Woohoo! No Way. Paid Gig!
Hi duh pookie readers, my recession news website fizzled when an unresolvable technical glitch caused the site to fall off of google search results completely. But that all worked out since I have now been hired to work as a paid blogger/reporter for Examiner.com. This is the umbrella company for the San Francisco Examiner. The site is a collection of local and national blogger/reporters contributing articles from areas of expertise. My last two articles have made “most read article” for the Bay Area. Yay! You can follow my progress with Examiner.com from my news page.
I will continue to write “new thoughts” at duh pookie, and look forward to hearing from you at either site!
I’ll Miss David Foster Wallace
I hope a brilliant baby was just born to take David Foster Wallace’s place in the world. If you have not read him, I’d recommend his essays from A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Read the essay on how every American wants to feel as though their life is a sitcom or reality TV show. He was light-years ahead of so many thinkers in his ability to size up and rip apart the overarching themes down to the smallest minutiae of any phenomenon. Here’s a brief excerpt of a commencement speech he gave:
…most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
I hope you found peace. We’ll miss you DFW.
New Pages –> Books and Music!
Hey y’all! I’ve added two new sections to the blog: one page on music I’m listening to, and one page on books from my library. These pages don’t allow comments, which is really a bummer since I would love to hear what you are listening to and reading! If you feel like sharing, send me email and I’ll add it to the pages manually. K? K!
What’s duhpookie?
Remember the video where you watch the basketball as it’s passed between ten to twelve people, some in white shirts, some in black? Remember how you were then told to go back and watch the video again — this time looking for the gorilla? Duhpookie is all about the gorilla. We’re working hard to think new thoughts. Recycle the old baggage. Try on new mental garments. Yeah… okay. You get it. (Even without the mental garments, I know.)
Anyway, these are your hardworking contributors:
Bobbie Wood (that’s me) is a trained child-wrastler who thinks too hard about politics, science, and technology.
Jason Wood (no relation) is a world-renowned history buff who’ll lead you through some of the most terrifying, unheard of moments in the past, pivotal points of departure that shaped our current state of affairs.
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