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[Doc]

That is painful, but you know what's painfuller?  Watching that same someone represent himself in a divorce lawsuit.  The blue suit, the comic persona not masking the pain inside, the ex-wife's lawyer getting in successful one-liners about whether his testimony is a stand-up routine.  I saw that once and I never want to see it again.

The Saddest Thing.

[lprkn]

That is painful, but you know what's painfuller?  Watching that same someone represent himself in a divorce lawsuit.  The blue suit, the comic persona not masking the pain inside, the ex-wife's lawyer getting in successful one-liners about whether his testimony is a stand-up routine.  I saw that once and I never want to see it again.

In what capacity where you there? The way I see it, you were either the judge, the bailiff, or the ex-wife's new squeeze.

[theinevitable]

"huh, I'm presiding over this divorce case coming up... I'd better go see his stand-up routine in advance, just to be prepared."

[Dangermoose]

In what capacity where you there? The way I see it, you were either the judge, the bailiff, or the ex-wife's new squeeze.

I was a student intern, kind of being a bailiff, rolling tape on the debacle.  I actually witnessed several hearings with this guy, each one sadder than the last.  See, at the start, he had a lawyer.  Then the money ran out.  For a while, he would sort of maintain his "funnyman" demeanor, as though he was bombing in some smoky club instead of a courtroom.  But in the last hearing I saw, he cried.

I'm serious, this was not cool.

[Turbo Ninja]

You can judge this book by its cover.

[Arachno-capitalist]

You can judge this book by its cover.

Thanks for that 30 minute diversion into learning about PS disasters.

[chuanoplast]

Also, you can totally judge a book by its cover.  I like those new Penguin classics with the indie cartoonists doing the covers.  That cover says to me "here's a dusty bit of old literature that we think the hip grad student set might like" and that right there is a sale.  Also 60s and 70s paperbacks.  All of them.

I bought Gravity's Rainbow because it had a cool rocketship diagram on the cover. Damn you Penguin, what with all your crazy covers.

[colmore]

V and The Crying of Lot 49 aren't such chores.

[chuanoplast]

Those two are in the "Three easiest Pynchon books to read" list.

[Turbo Ninja]

I bought Gravity's Rainbow because it had a cool rocketship diagram on the cover. Damn you Penguin, what with all your crazy covers.

I picked up a new Dharma Bums because it had Japhy and Ray rendered as cartoon dogs.