Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings.



upsimba:

peemsterandhalsadick:

wolfthatdoesntbite:

anticonfluentialist:

SEVERAL weeks ago, a plastic surgeon in Virginia started a media frenzy when he publicized a new procedure that he said could help people look younger when they appear on Skype and other video chat services. He named the surgery the FaceTime Face-Lift, after the popular iPhone feature.

“People don’t come in asking for a FaceTime Face-Lift per se,” the surgeon, Dr. Robert K. Sigal, of the Austin-Weston Center for Cosmetic Surgery in Reston, Va., said in a YouTube video. “What they’ll say is that ‘I don’t like the way I look when I’m video chatting.’ ”

[…] Roughly a quarter of the 100 face-lift patients he has a year cited the way they look on webcams as a reason for going under the knife, he said, including his own wife. Dr. Malcolm Z. Roth, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, said that other plastic surgeons had heard similar concerns.

David Foster Wallace is making his “I told you so” face. (Infinite Jest, p. 144-151)

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Jesus DFW is my favorite.

DFW

DFW was some kind of prophet I promise you. 

Great, so I can expect my HD mask any day now?

8:39 pm, reblogged by brevetcaptain
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  1. intercats reblogged this from year-of-glad and added:
    …omg
  2. year-of-glad reblogged this from mario-incandenza and added:
    HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT DAVID IT’S THE FALL OF VIDEOPHONY ALL OVER AGAIN
  3. mysticetouslyblunt reblogged this from magical-markers
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  5. mario-incandenza reblogged this from honeybadgerchild
  6. 17steps reblogged this from honeybadgerchild and added:
    I want this to be true so badly that I’m not going to do even an inch of research. I am not clicking a single one of...
  7. tomefirst reblogged this from irunfrombears and added:
    Dave, o profeta.
  8. amysfreakshow reblogged this from goebel
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  11. meeerie reblogged this from archaiclogical
  12. il--chiaroscuro reblogged this from amammalsnotebook
  13. jackwimberlymustdie reblogged this from brevetcaptain and added:
    This is just a little bit creepy
  14. archaiclogical reblogged this from upsimba
  15. goebel reblogged this from dressedforthehbomb
  16. irunfrombears reblogged this from incandenza and added:
    Wow. Prophet DFW.
  17. halcyonhours reblogged this from emiisstrange and added:
    After reading the first line I imagined DFW wearing Abraham’s tunic, shining and saying “toldja”
  18. incandenza reblogged this from crsenex and added:
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
  19. dressedforthehbomb reblogged this from emiisstrange and added:
    Can I just say that the very second I saw this, I immediately thought of that chapter in Infinite Jest?
  20. emiisstrange reblogged this from brevetcaptain and added:
    Oh Dave
  21. your-blue-mind reblogged this from upsimba
  22. crsenex reblogged this from upsimba and added:
    aw the dfw fandom awakens
  23. scandiknavery reblogged this from upsimba
  24. brevetcaptain reblogged this from upsimba and added:
    Great, so I can expect my HD mask any day now?
  25. upsimba reblogged this from amammalsnotebook and added:
    DFW was some kind of prophet I promise you.
  26. amammalsnotebook reblogged this from peemsterandhalsadick