2000nov29. Randy Rothman also has a delightful piece in the new McSweeney’s (#5). I still have to figure out that Mr. Squishy article. Is there some kind of McSweeney’s forum online? I mean, maybe I could figure it out myself, but I was in a hurry (I was going on vacation and didn’t want to drag the book along) so I figured I could just cut through all of the marketing mumbo-jumbo and the character development and WHOOPS that was a big mistake because it had one of those fucking David Foster Wallace temporal shift endings, like it’s some kind of test just to make sure you absorbed, that you were breathing the entire article instead of skimming it like I was because I was going on vacation. I went to Mexico. I mean, I walked in with my friends. We walked right over that border. I wanted to take a lot of pictures of the border signs and border patrol but it all happened so fast and I figured I could do it on the way back but they have an entirely different way to exit Mexico because they don’t want people getting mixed up, trading illegal drugs for legal money, or people hiding other people in bags or something. I turned around at one point, there was this small , two foot gap between two buildings and sure enough, there was a border patrol agent just standing there. You couldn’t just wall it in, you’ve got this guy standing there 24/7, I guess. I wonder what his job description looks like. Wall Gap Protector.
