but today's entry [link disabled] (yesterday's here, but he's in Minnesota where it's still Aug. 1) is one of the best long blog entries I've read, even if you aren't a sports fan (although it helps). Anyway, that's not why I posted another entry. I had a quote I wanted to share:

"I don't know why, whenever confronted by human stupidity, I feel personally to blame. Maybe being the eldest child is a disease I'll never shake."

Allan Gurganus, from Plays Well with Others

This is a really great book, though if you are squeamish about reading sex scenes at all, this is not the book for you. However, unlike so many books, the sex in this one is crucial to the story line -- chronicling, in a funny and heartbreaking way, how the narrator manages to be the only one of his artist friends who does not die when AIDS first hits New York. There are also a couple of paragraphs where the narrator takes a teaching job at a thinly disguised Sarah Lawrence (Gurganus has been affiliated with SLC from time to time) that are dead-on and absolutely hysterical. I want to write like this so badly. Well not exactly like this, but with this sort of emotional effect and strength of voice. The voice itself will be my own. At least it's supposed to be.