Haricuts

In which we return to the world of Caspar, Keeper of the Treasure, etc., but this time from a different set of eyes, reliving the events of that fateful “Hump Day” from a blissfully pre-pandemic time when the news had time and space for the misadventures of Florida Man and Florida Woman... Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which I bring you into the world of Caspar, Keeper of the Treasure, Prince of the Desert, sole purveyor of all he, uhm, purveys, until one fated Wednesday — a “Hump Day” — that cannot be forgotten once you’ve heard it. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/haricuts/message

In which we finally conclude our Caribbean Luxury Cruise with David Foster Wallace, involving a drinking game where we drink with each of the 48 footnotes in an action-packed last day of minute-by-minute managed activities, featuring losing at chess to a 9-year-old girl, winning at decktop Ping Pong over a 26-year-old pro, getting punched in the eye, almost throwing up caviar at old ladies, enduring an anecdote on the near-fatal suction powers of the Vacuum Sewage System, and a hypnosis session that generates a trance in DFW about returning to reality, very much the way that reading his essay aloud has been itself, for me, an epic Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we spend a morning with David Foster Wallace docked in port on deck 12 of the m.v. Nadir, reflecting on the sky, the sea, the transformation of passengers into American bovine tourists, the deep lie of the promise to sate the Insatiable Infant within us, and the juxtaposition of all of that with the levels of American bovine stupidity in the midst of a global pandemic. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we take an interlude with David Foster Wallace to reflect on the differences in the seas and sands of the Caribbean, and of life, and the meaningful distinction between beauty and prettiness, and on the expense of stillness in the middle of a global pandemic. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we take respite from being stuck inside during a global pandemic to go on a cruise with David Foster Wallace where ... we find ourselves stuck inside a cabin in a cruise ship with DFW, who proceeds to observe, with curiosity and fascination, everything in the cabin, including an existential rumination on vacuum sewage systems. Comments welcome at www.anchor.fm/haricuts or at instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we immerse ourselves in the luxury of shipboard life on board the m.v. Nadir (nee Zenith) with David Foster Wallace, and end up ruminating on the meaning of hospitality that has a sinister anal-retention to it, and on the front-line nature of service work in the midst of a global pandemic. Comments welcome on anchor.fm/haricuts or on instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which DFW finally has a sunny day on deck but has to involve, in DFW style, a dive into matters concerning advertising, essays, essaymercials, ads as fundamentally non-art, and the sinister nature of ads that pretend to be art. Also featuring a footnote on the fucking mess that is the Professional Smile. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we experience the first two days of sailing on a luxury Caribbean cruise with David Foster Wallace, involving pitching, rolling, romance, nausea, Table 64, and the Anti-Mona Alliance. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we finally, finally, after 5 long sections and 23 pages and 26 footnotes, finally we set sail aboard the m.v Nadir (nee Zenith) on a 7-Night Caribbean Luxury Cruise with David Foster Wallace. Subscribe and leave a comment at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we embark, in storytelling mode and present-tense, with David Foster Wallace, as he boards a luxury Caribbean cruise in 1996, along the way reflecting on operatic infants, correlations between guilt and self-indulgence, and that rarity: the footnote that DFW decided not to write. Comments welcome at anchor.fm/haricuts or instagram.com/haritellastory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

In which we take respite from a global pandemic to check in with David Foster Wallace in 1996, on a luxury Caribbean cruise, pondering death, birth, advertising, the puzzle over his use of the word "preterite," and finding unexpected basic human decency in NYC or Boston. If you know what DFW means by "preterite workers" drop me a voice message on anchor.fm/haricuts or find me on instagram.com/haritellastory and of course, #StaySafe #StayHome #StayHealthy #StayHuman --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

Easter during a global pandemic, and I light candles for the dead and the living among us, raise a glass of bourbon to us all. Buckle up folks, as shit gets real, David Foster Wallace-style: we dive headlong into serious themes of despair in section 3 of his essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" -- and to think it all started out as a luxury cruise! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

It's still a global pandemic! Most of us are still stuck inside, and so I continue with episode 2 of this pandemic season of HariCuts with the next section of David Foster Wallace's 1996 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." Now featuring my own commentary as HariNotes(tm) at the end. Stay safe. Stay home. Stay healthy. Stay human. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

It's a global pandemic! We are all stuck inside, and we miss being outside, but there's one place out there where we all definitely don't want to be right now: that's right, cruise ships. Cruise ships are terrible things, cruise lines are terrible companies, and the people that run them are terrible people. But that's not my rant to make -- that's actually a rant much better said by one of my favorite writers: David Foster Wallace, in his 1996 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." So, to start my podcast off again after a very long hiatus, I am going to dabble in audiobook style podcasting and bring you DFW's classic essay, mixed in with my own commentary. Enjoy! Stay safe. Stay home. Stay healthy. Stay human. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/haricuts/message

A story from South India, involving a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus, a brave chicken, and a sleepy police station. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/haricuts/message