in a steel cage
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew a guy who referred to the vagina as the 'ha-ha hole'
obv. because it's polite for a child to refer to it as such but I like to imagine that when he finally entered one he chortled "ha-HA!"
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Lord hear my prayer
In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 July 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
woulda preferred "mothering hole" tbf
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
if anyone has a(n) LRB account i would gratefully read 3000 words trashing auster's latest
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
http://pastebin.com/ySP2zmRX
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 February 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
thanks!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 February 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Christ, Son of Author Paul Auster Charged in Fatal Overdose of 10-Month-Old Daughter
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 17 April 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
Also:
In 1996, Daniel Auster played a minor role in a notorious nightlife murder case, in which the club promoter Michael Alig and an accomplice killed and dismembered a drug dealer, Andrew Melendez, also known as Angel, and threw his body in the Hudson River.Mr. Auster pleaded guilty in 1998 to possessing $3,000 that had been stolen from Mr. Melendez and was sentenced to probation. He was not implicated in the killing.
Mr. Auster pleaded guilty in 1998 to possessing $3,000 that had been stolen from Mr. Melendez and was sentenced to probation. He was not implicated in the killing.
The article describes Siri Hustvedt as his stepmother, which would mean Lydia Davis is his mother.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 17 April 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
Yes to all of the above.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 April 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
I used to run into Paul Auster quite a bit in NYC and talked to him briefly sometimes and once even to SIri but the son never came up for some reason.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
Not sure if I understand the storySo this was not an accident?This guy killed a baby…on purpose?
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
Could have been some form of negligence. However you slice it, it’s not pretty.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
"Wouldn't stop cryin;, so I gave 'er just a little bit," maybe
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
Ugh
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
Maybe the baby was digging around and came across heroin and fentanyl and chewed on it. Whatever happened, so damn grim.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 18 April 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Dan is a childhood friend of one of my oldest and closest friends. We hung out a bunch of times before the Angel menendez thing. He seemed to have eventually turned his life around and my friend reconnected with him while his gf was pregnant with the baby. He was so happy.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
They spoke after her death and he was distraught. Said it was SIDS. This is all so horrific and fucked up. I think it was almost certainly accidental ingestion knowing what I know but fucking hell. And, yeah, his mom is Lydia D.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
many x-posts - I sincerely doubt it was on purpose. Horrific regardless though.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
I'm sorry. A social worker friend has told me about such things, but gratuitous speculation here, and an accident does seem more likely.
― dow, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 02:45 (two years ago) link
If his mom is Lydia Davis, why does the NYT article focus exclusively on his dad? (I had no idea that Davis and Auster had been married, though I see it was brief.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
Because Auster is more famous than Davis, I imagine.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
Yes.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
But still.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
Just realized I wrote Menendez but obv meant Melendez. Yeah I assume because he’s more famous. Also - he’s written characters that are very obviously based on him and it’s been a very fraught relationship from what I can tell so maybe that’s why? And no need for sorries. I haven’t seen the guy since the late 90s and then only socially etc. It’s just an awful situation and my friend is so upset. I can’t stop thinking about it though. It’s just horrific.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 07:15 (two years ago) link
Daniel Auster is dead of an overdose:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/nyregion/daniel-auster-dead-arrest-overdose.html
― o. nate, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
awful
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah. The details surrounding it are fucking awful too but not anything I could/would share. Just unimaginably tragic.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link