19 August 2001

Early morning stack of newspapers on Beacon Street.

Ernest Hemingway reading from the manuscript of Islands in the Stream, which was published after he killed himself by firing a shotgun at his head. That has always made me sad. I learned recently that he underwent massive electroshock therapy at the Mayo Clinic in Florida a couple weeks before his suicide.

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Pictures from the Radiohead concert on Tuesday. They wouldn’t let me take my camera into the show, but I got some good shots of people waiting in the line. There’s a very decent article on the band in this month’s paper issue of The New Yorker.

Cafe Pamplona, Cambridge

“Jacob Berkman taught me to love.” Get yours today.

Hunter S. Thompson insists that, in the future, TV news will be delivered by topless women. And on the state of the NASDAQ: Half the people you know will declare Bankruptcy or turn to Prostitution for rent money. That is what they mean by “Crash.”