Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions

Here's a link to a speech by the writer David Foster Wallace, who died recently, reflecting on the difficulties of daily life and 'making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head'. Up till now I have never read anything by Wallace, but having read this I plan to.

Sadly, Wallace did suicide.

But beautiful

I’ve just finished reading Geoff Dyer’s ‘But beautiful’ and kept thinking about this amazing pic as I read.