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Gen Xfest and the Better Suit Industrial Complex
I’m still within the gravitational pull of CloudFest 2026 Gen Xfest 2026, which is always a dangerous thing—but not bad for the bavablog post count!
At the same time I’ve been reading [[Shadow Ticket]] by [[Thomas Pynchon]], and somewhere between the booths, the buzzwords, and the frank and beans, the two started bleeding into one another.
Because what I’m seeing at Gen XFest—and […]
https://bavatuesdays.com/gen-xfest-and-the-better-suit-industrial-complex/
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About a third of the way into #ShadowTicket by #ThomasPynchon, and it's really galloping.
I'm kind of floored I love it so very much. It's very funny, and sly and oblique about reminding us of the violence, messiness, and tangled ironies of American history that they don't teach about in high school.
The jokes, pacing and so on, the writing in the small -- the dude still Has It. It may not be TRP's best novel, but dang, it's an instant classic and one of the Great American Novels, even so.