Status Updates From White Noise

1. Station wagons, stuff, existential dread.
2. Meet the family. Everyone’s strange and death lingers.
3. Academia is so impressed with itself that Elvis and Hitler Studies feel profound.
4. Career boost? Change your name, wear dark glasses, gain weight, become more Hitler-like. Learn German later.

Everyone’s smart. Everyone’s ridiculous.

The airborne toxic event. Really great seeing this family dynamic we’ve learnt so much about and how it bends to this disaster. Delayed symptoms. Description of black cloud. Heinrich gleeful.

I am doing the audiobook and there is only one recording available and it’s really bad. Ill be saving this one to read in print

More back-and-forth between Jack and Heinrich. All really good. Babette appears on TV.

It was her all right, the face, the hair, the way she blinks in rapid twos and threes. I'd seen her just an hour ago, eating eggs, but her appearance on the screen made me think of her as some distant figure from the past, some ex-wife and absentee mother, a walker in the mists of the dead. If she was not dead, was I?

Bee’s presence makes them all self conscious.