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video of Jonathan Franzen "hooping it up"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N7Duq-rFc&feature=relat...
buff ape new version
  02/22/12
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charcoal location
  02/22/12
9:06 -- Franzen spastically shoots and bricks hilariously 1...
beady-eyed antidepressant drug
  02/22/12
man even the first sentence out of his mouth was absurd
Arousing resort stock car
  02/22/12
cr. the woman keeps looking more and more disturbed as th...
beady-eyed antidepressant drug
  02/22/12
just threw up in my mouth a lot
purple out-of-control crackhouse roommate
  02/22/12
I found the Corrections to be a lot of fun. I can't get thro...
Racy ticket booth telephone
  02/22/12
rate Franzen's jump shot, bro
beady-eyed antidepressant drug
  02/22/12
I'm not watching the entire video. He seems like a miserable...
Racy ticket booth telephone
  02/22/12
u jelly
beady-eyed antidepressant drug
  02/22/12
did u try Freedom? I like the Corrections fine but haven't c...
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Arousing resort stock car
  02/23/12
Thanks for sharing. The picture of the room is astonishing ...
Emerald Area
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Arousing resort stock car
  02/23/12
that comment was posted by Franzen
buff ape new version
  02/23/12
how someone can write a comment like this and not eat a bull...
bronze idiotic school
  01/20/13
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. WHY DOES THIS PERSON EXIST. IS GOD PLAYIN...
Domesticated cerebral skinny woman filthpig
  02/23/12
franzen often says he was popular in high school, i have a h...
Arousing resort stock car
  02/23/12
Credited, one look at his jump shot in gym class would have ...
heady mustard point
  02/23/12
he looks like he wasn't allowed outside as a child, i'm not ...
Arousing resort stock car
  02/23/12
this is the greatest thing about Franzen. he is an egotist. ...
buff ape new version
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Grizzly selfie
  02/25/12
its crazy how unlikable he is
copper corner
  02/25/12
cr
carmine boyish mediation regret
  05/17/12
*writes a book about a basketball player* *cannot even boun...
buff ape new version
  02/25/12
U mad Chabon?
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Arousing resort stock car
  03/31/12
god fucking damn it
lime multi-colored cruise ship death wish
  03/31/12
great american novelist
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Mint lay
  10/26/12
goddamn u franzen
buff ape new version
  10/26/12
Absolutely astonished at how much I don't like him
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Red Marketing Idea
  11/20/12
i don't understand franzen's self-concept, how he sees himse...
Red Marketing Idea
  11/20/12
how DOES he see himself?
Domesticated cerebral skinny woman filthpig
  01/13/13
highly intellectual, "voice of a generation" for s...
carmine boyish mediation regret
  01/13/13
Really dont like that guy
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Arousing resort stock car
  01/20/13
is franzen a crypto racist? i don't have his books in front ...
thirsty jet station masturbator
  01/20/13
At the same time, one strongly senses that the descriptions ...
Impertinent pea-brained garrison
  02/12/13
BOOOOOOOOOO!!!! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!! C'mon guys let's drown h...
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passionate market nowag
  02/24/17
lmao, forgot how funny this video is
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  02/24/17
lol wtf get off the court son
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Date: February 22nd, 2012 12:13 PM
Author: buff ape new version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1N7Duq-rFc&feature=related

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 12:14 PM
Author: charcoal location



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Date: February 22nd, 2012 10:58 PM
Author: beady-eyed antidepressant drug

9:06 -- Franzen spastically shoots and bricks hilariously

11:50 -- Franzen still dribbling his basketball down the streets of Manhattan

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 10:59 PM
Author: Arousing resort stock car

man even the first sentence out of his mouth was absurd

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:05 PM
Author: beady-eyed antidepressant drug

cr.

the woman keeps looking more and more disturbed as the interview goes on. Franzen refuses to make eye contact with her. she stares quizically during his meandering disquisitions with an expression that seems to ask "who is this jackass?"

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:03 PM
Author: purple out-of-control crackhouse roommate

just threw up in my mouth a lot

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:04 PM
Author: Racy ticket booth telephone

I found the Corrections to be a lot of fun. I can't get through his latest book. Just not that interesting.



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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:05 PM
Author: beady-eyed antidepressant drug

rate Franzen's jump shot, bro

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:06 PM
Author: Racy ticket booth telephone

I'm not watching the entire video. He seems like a miserable person.

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Date: February 22nd, 2012 11:08 PM
Author: beady-eyed antidepressant drug

u jelly

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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:30 PM
Author: vivacious theatre gaming laptop

did u try Freedom? I like the Corrections fine but haven't checked out either of those



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Date: February 23rd, 2012 5:32 AM
Author: Arousing resort stock car



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Date: February 23rd, 2012 7:05 AM
Author: Emerald Area

Thanks for sharing.

The picture of the room is astonishing but it really explains, no words needed, the depths Franzen is reaching in his books. I also I like his ability to dwell in the present moment (especially dialogues between characters but other situations too) - I think those are the most attractive and "alive" parts in a book - and this room seems to give him the absolute silence - in every sense - to listen patiently to those frail moments and write them so perceptively.

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Date: February 23rd, 2012 6:21 PM
Author: Arousing resort stock car



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Date: February 23rd, 2012 9:52 PM
Author: buff ape new version

that comment was posted by Franzen

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Date: January 20th, 2013 4:06 AM
Author: bronze idiotic school

how someone can write a comment like this and not eat a bullet immediately after is a mystery to me

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Date: February 23rd, 2012 9:55 PM
Author: Domesticated cerebral skinny woman filthpig

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. WHY DOES THIS PERSON EXIST. IS GOD PLAYING A JOKE ON US.

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Date: February 23rd, 2012 10:02 PM
Author: Arousing resort stock car

franzen often says he was popular in high school, i have a hard time believing it with a jump shot like that

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Date: February 23rd, 2012 10:07 PM
Author: heady mustard point

Credited, one look at his jump shot in gym class would have killed any attraction a girl might have had for him and all respect from bros.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#20039555)



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Date: February 23rd, 2012 10:08 PM
Author: Arousing resort stock car

he looks like he wasn't allowed outside as a child, i'm not kidding

i'm no athlete but i can shoot a basketball without looking like an alien

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#20039565)



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Date: February 23rd, 2012 10:13 PM
Author: buff ape new version

this is the greatest thing about Franzen. he is an egotist. in this video he trashes his ex-wife, basically saying that they divorced because she was jealous of his writing ability. lmao.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#20039620)



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Date: February 24th, 2017 9:56 AM
Author: Arousing resort stock car



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Date: February 25th, 2012 2:02 AM
Author: Grizzly selfie



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Date: February 25th, 2012 2:21 AM
Author: copper corner

its crazy how unlikable he is

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Date: May 17th, 2012 12:33 AM
Author: carmine boyish mediation regret

cr

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Date: February 25th, 2012 2:23 AM
Author: buff ape new version

*writes a book about a basketball player*

*cannot even bounce a basketball*

*is Franzen*

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Date: February 12th, 2013 5:26 PM
Author: jade appetizing liquid oxygen stead

U mad Chabon?

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Date: March 31st, 2012 3:47 AM
Author: Arousing resort stock car



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Date: March 31st, 2012 5:19 AM
Author: lime multi-colored cruise ship death wish

god fucking damn it

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Date: October 26th, 2012 3:34 AM
Author: Arousing resort stock car

great american novelist

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Date: October 26th, 2012 3:34 AM
Author: Mint lay



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Date: October 26th, 2012 3:41 AM
Author: buff ape new version

goddamn u franzen

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Date: November 20th, 2012 10:44 PM
Author: Alcoholic Carnelian Bawdyhouse

Absolutely astonished at how much I don't like him

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Date: November 20th, 2012 10:48 PM
Author: Red Marketing Idea



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Date: November 20th, 2012 10:49 PM
Author: Red Marketing Idea

i don't understand franzen's self-concept, how he sees himself. i hate his books, but i'm fascinated by him psychologically.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#22086688)



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Date: January 13th, 2013 5:49 PM
Author: Domesticated cerebral skinny woman filthpig

how DOES he see himself?

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Date: January 13th, 2013 5:51 PM
Author: carmine boyish mediation regret

highly intellectual, "voice of a generation" for seattle/SF/brooklyn latte \-sippers

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Date: January 19th, 2013 9:58 PM
Author: Alcoholic Carnelian Bawdyhouse

Really dont like that guy

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Date: January 20th, 2013 4:11 AM
Author: Arousing resort stock car



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Date: January 20th, 2013 4:54 AM
Author: thirsty jet station masturbator

is franzen a crypto racist? i don't have his books in front of me, but i was thinking about this recently.

in The Corrections there is a strange group of passages where the narrator seems to ridicule the work of the woman who grows fresh vegetable gardens w/ inner-city black kids. he basically says: "these kids are too fucking stupid to appreciate middle class values, and this person doesn't realize the futility of her work." then he turns her into one of the most pathetic, debased characters in modern fiction, whose downfall it is suggested is brought about by her essential naivete (referring back to her judgment re: the inner city kids).

then in Freedom, there is the protagonist's father, Ray, a wealthy lawyer who defends indigent minorities. he is portrayed as massively condescending and hateful towards his clients - though at the same time explaining to his daughter that they are innocent victims of the system. his minority clients are characterized as buffoons, whom Ray, the prosecutor, and the Judge (all white) cannot help joining together to laugh at in one scene. confusingly, the novel uses, for this character's final redemption, the image of dozens of these black people and their families, heads bowed, filing silently and reverently into the *BACK* (the symbolism) of the church at his funeral - like they are straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird.

the elite east coast lawyer is glorified and the blacks are kept firmly in their place, as objects of charity that is an instrument for self-aggrandizement of the white elites.

his portrayal of the Indian girl in Freedom has also been called racist, for being so laughably 1-dimensional.

these are the only minorities in any of his books.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#22466947)



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Date: February 12th, 2013 5:38 PM
Author: Impertinent pea-brained garrison

At the same time, one strongly senses that the descriptions of the Indian girl in Freedom are Franzen just transcribing one of his own obsessive imperialist pedo-crushes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#22624538)



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Date: January 31st, 2013 8:44 PM
Author: carmine boyish mediation regret

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

C'mon guys let's drown him out

BOOOOOOOOO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1880358&forum_id=2Ã#22544225)



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Date: February 12th, 2013 5:13 PM
Author: Alcoholic Carnelian Bawdyhouse



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Date: November 18th, 2014 7:31 AM
Author: Plum Digit Ratio



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:25 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Messiness



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Date: February 24th, 2017 9:52 AM
Author: passionate market nowag



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Date: February 24th, 2017 10:37 AM
Author: jade appetizing liquid oxygen stead

lmao, forgot how funny this video is

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Date: February 24th, 2017 10:43 AM
Author: Aromatic Ruddy Incel

lol wtf get off the court son

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Date: December 7th, 2021 8:08 PM
Author: passionate market nowag



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Date: June 22nd, 2024 9:46 PM
Author: charismatic center hunting ground



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Date: February 26th, 2026 6:45 PM
Author: Judas Jones



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