david foster wallace, all the kids want to be like david foster wallace. you have to be david foster wallace to be like david foster wallace. and food writing and i have a monthly column which is essays with recipes in a british magazine. and food-writing is a genre i have incredible respect for it shares with art-writing actually a problem of translation, by which i mean again, i was talking about this at dinner. my hosts were kind enough to let me sit out a bit earlier. there's some way in which wordiness is incommen -- the sa as the senses of what you're saying and the distribution of that immediate process into thought processes, memories, pleasure, receptive and so on. and it's very difficult without embarrassment to actually find forms of record. i mean, i prefaced my book on rembrandt where i thought about it a lot and this book is like a million pages long and i got over my problems over with words but i did preface by paul valerie's remark that one should apologize about one's painting. the case with food-writing, too, i think, does food-writing ha

i think one answer may be found in a commencement address that was given by the late david foster wallaceanyon college in ohio. david foster wallace was a novelist and academic. as he addressed fresh-faced graduates, he said the key to life is not who you are but who you worship. in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheist. everybody worships. the only choice we get is what to worship. if you worship money and things, then you will never have enough. worship your intellect being seen as smart, and you will end up feeling stupid. a fraud. always on the edge of being found out. worship your own body and sexual allure and you'll always feel ugly. judging by the pictures that have come out, it's hard not to assume that the center of anthony weiner's worship was anthony weiner. maybe he needs to worship someone else. thanks for watching, dylan ratigan is here with the smartest take on the economy. dylan? >> i don't know whether today's take will be on the economy but i hope it is smart. i appreciate the hand off and the show starts right now. the big st