>I sorta fell off with Kool Keith outside of guest appearances
>and a few cuts here & there after Ultramagnetic.
>
>I think I owned Lost In Space for a minute but it fell out of
>my possession in the hazy college days fairly quickly, someone
>else bumped Dr Octagon enough that I didn't feel the need to
>buy it.

I won't lie, I bumped the shit out of Dr. Octagon junior year of college. That album put me firmly in the "Kool Keith is the TRUTH!" camp. His highest point as a solo artist was probably 1998/99, with the Dr. Dooom/Lost in Space combo. I was with Keith until about the "Spankmaster" album. That was about 2001/2002. Dude just lacked quality control after that. I know the e-homie Adwhizz is a fan of work from that era.

>I don't recommend reading Joyce to anyone I actually like
>though, in fact I'm really not sure I can say I read every
>page to full efforts of comprehension.
>
>Like some of the technical whaling excursion chapters in Moby
>Dick, there may have been a bit of skimming going on.

I haven't gotten around to reading Moby Dick, mostly for this reason. Apparently it's one of the top five books ever written in the English language, but I'm not interested in the whaling excursion stuff.

>I see it on the top of every literary list for last century &
>it just feels like something pompous literature bores say is
>the best without actually arriving at the idea through their
>own non-invested reading pleasure.
>
>Like the end of a particularly brutal cross-country race, I
>was pained & miserable much of the time I was actually doing
>it but I guess there's some feeling of accomplishment after
>the fact.
>
>I can't imagine trying to read a book like that now while
>having to go to work every day & relax/have fun in the
>interim, just too much of a chore.
>
>The most I'll do Joyce-related right now would probably be
>that annual Ulysses/Bloomsday pub crawl if by some stroke of
>magic/destiny I happened to be in Dublin with time to kill
>during the time of its happening.

And again, you just outlined just about every reason that I'm hesitant to pick anything up by him. I need to relax my mind after work and on weekends, not put it through an egg-beater.

Now, where's the James Joyce alias?