R.I.P. - Kurt Vonnegut
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- JerseyRaindog0
you have every right to be gloomy, jersey! gloom away, kid.
paraselene
(Apr 12 07, 03:53)Kid?!
I'm 37! With my own kid to call Kid!
God, I DO have every right to be gloomy don't I.
- paraselene0
heh. that was just a term of endearment. you know, like maybe i'm babe ruth and you're blue cos joe dimaggio just died and i come out of the stadium and give you my mitt and tell you to chin up, kid, it ain't the end of the world and then i swagger off into the mozzie-filled twilit night and shake my head at the futility of it all and why-oh-why do the young ones have to see such sadness, such sadness...
*weeps
**but in a swaggering, manly, baseball kind of way
- nosaj0
His novels made many bus rides to school tolerable.
- Concrete0
superbly justified, para.
*claps
;)
- walkman0
this morning on the CBC radio show 'The Current' they mentioned his death and talked of a recent interview he held with a cbc reporter about his new book....
they play a snippet of the interview here
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/med…you'll have to skip ahead to 20 minute mark in this real audio file.
it's worth it - to hear his latest concerns.
the interviewer - at the end - says thank you to Kurt and he replies "Go jump in a lake."
:) - thanks again Kurt!
- canuck0
werd, that mofo knew how to write.
respect.
- walkman0
+
- material-10
*pours some 40oz on the sidewalk
- Rodimus790
Kurt got unstuck in time. so it goes.
- JerseyRaindog0
Nice para.
But what's Baseball and who's Joe DiMaggio?
- ender790
man, that sucks. rip.
- harlequino0
Wow, awful sad. Read all his books in high school and college.
He lived a long time for a man who smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes.
So it goes...
- Rand0
I will miss him
- barbtastic0
damn :(
- mayo0
R.I.P.
...but i hated Slaughterhouse Five so badly i refuse to read any of his other books.
- subversve0
this thread just ruined my night :(
r.i.p.
- PonyBoy0
i don't know shit about the fella nor his writing... but I enjoyed saying his last name
- milo0
this thread just ruined my night :(
r.i.p.---
Upsetting start to my day too...
Goodbye Kurt - see you down the blue tunnel ; )
- bolus0
shit, rip
- paraselene0
goodbye, mr. vonnegut.
:(
just finished a man without a country and thought it was a brilliant political swansong, full of all his thoughts on the current political situation in the u.s.
a great read, i highly recommend it.
r.i.p.