Comments on: Vonnegut is old cool

By: happycat

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:00:42 +0000

Met Vonnegut once. Fortunately had read everything he had written many times over before then. Love him dearly, may he rest in peace. Every day I work to his ideals, or what I understand them to be from moment to moment.

Theodore Sturgeon as well. I’m avid. Sigh.

By: yooking

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:22:10 +0000

looool very funny, how can do you say? .-= yooking´s last blog ..Hedefi Bombala =-.

By: Adam

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:52:23 +0000

Douglas Adams gives some astonishingly good advice… we were talking about him just the other night. A fine choice.

By: Tia

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:43:53 +0000

the person probably most responsible for the way I’ve grown up, and sort of a surrogate uncle or parent, is Douglas Adams. When i finally got around to reading The Salmon of Doubt i was depressed or days. Thankfully, i can always go back to his books whenever I’m feeling particularly depressed, of could, if i hadn’t lent them out.

By: Tia

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:16:05 +0000

i was waiting for somebody to mention Holden.

Salinger’s death was unfortunate, but we might get to see some post-mortem books.

By: Ben

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:10 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siikXBLTd8s

Me in action in the last few minutes. At 4:24 I’m getting out of the truck and then it is me in the foreground with the hose making swirly patterns with foam
.-= Ben´s last blog ..A bin for sleeping =-.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:26:15 +0000

I had some extra time today and decided to read some of the Wikipedia article on Vonnegut. But biographies tend to raise more questions for me than they answer. They dwell on the relevant, and my brain always seems more interested in the tangential. Like, I wish we knew why his mother committed suicide on Mother's Day. I hope he wasn't an unappreciative son. (Maybe he didn't give her any Mother's Day presents because she acted like an *.) .-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #651 =-.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:25 +0000

Breakfast of Champions pretty much *is* my Bible. As far as books go. If I have to get sworn in for anything I'm going to see if I can get them to swear me in on a vinyl copy of Dark Side of the Moon. .-= The Great Joe Bivins´s last blog ..I Give You...Acoustafuckit: Part Deux! =-.

By: Glenn Pott

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:48:38 +0000

I never thought of Mr Vonnegut as a relative, though perhaps I might have if I had discovered him younger.
He was, however, the only “celebrity” to have ever made me cry on their death. I think he could have had a calming influence on the whole world if he had been around a few more years.
Nevertheless, I believe he has stated somewhere, he has said everything he had to say. I know that he taught me more about how I should try to live than the bible ever did, and that he made me a better person.
I still miss him greatly.

By: Brandy

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:30:31 +0000

Lol at Ronald Reagan. You already named my fictional choice, though, in Mr. Atticus Finch.

By: Brandy

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Handsome indeed. There was some “controversy” after his death about whether he hid his African American ancestry because he was light skinned. It seems that it was an open secret during his life.

By: Seraphine

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:42:23 +0000

i don't have any 'media' grandparents. i'm not even sure whom i could nominate. how old is stephen king? .-= Seraphine´s last blog ..Fountaingrove Winery: Part 2 =-.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:26:59 +0000

Thanks! ‘Fraid I can’t take credit for it, though… it’s from the Almanac of Words at Play (which I recommend to every punster).

http://www.amazon.com/Almanac-Words-at-Play/dp/B001MVB438/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266884646&sr=8-5
.-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #645 =-.

By: sitting pugs

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:13:52 +0000

Good kind of stalking indeed. .-= sitting pugs´s last blog ..Off Topic: Today’s Verse 37 =-.

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:09:39 +0000

I could watch PSAs all day… we used to have some classics in the UK, about playing on railway tracks, and not sniffing solvents… and how to cross the road… lately though they’ve all been about viruses and Nigerian banking scams. The material just isn’t as good.

I’d quite like to see ones about things that make a little but important difference… ‘Tie your shoe laces’, ‘Hair products, the dangers of…’, that sort of thing.

By: McClackers

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:09:10 +0000

It’s a good thing I met you first then!

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:05:40 +0000

You’ve raised a really good point there, Ben… I mean how many times have people met a ‘celebrity’ in real life only to find them disappointing? Rockstars who are cooler in song than in person, stand up comedians who just aren’ funny…

Never meet your idols… or distant relations…

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:03:25 +0000

>Rename Golfwidow, ‘Black Widow of media relationships’.

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:02:31 +0000

You really are on form with the puns! Top work, soldier.

By: Adam

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:10 +0000

Again. I realise how close that is to the type of relationship stalkers have with the objcet of their attention…

But hey, it’s a good type of stalking, right?

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:49:49 +0000

You've put this thing of Vonnegut drawing assholes as asterisks in my head. There's this PSA about steroid use that uses the slogan "Don't be an *" which is much funnier now. .-= The Great Joe Bivins´s last blog ..I Give You...Acoustafuckit: Part Deux! =-.

By: Ben

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:37:01 +0000

I honestly can’t say I relate to this at all. I grew up with out much tv or radio in my younger years.
Firstly it was because I wasn’t allowed to watch tv and the only radio station I was allowed to listen to was an oldies station.
Then it was because I just didn’t give a shit about what I heard or saw thru various forms of media.
Go teenage angst YEAH!

I guess the closest I could get is who I would trust as a reporter. Even then, now I am cynical and realise that they work for an agency which would require them to have a certain p.o.v.
.-= Ben´s last blog ..Frog =-.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:42:13 +0000

Did you hear the one about the man whose colon was removed, and now he's not scared of anything because he has no asterisk? .-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #643 =-.

By: golfwidow

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:24:13 +0000

My media grandfather, Harry Reasoner, died years ago. After him, I had Peter Jennings, who was my media boyfriend, but he died too. I just think I'm bad luck. .-= golfwidow´s last blog ..getting to know you 2010 =-.

By: sitting pugs

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:14:08 +0000

Love the drawing, love the post and your concept of “media relation.” It’s like a having a real, imaginary friend. Real person, imagined relationship.