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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died April 12th, 2007. Rest in Peace Kurt.
1922 - 2007
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Scorpio 2008 - Intense Self-Reliant Water Spirits
by Robert Wilkinson November accents the water sign Scorpio, where we transcend the forms we’ve glimpsed up to now and move deeper into the experience of people and activities. We can concentrate power by purifying ourselves of obsolete or stagnant feelings, and going deeper into our mystery to regenerate what we need to get from here to where we're going. It’s definitely the heart of Autumn, with its focus on harvesting that which is pleasing, socializing and connecting while seeing the end
10 Things I'm Lovin'...
I thought I'd share a list this week. It's something I used to do quite a bit on my personal blog and then I guess, just forgot that I liked to do it. It's sort of like Oprah, only I ain't givin' you shit. So here goes... 10. CAT'S CRADLE by Kurt Vonnegut. Subtle apocalyptic scifi by a master of satire. I had never read Vonnegut before and was totally ashamed to admit it. Now I'm hooked. His style is easy and accessible while the concepts are challenging and thought provoking. Most of all, it's
Today In History: November 11
Today is Veteran’s Day. On November 11, 1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for “just and equal laws. On November 11, 1831 - Nat Turner, a slave and educated minister, was hanged in Jerusalem, VA, after inciting a violent slave uprising. On November 11, 1887 - Labor Activists were hanged in Illinois after being convicted of being connected to a bombing that killed eight
‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’ (1918)
Today is Veterans Day, also known as Remembrance Day in England. It was originally called Armistice Day, set aside to commemorate those who died during the First World War. The armistice ending the war came into effect at 11 a.m. on the 11th of November 1918. While the war left behind a "lost generation" of artists who ushered in modernism, it also cut short a generation of writers and poets. It's impossible to imagine what they would have written and how they could have changed the culture,
It's Birthday, Bitch
Leonardo DiCaprio, 34 Adam Beach, 36 Leslie Mann, 36 Peta Wilson, 38 Carson Kressley, 39 Calista Flockhart, 44 Demi Moore, 46 Jane Pratt, 46 Stanley Tucci, 48 Lisa Welch, 48 (NSFW) Marc Summers, 57 Susanna Kaysen, 60 Barbara Boxer, 68 Bibi Andersson, 73 Jonathan Winters, 83 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, 86 (deceased) Alger Hiss, 104 (deceased) Pat O'Brien, 109 (deceased) George Patton, 123 (deceased) – Lindsey Hager
So it goes, in honor of Vonnegut’s birthday
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007 Tags: Kurt Vonnegut, quotes
November 11th
Three-time Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio is 34 today. Calista Flockhart is 44. Demi Moore is 46. Stanley Tucci is 48. Jonathan Winters is 83. The late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922. He was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and was forced to work in a Dresden factory producing vitamin-enriched malt syrup for pregnant women. He slept in a meat locker three stories underground, and that was the only reason he survived the firebombing on the night
"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
“High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr, 1922 - 2007 via QOTD So true, when I hear the new freshmans complain about highschool, I lie to them and tell them it gets better. Backstabbing, lying, cheating, hoeing, sluts, the jerks-all that stops when we graduate. =) gotta give the kids hope, man. (via shawnblog)
More dream makers (addendum to a previous review)
A while back I did a review of Charles Platt’s Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work, a collection of interviews he conducted with numerous famous authors. The particular item I was reviewing was a 1987 hardcover edition that was, I stated at the time, a merger of two previous paperback volumes by the same title. It turns out that description was not quite accurate, because I just picked up the first of those paperbacks — Dream Makers: the Uncommon People Who Write Scienc
Obamania: no disrespect, but some people really need to get a grip
Inoubliable! Extraordinaire! Fantastique! Historique! Inouï! Irréel! Génial! Super! Flippant! Renversant! Kennedy! Martin Luther King! Roosevelt! Brad Pitt! George Clooney! Angelina Jolie! Eva Longoria! Broadway! Hollywood! Starbucks! Apple! Desperate Housewives! Prison Break! Tommy Hilfiger! Nike! Don de Lillo! Richard Brautigan! Kurt Vonnegut! Martin Scorcese! The Coen brothers! Woody Allen! Tim Robbins! Susan Sarandon! Jon Stewart! David Letterman! Edward Hopper! Norman Rockwell! The Doors! V
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature
Daily Article by Murray N. Rothbard | Posted on 11/8/2008 This article is excerpted from the title essay and the introduction to the first edition of Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays. Introduction to First Edition Probably the most common question that has been hurled at me — in some exasperation — over the years is, “Why don’t you stick to economics?” For different reasons, this question has been thrown at me by fellow economists and by political thinkers and ac
Comics Column #3—A Question of Accessibility: Studying Pathology and Archaeology (Warren Ellis, Superheroes)
By Michael Peterson "This is what you get when you emotionally invest yourself in a company-owned product that has to keep on coming out regardless of who's writing and drawing it. This is what you get when your lizard compulsion to jerk off over superheroes overrides your forebrain. This is what happens when saying 'I just want X-Men to be good again' is mistaken for some kind of intelligent comment on the state of the medium. Fuck all of you." —Warren Ellis— *** XII. "I want the whole pictu
Tonight's Movie: The American Ruling Class
This is nonpartisan and just for fun. Even if you support Bush or McCain or Mussolini... or Louis XIV you can enjoy this film.In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,” essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?Appeari
Interview with Blogger Dave Medvitz
Would you please tell us something about you and your site? I have been a teacher for over 25 years. Most of my experience has been at the secondary level, but recently I have done some adjunct teaching at the college level. I have a wide range of interests which has led me to teach courses in the following disciplines: history, philosophy, humanities, religion, ethics, and computers. My blog, medvitz.wordpress.com, reflects these interests. In particular I am interested in how to use te
At the 2009 Fellows’ Retreat: Miss Lord’s Notes from the Edge
Editor’s note: Guest blogger Heather Lord is an erstwhile consumer behavior analyst currently working in the international human rights sector. Last week, she joined the 2009 Acumen Fund Fellows for their retreat. By Heather Lord I don’t know what you did this past week, but I just spent three days spying on the 2009 class of Acumen Fund Fellows. In my academic and professional life, I have been obsessed with the factors leading individuals and groups to act for good, for evil, and for pleasu
Indy as Culinary Crossroads
Some people in Indianapolis are referring to America’s 12th largest city as the Culinary Crossroads, says Mike Michaelson, writing for The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana. He notes the Indy Wine Trail, the Sushi For Sissies classes at Tchopstix, and the 1898 German restaurant known as The Rathskeller (Roadfood.com review; photo above) in the Athenaeum, a building designed in 1892 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s grandfather. The Slippery Noodle Inn is Indiana’s oldest bar, and was the site of a bo
Armageddon in Retrospect - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - A Review
This was one of the most remarkable books I’ve read in recent memory. The work in the collection is all new, all unpublished - though we lost the author last year. It is themed around War, in particular WWII in particular. This is a remarkable book for a great number of reasons. Probably the most striking thing about it, in my opinion, is that the stories range in perspective from prisoners of war to those liberated after the war, to American soldiers, and then to scientists and the government
The Plot is Man’s Inhumanity to Man
My life is always sending me messages. For instance, I’m writing a book right now for a man who survived the Holocaust and participated in the liberation and creation of the modern nation of Israel. What he went through - the things he suffered - catch at the heart. You can hear the emotion buried in the words. I never knew exactly how far-reaching the inhumanity of that particular time period actually was until I started delving into this story. After surviving four separate camps, this man
TT #80: Books with Hallucinations
Books with hallucinatory scenes. 1. Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn 2. The Blunder by Joe Kilgore 3. Church of the Dog by Kaya McLaren 4. The Sea Gift by John Ashby 5. She Who Hears the Sun by Pamela Jekel 6. Expecting Adam by Martha Beck 7. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer 8. The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier 9. The Winter of the Birds by Helen Cresswell 10. Blake's Therapy by Ariel Dorfman 11. Cereus Bloo
Ambrosia - "Ambrosia" (1975) @320
In the late 70's i had the stereo (radio) booming while doing chores around the house when all sudden i was mesmerized by a beautiful prog rock song pumping thru my speakers. I had to sit and listen with increasing hope that the disc jockey would say who it was. After the song ended he did say it was Ambrosia - "Mama Frog".I was totally unaware that Ambrosia was anything but cheesy soft rock band, it seems this first album was the only one that carried the prog, rock, jazz fusion sound (to my kn
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