dead Where [was] Kurt Vonnegut?

[Guest Brennan]

Where is Kurt Vonnegut?

[Stayin Alive 26]

Sorry Brennan, but I draw a total blank on this one.

[Grim Reaper 186]

Well I did a bit of research - quite a character, a bit of an artist and in his senior year too.

 

No news on his health though so I have to presume its good. He might just pass the famousness test but I admit to not having heard of him before. One for the candidate database I think.

[Guest 100th monkey]

hey lives in San Francisco

[The Yeti 14]

You mean Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, the famous anti-war book ? He's not famous enough ??

Try http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/index.html

 

Love this quote of his ...

 

The Internet stuff is spooky. I am of course not on line. I do remember ham radio operators though, usually in attics or basements, pallid, unsociable, and obsessed, inhabiting a spirit world, and harmless ...

 

We can't be connected with them, surely ?

 

He's also been misidentified as the author of the Sunscreen speech, which was famously turned into a Baz Lurhmann song (he of Moulin Rouge) ...

 

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/vonnegut.htm

http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/mary-schmich.html

http://www.mp3miracle.com/BazLuhrmann/Sunscreen/ (I checked for viruses - it's safe)

 

... though to confuse things further, I don't think it's Baz Luhrmann's voice you hear in the song ...

[Stayin Alive 26]

http://www.mp3miracle.com/BazLuhrmann/Sunscreen/ (I checked for viruses - it's safe)

Just ignore the download prompt that comes up, its probably for some spyware You can download the mp3 without downloading any plug-ins. And remember: Don't forget your sunscreen!

[The Yeti 14]

I didn't see any ad ... but then I have a popup stopper installed, so they tend to get squished before they get to my eyeballs.

 

Yep, you don't need plugins or anything else to download.

[Mr Stats 9]

Will you two cut out the teccie crap. This isn't some sad chatroom for IT professionals with no life you know.

 

It's intellectual forum for other people with no life.

[Grim Reaper 186]

Surely that's teccie spelt techie??

[Stayin Alive 26]

True, standing down from the techie twat stuff for now.

[Guest Guest]

Where is Kurt Vonnegut? He's in New York. Has been for years. Has a place in the Hamtons, too.

Vonnegut is in Manhattan. Has been for years. Has a place in the Hamptons, too.

[Stayin Alive 26]

Oh well, back to the drawing board for now.

[Typhoid Harry 23]

Perchance our brethren from the UK might like to read a few books?

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-h...6893378-1551216

 

Seriously, Vonnegut is great stuff with a particularly peculiar point of view.

[Stayin Alive 26]

Hi Typhoid Harry

 

That link doesn't work

 

I think some amazon links are 'session based'. Care to mention the title of the book you are trying to link to?

[Guest Guest]

Actually (and now that I THINK about it), that was a search result page at Amazon on Vonnegut, the number of familiar books is quite surprising...

[Typhoid Harry 23]

That was me, above, and once before as well. Moron that I am, I forget to log in, from time to time...

 

"Momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates.."

[BlackThirteen 1]

He has to be on the next list. 82 years old he's gonna buy it soon. On a side note I am deriving far too much joy from predicting the death of other humans. But I'm ok with that.

 

[blackThirteen - I have merged your thread with a previous to keep the subject together - DWB]

[BlackThirteen 1]

Yeah good call. My bad on not making sure he wasn't already up here.

[Stayin Alive 26]

For a minute there I thought you were having a conversation with yourself, until I saw DWB's annotation!

[Guest Germa]

Is it true that Kurt Vonnegut took part in producing the Ice-9 Ballads CD with Dave Soldier?

[Teddy 21]

Is it true that Kurt Vonnegut took part in producing the Ice-9 Ballads CD with Dave Soldier?

Yes - you can find it here.

[Guest danny]

Is it true that Kurt Vonnegut took part in producing the Ice-9 Ballads CD with Dave Soldier?

Yes - you can find it here.

slly in the garden sifting cinders lifted up her leg and farted like a man...the percussion from the fart broke 16 winders and thecheeks on her ass went clap clap clap...k.v.

[maryportfuncity 10,630]

Re Kurt

 

The great man is on BBC 2 tonight - 10 Feb - 7-8 on The Culture Show.

 

Worth staying in for.

[maryportfuncity 10,630]

Vonnegut's just published a new book - A Man Without a Country - not something Salinger has done in decades. Also Vonnegut's self-depreciating humour is probably the one strong life preserver he's hung onto over the years.

 

Salinger; with his obsessive love of privacy, could be driven into a decline if he ever chanced on this thread.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

Something must be firing Kurt Vonnegut's immune system if he's publishing a book after 71 years as an unrepentant smoker.

 

Or someone.