dead Where [was] Kurt Vonnegut?

[Windsor 2,142]

That's a shame - Kurt was one of those I removed from this year's DL shadow list!

 

I removed him from my list too. Thinking that he looked fine albeit a tad frail.Other than that he seemed to be in good spirits and not likely to drop dead for at least another year.

 

Weird though, i just lent a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to a work colleague of mine only yesterday

 

Well in that case - not wanting to be left out - I removed him from my shadow list too!

[CarolAnn 924]

I didn't remove him from anything but I thought about him - briefly....

[themaninblack 2,112]

That's a shame - Kurt was one of those I removed from this year's DL shadow list!

 

I removed him from my list too. Thinking that he looked fine albeit a tad frail.Other than that he seemed to be in good spirits and not likely to drop dead for at least another year.

 

Weird though, i just lent a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to a work colleague of mine only yesterday

 

Well in that case - not wanting to be left out - I removed him from my shadow list too!

 

He was on my database but never seriously considered. Seems he died after 'a fall', that venerable elderly standby. I always wanted to read one of his books but never got round to it.

 

Sad fact: the recurring phrase Vonnegut used in his books, 'So it goes' was used as the title of a Granada TV pop programme in the mid-70s which featured the Sex Pistols...

[Olveres 8]

That's a shame - Kurt was one of those I removed from this year's DL shadow list!

 

I removed him from my list too. Thinking that he looked fine albeit a tad frail.Other than that he seemed to be in good spirits and not likely to drop dead for at least another year.

 

Weird though, i just lent a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to a work colleague of mine only yesterday

 

Well in that case - not wanting to be left out - I removed him from my shadow list too!

 

He was on my database but never seriously considered. Seems he died after 'a fall', that venerable elderly standby. I always wanted to read one of his books but never got round to it.

 

Sad fact: the recurring phrase Vonnegut used in his books, 'So it goes' was used as the title of a Granada TV pop programme in the mid-70s which featured the Sex Pistols...

 

Wasn't that presented by Tony Wilson, a possible 2008 candidate?

[themaninblack 2,112]

That's a shame - Kurt was one of those I removed from this year's DL shadow list!

 

I removed him from my list too. Thinking that he looked fine albeit a tad frail.Other than that he seemed to be in good spirits and not likely to drop dead for at least another year.

 

Weird though, i just lent a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to a work colleague of mine only yesterday

 

Well in that case - not wanting to be left out - I removed him from my shadow list too!

 

He was on my database but never seriously considered. Seems he died after 'a fall', that venerable elderly standby. I always wanted to read one of his books but never got round to it.

 

Sad fact: the recurring phrase Vonnegut used in his books, 'So it goes' was used as the title of a Granada TV pop programme in the mid-70s which featured the Sex Pistols...

 

Wasn't that presented by Tony Wilson, a possible 2008 candidate?

 

Indeed it was...

[maryportfuncity 9,991]

Sad about old Kurt, really rated his books and read 'Man Without A Country' recently, the good 'uns - Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle - are as good as people say, Mother Night is - IMHO - sorely under-rated, nowhere near as trixy as the big hitters but it's main character is an ex-propogandist for the Nazis who was really a double agent working for the USA, it's a book that asks some really deep questions about guilt and revenge. Questions KV was suggesting George Bush should consider deeply.

[Tuber Mirum 119]

Am I alone in not being able to come to terms with the concept of George Bush considering something deeply?

[Banshees Scream 107]

Am I alone in not being able to come to terms with the concept of George Bush considering something deeply?

 

George Bush considered and hit go for soldiers to stay at war and hang around the sand lands with crazy carpet floating towel heads who run around with machine guns.

 

A couple days ago I heard the man speak, and I followed him up on the section of his talk reflecting on matters of protecting and defending your country. In my mind I have no doubt that sooner or later one of these Muja Muja Ambads or Cooca Ras Devars will strike in the worst way, and you can only be creative about where their next target awaits.

 

A bridge or a subway seems essential to me - And the next president has to find a way to eliminate the constant possibility of a unforgiving attack. I believe Bush should have ended this war a long time ago, but the oil issue still remains but the ruin of Iraq shouldn't be our problem. The better president would have come to a reasonable deal already that would effectively come to a solution for both sides.

 

If a draft was in line, my comment would make a turn some major degree, but among these soldiers which all walked their own walk, if you believe keep your faith in god because they choose their own destiny.

[Tuber Mirum 119]

Am I alone in not being able to come to terms with the concept of George Bush considering something deeply?

 

George Bush considered and hit go for soldiers to stay at war and hang around the sand lands with crazy carpet floating towel heads who run around with machine guns.

 

A couple days ago I heard the man speak, and I followed him up on the section of his talk reflecting on matters of protecting and defending your country. In my mind I have no doubt that sooner or later one of these Muja Muja Ambads or Cooca Ras Devars will strike in the worst way, and you can only be creative about where their next target awaits.

 

A bridge or a subway seems essential to me - And the next president has to find a way to eliminate the constant possibility of a unforgiving attack. I believe Bush should have ended this war a long time ago, but the oil issue still remains but the ruin of Iraq shouldn't be our problem. The better president would have come to a reasonable deal already that would effectively come to a solution for both sides.

 

If a draft was in line, my comment would make a turn some major degree, but among these soldiers which all walked their own walk, if you believe keep your faith in god because they choose their own destiny.

So that's a "no" then, is it?

[dave 0]

Where is Kurt Vonnegut?

in a little wooden box tonight

[Banshees Scream 107]

So that's a "no" then, is it?

 

Who cares if it is Yes or No. How about this list? (Where was Kurt Vonnegut?) I'll tell you something right now, call this year the most disappointing list in history'

 

(Scream - April 2007)

[The Pooka 24]

That's a shame - Kurt was one of those I removed from this year's DL shadow list!

 

I removed him from my list too. Thinking that he looked fine albeit a tad frail.Other than that he seemed to be in good spirits and not likely to drop dead for at least another year.

 

Weird though, i just lent a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to a work colleague of mine only yesterday

..... and I'm currently reading it for the first time since 1973. So it goes ........ (as KV would have put it).

 

Have just checked and the last words I read were,

 

'So Billy experiences death for a while. It is simply violet light and a hum. There isn't anybody else there........'

 

Spooky. Well I guess he'll now know if he was right.

[CarolAnn 924]

Am I alone in not being able to come to terms with the concept of George Bush considering something deeply?

 

No.

[maryportfuncity 9,991]

the next president has to find a way to eliminate the constant possibility of a unforgiving attack

 

And the next UK Prime Minister; it took fifteen years to bring some to justice for massacring Halibuts in the former Yugoslavia, it's a long shot but one effective tactic to avoid major countries like the US and UK being targets would be to put those responsible for the war on terror on trial.

[Typhoid Harry 21]

Thread title amended. -TH

 

 

Edit: And I, too, am saddened by this news. (I had him penciled in for next year following a recent talk I heard him give at Stanford a few months ago.) The best part about favored authors is that even when they've gone, we can still visit with them.

[TLC 9]

George Bush considered and hit go for soldiers to stay at war and hang around the sand lands with crazy carpet floating towel heads who run around with machine guns.

 

A couple days ago I heard the man speak, and I followed him up on the section of his talk reflecting on matters of protecting and defending your country. In my mind I have no doubt that sooner or later one of these Muja Muja Ambads or Cooca Ras Devars will strike in the worst way, and you can only be creative about where their next target awaits.

Maybe it is finally time I used the ignore button, what the f*ck is wrong with you?

[Handrejka 1,840]

I'd forgotten that "Harrison Bergeron" was one of his . We had to read that at school and it was only last week I was thinking of revisting it. I was unaware who the author was at the time.

[Tuber Mirum 119]

George Bush considered and hit go for soldiers to stay at war and hang around the sand lands with crazy carpet floating towel heads who run around with machine guns.

 

A couple days ago I heard the man speak, and I followed him up on the section of his talk reflecting on matters of protecting and defending your country. In my mind I have no doubt that sooner or later one of these Muja Muja Ambads or Cooca Ras Devars will strike in the worst way, and you can only be creative about where their next target awaits.

Maybe it is finally time I used the ignore button, what the f*ck is wrong with you?

Now, now TLC. Leave Mr. Rumsfeld alone!

[Banshees Scream 107]

Maybe it is finally time I used the ignore button, what the f*ck is wrong with you?

 

Smile TLC, have a sense of humor. These people show no regard for us, and after what they have layed down it gives absolute permission for me to crack a joke and customize a few Dar Dar names.

 

If your girlfriend\best friend is of blood related to this decent, my apologies fly.

[maryportfuncity 9,991]

I'd forgotten that "Harrison Bergeron" was one of his . We had to read that at school and it was only last week I was thinking of revisting it. I was unaware who the author was at the time.

 

 

'Gee, I could tell that one was a doozy.'

 

Absolute class short story, in fact most of 'Welcome to the Monkey House' stands up pretty well these days, fifty years and more after it was written.

[TLC 9]

Maybe it is finally time I used the ignore button, what the f*ck is wrong with you?

 

Smile TLC, have a sense of humor. These people show no regard for us, and after what they have layed down it gives absolute permission for me to crack a joke and customize a few Dar Dar names.

 

If your girlfriend\best friend is of blood related to this decent, my apologies fly.

Why not just go the whole hog and refer to 'these people' as Sand N*ggers like Joe Pesci's character does in Casino? They all deserve it after all, they're not like us etc. And Joe said it, so that's ok.

 

Why would you only apologise if I'm close to someone of Middle Eastern descent? That's like only being sorry for doing something bad because you got caught. Makes the apology worthless.

 

I have a sense of humour, and even smile sometimes. I like to wait for something funny to trigger those responses though. I will even laugh at things that I know I should find offensive sometimes, but they still have to be funny/clever as well as offensive. People being offensive just for the sake of it is where my sense of humour tends to fail.

 

And 'dinnerladies', although I still have trouble believing it's even supposed to be a comedy. I mean come on, it's got Victoria Wood in it.

[Banshees Scream 107]

Why would you only apologise if I'm close to someone of Middle Eastern descent? That's like only being sorry for doing something bad because you got caught. Makes the apology worthless.

 

Good point. Now I don't want to be Don Imus, but it would make a sensible difference because civilized people who don't live in poverty and who have a basic understanding of humanity are good people, no matter what their race or religion is.

 

In the Mid East many good hearted people live, and at the same time many blood sucking aladdin's roam as well. My comment was based on who they were with a touch of humor, not what they are. Many of the common views of the desert people are stone cold wrong, bottom line.

[Tuber Mirum 119]

...civilized people who don't live in poverty.......are good people...

 

So "poor people are bad people" is what you're saying to us Banshees Scream?

[Banshees Scream 107]

So "poor people are bad people" is what you're saying to us Banshees Scream?

 

Of course not. But the misinformed and the non - educated tend to be ruthless and for these foreign haters, they are virtually hypnotized. I mean to murder the innocent and throw street celebrations something is wrong, America would never celebrate after bombing a society and killing thousands for no reason.

 

The hijackers believed the great Allah would reward them with almost whorehouse fantasies in Heaven, for ending their lives's to murder everyday people who had the luxury to work in some of New York's most elite buildings created.

 

Poor people aren't bad people, in fact they might be more wise then most. But something is going on in the mid east, and as you have to protect your country, these are the assholes who design the earths destruction and a whole load of sh*t that should have ended before it started.

 

If your going to be at war which is bad enough, set the standards, aim high and step up, cooperate or die it is that simple.

 

I say we close the door on this, it should have been shut a long time ago.

[Real Madron 6]

yeah agreed shut the door on it