So it goes.
sorry - that was inevitable
I'm not surprised. He looked pretty frail on TDS.
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:15:49 pm PDT #2528 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Polter-Cow - Apr 11, 2007 6:18:00 pm PDT #2529 of 28175
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dammit, Hec, I came to edit that in. Heh.
When was he on TDS? Recently?
DavidS - Apr 11, 2007 6:26:00 pm PDT #2530 of 28175
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When was he on TDS? Recently?
Within the last couple months. I bet they throw the clip up at the TDS website.
Scrappy - Apr 11, 2007 6:27:41 pm PDT #2531 of 28175
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Damn. Had to run in the other room and tell the DH, who is jamming on guitars with our neighbor. He is a HUGE Vonnegut fan.
brenda m - Apr 11, 2007 6:31:52 pm PDT #2532 of 28175
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, he didn't look (or sound) long for this world.
Hayden - Apr 11, 2007 7:14:43 pm PDT #2533 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lucky mud, lucky me. Although I felt like I outgrew the man's books a while back, I read everything he wrote before I was 22.
Hayden - Apr 11, 2007 7:16:04 pm PDT #2534 of 28175
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Frankenbuddha - Apr 12, 2007 3:42:37 am PDT #2535 of 28175
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm not surprised. He looked pretty frail on TDS.
Apparently he had a bad fall a few weeks back, so his frailty was exacerbated.
Although I felt like I outgrew the man's books a while back, I read everything he wrote before I was 22.
Corwood is me. At a certain point in my life, he was the most important writer in the world to me. It's been a while, but he certainly had his place in my formative psyche. Not as much as Monty Python, I'm sure, but still a large chunk.
erikaj - Apr 12, 2007 10:52:27 am PDT #2536 of 28175
Always Anti-fascist!
I haven't read him...do I have to deduct IQ points? Although I enjoyed seeing him on television and that graduation speech thing.
Kathy A - Apr 12, 2007 11:21:52 am PDT #2537 of 28175
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I haven't read any Vonnegut novels, but I have read some short stories. One of my all-time favorite short stories is one of his I read in Reader's Digest when I was in junior high--"Who Am I This Time?", which was adapted in 1980 or so into a wonderful production of PBS's American Playhouse, starring Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken, and directed by Jonathan Demme.