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DJ The Stick
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Now Kurt will be able to pursue his true passion.
Being a zombie.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| We all chainsmoked some unfiltered Pall Malls in memory last night. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: |
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yar har, I watched a bit of that today.  |
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dodger
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| cow_with_gun wrote: | | yar har, I watched a bit of that today. |
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As a man who owns all of Vonnegut's books, I find the lack of respect in this thread a little... irritating. It's one thing to make fun of Anna Nicole or Rick James, who were walking self-parodies in the first place, and negligibly valuable. Kurt Vonnegut was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century or otherwise.
Well, I'm sure I'll get over it. Carry on, kids. I think it's time for a greatest-writers-of-the-20th-century-thread. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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im afraid i may have trivialized him to the common borders here with my vonnegut/twin thread, and since he and bob dylan were constantly toted as gods by caesar...well, people may have thought he was a crazy old fool who mumbles and has also been irrelevant for the last thirty years as well.
but yeah guys, vonnegut is one of the greatest, and most unique, american writers of our generation. read one of his books
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| I wouldn't say he's been irrelevant for thirty years... his last novel, Timequake (published 1998? I think?), was one of his best. It's basically Vonnegut coming to terms with the inevitability of his own death. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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im talking about bob dylan. vonnegut has stayed consistent throughout the years (a man without his country was brilliant)
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Kurt Vonnegut wrote "The Big Space Fuck." Therefore, I don't think we've been too out of line yet. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| He also said that his favorite joke is that after he'd died, people would say "Kurt's in heaven now..." |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| dodger wrote: | | He also said that his favorite joke is that after he'd died, people would say "Kurt's in heaven now..." |
Yea, he said that in the Humanist convention.
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