Kurt Vonnegut 1922 – 2007

Filed in National by on April 12, 2007

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  1. jason330 says:
    April 12, 2007 at 8:38 am

    I have a wordpress question for liberalgeek and tommywonk and people who aresmarter about this kind of thing than I am.

    How do I put something like this on my “page” so that it is not taking the top spot?

  2. Disbelief says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:01 am

    One of my greatest influences during high school (yes, I am a nerd). Even though Ice Nine scared the crap out of me.

  3. jason330 says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:05 am

    My mother worked for years to try to get me interested in reading. After picking up “Breakfast of Champions” I was off to the races.

  4. donviti says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:31 am

    I have never read a book by him. I just finished a war book by Brad Nohr. I guess in his honor I should pick up something…

  5. Disbelief says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:48 am

    Don, Sirens of Titan is one of the more entertaining.

    I loved his cameo in Back to School. Rodney Dangerfield was a college student, and had enough money to get Kurt to write his English paper on Kurt. The teacher told Rodney that the paper indicated he knew nothing about Kurt.

  6. liberalgeek says:
    April 12, 2007 at 9:52 am

    My favorite Vonnegut-related story is one my wife tells. She has never read a lick of Vonnegut, but once she went to a dance at some military academy and she ended up dancing with a guy whose pick up line was “I read Vonnegut.” I sometimes use that line on her now when I am getting too geeky with her.

    As for ice nine, scares the crap out of me too. I hear North Korea is working on an ice nine bomb.

  7. anon says:
    April 12, 2007 at 10:29 am

    The Germans and the dog were engaged in a military operation Which had an amusingly self explanatory name, a human enterprise which is seldom described in detail, whose name alone, when reported as news or history gives war enthusiasts a sort of post coital satisfaction. It is, in the imagination of combats fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called “mopping up.”

    Slaughter House-Five

  8. donviti says:
    April 12, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    thanks for the advice, now hopefully the library isn’t out of it

  9. Disbelief says:
    April 12, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    The Vonnegut books might be unavailable at the public library. I think Gonzalez declared them supportive of terrorism and had them all burned.

  10. donviti says:
    April 12, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    are you sure that wasn’t Ashcroft? I only say that b/c I noticed the nude statue of Minner was covered

  11. jason330 says:
    April 12, 2007 at 4:05 pm

    nude statue of Minner

  12. jason330 says:
    April 12, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    Thanks,

    Now I have to scrub my imagination with clorox and a wire brush.

  13. Disbelief says:
    April 12, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    You are referring to “The Queen of Clubs”?

    Get it? Looks like she was beaten with clubs? haha?

    How about the guy who came up to her and asked, “What year were you Champ?”

  14. G Rex says:
    April 12, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    Please, you sully the memory of a great writer; a true prince of satire and sarcasm, Vonnegut was the Swift of our age.

  15. oedipa maas says:
    April 12, 2007 at 10:56 pm

    RIP, Mr. Vonnegut. He was one of the most moral writers I think I ever read. He came to the main Philly library a few years back to discuss his books. He seemed physically abit fragile, but the wit and wisdom was rapier sharp.

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