KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Greetings Flashes, I am writing with a heart full of sadness to convey my condolences for the recent tragedies that have befallen our beloved community. I am a proud alum (1983) as is my wife (1982), and our son is now a freshman on campus. I have never written a letter to the Stater, a paper I dearly miss and which I read cover to cover throughout my undergraduate days.
Foma* (Free subscription) | yesterday
Original here The latest storyline in 9 Chickweed Lane (aka The Horniest Strip In Print) has to do with Grandma Edie retelling the tale of how she aided the war effort. In today's episode, a mysterious officer recruits Edie to become a singer for the Reich under deep cover. That story sure does sound familiar. Like maybe Howard W. Campbell Jr. in Mother Night . Methinks somebody owes Kurt Vonnegut...
serialdeviant.org(y) (Free subscription) | yesterday
A letter from another literary crush — Kurt Vonnegut’s POW letter home.
Thinking About... (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has come unstuck in time. Much of Billy’s time is spent during World War II. As an new soldier, Billy is sent to the front, where he is captured at the Battle of the Bulge by the Germans, and sent to Dresden [...]
the beat bike blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." -Kurt Vonnegut I've always been fond of both that quote and peculiar travel suggestions in general. This is why I was all ears when Josh put forth the proposition that we should ride our bikes from Hartford to a bike show and swap meet in Dudley, Massachusetts this past Saturday. He mapped out a route that would take us through 50+...
io9 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Print may be dying all over, but is that any excuse to let science-fiction magazines retreat to the internet or non-existence? Of course not! Here's our five step guide on potential ways to save this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Angrysoba shares his thoughts on one of the most readable of Britain's new generation of old fogies — Theodore Darlymple — together with a few reading recommendations. By the way, the photo is not of Dalrymple nor Soba nor Me, but Victor Meldrew, the sort of character I think Dalrymple (real name: Anthony Daniels ) has molded his persona upon. — Greywolf A few weeks ago someone posted...
Blog Made for the Purposes of One P (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... I was standing in line at the Met at 8 A.M. and heard my Dad exclaim, "Evan! Look! It's Kurt Vonnegut!" and I froze and watched him pass and my Dad mused aloud, "Where is he?" and I turned around and he was right there right behind me -- looming and glowering -- and so I kept on turning, my back as stiff as an arrow.
Here She Be -- The Battlements (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Ok, so this isn’t much of a post, but I thought I’d put up the list of books I’ve read since coming to Japan and those I was in the midst of reading. Recently, I’ve reached a point where I read a novel or two about every week or two. So, by next [...]
yewknee.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Posting this as a reminder to myself and a decent heads up to you.. Find time to read these: The Uncollected Stories of JD Salinger, Collected . The title pretty much says it all. Letters of Note: Kurt Vonnegut - a short read but an important one as it is a letter sent from Vonnegut during his time in Dresden; which pretty much shaped the rest of his life. Also, remember to thank Kate for providing...
Fraggmented (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OK, I still must be at least a tiny little bit sick, because my brain just stopped dead to consider how funny the word "Peeve" looked, and wonder if it was somehow etymologically related to "reeve", and now I'm trying to remember what the heck a "reeve" actually is, but I'm too lazy to wiki it... Anyhow, my pet irritation of the day: Science-fiction authors who insist...
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Flickr/kudumomo Our story on China's earliest snowfall in decades got picked up by Green Patriot Radio, which interviewed me on the ins and outs of the country's extensive rainmaking program. Among the trivia I share: - Rainmaking technology was...
Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Fake Snow in China, Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother, Falling Cement and Other Weather-Mod Tales Flickr/kudumomo Our story on China’s earliest snowfall in decades got picked up by Green Patriot Radio, which interviewed me on the ins and outs of the country’s extensive rainmaking program. Among the trivia I share: - Rainmaking technology was first [...]
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From Letters of Note: In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached...
Fluttering Butterflies (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
...Another trip to the library! Sorry about the terrible photos. Bad lighting, bad angles. Oh well. Some interesting looking books though... First up we have The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver which I snatched up from the New Releases shelf. I try to be dignified about it all, but failed pretty miserably. I got looks. Then we have Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer , which was...
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