willypilgrim

Sorry to be completely off topic, but Vonnegut died last night, and i Saw there was no thread on here and I know people have mentioned him before so I thought I'd let people know.

Who's chain smokin' pall malls with me today?

subsistbmx@hotm

yeah. I'm about to read 'Blue Beard' by him.

isotopesope

'blue beard' is my favorite vonnegut book i've read. i've only read a few though.

pitboss

unstuck in time now.

I was able to teach part of "Slaughterhouse Five" - I wish it could have been all of it.
K.V. kept me fully entertained my first year of college

a true loss

joshuastar

so it goes.


indeed. cheers kurt!

refry

oh i thoiught oit was someone on these forums and i was going to be sad but never find f em..

nayr497

Yep, sad to see him go, but after seeing him on the Daily Show last year I kind of felt his time was coming to an end. I'd much rather be reading any one of his books and Irish waking him than reading my school books. Farewell, Mr. V!

willypilgrim

Well, I don't really take offense at that, but based off your sentence structure, I can see why.

You get a small reprieve if english isn't your primary language.

queerpunk

i have to completely disagree with you. a loss would have been if vonnegut died during the firebombing of dresden. a loss is those with talents comparable or surpassing those of vonneguts who died in the idiocies that vonnegut deplored and wrote of. KV, on the other hand, lived a long life and blessed us with lots of brilliance and beauty. i am inclined to think that if he were told of his own death, he'd shrug and say, "all right, then," and light a cigarette.

here is what is apparently vonnegut's only love story.

raise a glass to the man and his work today. he's one worth celebrating.

willypilgrim

Agreed, he was ready and so was I, but it still is a bummer. My lady and I were discussing it and it's just unexpected, even when it's expected. People die and I'm not crushed by it, hence using the line So it goes.

He's been dissapointed for a while that smoking hadn't killed him.

pitboss

eugoogoly - best ever

willypilgrim

Word, queerpunk. Pretty apt description.

It would be a harder blow if he had still been writing.

queerpunk

yeah.
time for me to get timequake.
i didn't like galapagos much, but i don't hold it against him.

Ya Tu Sabes

Since we're totally off topic, let me share a strange memory of KV: In college, my friend and I had this habit when we were walking around of seeing random strangers and saying, "Hey, there goes . . ." and we'd insert the name of a random famous person who the stranger looked like (or totally didn't look like, if that was funny at the moment). So one night we were walking down Grand Street in SoHo around 11:00, and about a block ahead of us we saw some old guy come out of a building and light up a cigarette. For whatever reason, I said, "Hey! There goes Kurt Vonnegut!" And then, when we walked by him, it was Kurt Vonnegut, which was amusing and strangely exciting, since I'm not usually wowed by seeing famous people. Also, he wrote awesome books.

willypilgrim

Alright friends. Just had a bottle of Premium(raised appropriately high to kurt v) to start the day. Off to pick up some pall malls and go to work! I'll check in later make sure vonnegut is gettign enough love.

delicious

So it goes.

nayr497

I still laugh every time I think reading one KV for the first time and he is writing about beavers. He includes a picture of a beaver you'd find in a pond, but that of course is not the beaver he means.

From the memory bank - I think that is in "Breakfast of Champions"? Feel free to correct me, but even if I'm wrong I still love his line drawing of a beaver. By the way...I guess I always just assumed he did his own drawings since they were so simple. Anyone have the answer to this?

dirtyphotons

everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.

disco2000

One of my good friends used to be in the publishing world, and was KV's assistant for a time. More recently, they would still meet in Central Park for hot dogs from time to time when they were both in NYC. His email to me this morning: "oh he had a full life. and lots of a$$." Indeed.

delicious

Yeah, he did those drawings. I always loved that.

ryand

thats what my leg says.

my sister texted me and told me.
im kinda bummed, but it was expected.
time to go reread all the books i own and buy the rest of the collection.

she was going to get me one of his books personalized, but it was too expensive, so she settled for palahniuk. still one of the coolest gifts ive ever received.

if i drank, i would drink one right now.

pitboss

as I do with you - a person of his cailber was hardly spent. celebrate him indeed, but it is still a loss.

Kilgore_Trout

so it goes

but i am pretty ******** crushed about this. my favorite author ever

kafkaesque

skinnyland

The world has lost a great hero....

Rest in peace, Kurt. I'll drink a tall one for you, and fire up another butt.