Comments on: RIP Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

By: Billy Pilgrimreaper

Billy Pilgrimreaper — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:19:00 +0000

Carl, carl, carl – don’t fall for their adolescent turnaround game, call a spade a spade man. The only way these illiterati amuse themselves is with kindergarten playground tactics of “That’s what your are, what am I?” It’s a common retaliation tactic and actually quite cute. I just hope we didn’t insult their intelligence to the point where it discourages them from writing – practice makes perfect guys!

By: CarlCorey Colman

CarlCorey Colman — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:58:56 +0000

Inigo – you’re right and I regret the closer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:04:42 +0000

I just re-read Mother Night again… The last lines of the 1966 introduction seemed something that a strange person might plug into this rectagular comments box. I am a strange person. So… “There’s [a] clear moral to this tale, now that I thing about it: When you’re dead you’re dead. And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.” After a whole bunch of stuff in the middle, Vonnegut closes with the words, Auf wiedersehen. Peculiar man. Odd sentiments.

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:22:38 +0000

Really Carl? – right up to that last sentence you actualy had the moral high ground…

By: CarlCorey Colman

CarlCorey Colman — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:25:08 +0000

By the way, that last post was me.

And, in case anyone is interested, the author pretending to be Kilgore Trout writing Venus on the Half Shell was Philip Jose Farmer… himself a long time Vonnegut fan.

And, again, to everyone on this thread but Billy and Prok: the same two words as before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:12:58 +0000

Y’know… I agree. This was supposed to be about a great author’s life and death ….

There are like two kinds of people here: those who are serious about honoring them memory of one of the finest human beings to traverse the real landscape and those who want to write something negative about Prokofy in any venue available.

Let me tell you, I’m a newbie here but as far as I can tell, the anti-Prokofy people have failed to gain any credibility with me in my brief time reading this blog. Prok has written interesting posts that I’ve read and appreciated and subsequently been attacked for no clear reason — at least from my newbie point of view. I’ve just shook my head and “tsked” in the past but co-opting this thread, which was clearly started with no ulterior motive, is beyond the pale. You people who find Prokofy so odious have convinced me that I’m clearly not on your side in the future and probably never have been in the past.

Oh.. yeah, I agree with Billy Pilgrimreaper: Fuck you.

By: Billy Pilgrimreaper

Billy Pilgrimreaper — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:19:56 +0000

Oh and to you guys arguing over the imaginary term “Glocal” in a thread aboiut the passing of a great literary figure – fuck you.

Go defile a grave or something, like the ignorant monkey shits you are. You haven’t got a clue about literature, so all you can do is throw feces from your tiny-brained google searches of wiKIpeDia and TWITter. Like fucking schoolyard delinquents in a sissy-boy slap fight. Fuck you guys. If I see you in SL I’ll fling a handful of virtual shit in your faces just to make you feel at home – the ignorant monkey shits that you are.

Again – fuck you.

By: Billy Pilgrimreaper

Billy Pilgrimreaper — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:55:38 +0000

God bless you Mr. Vonnegut.

BTW. a decent copy of Venus on the Half Shell can still be had for cheap on Amazon. Even if he didn’t actually write it himself (a ghost writer for a ghost writer of a ghost writer?), I consider it a must-read for a complete picture of the Vonnegut universe. One of my favorite stories next to Richard Brautigan’s “Dreaming of Babylon”. Highly recommended reading.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:23:25 +0000

how many alts do you think you wheel out today, Nolan? Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if all the IP addresses of all the nicks on here were published, and found to be the same person, and found to be you?

By: dildo baggins

dildo baggins — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:01:02 +0000

Well, no offense to the fine upstanding Korporate warriors [an evangelist? isn't that like what reuby linden was? who now blathers on that roi means nothing]that Bag Lady has drafted in to show she’s the hippest thing at local fete “excuse me for a moment vicar, my phone is twittering…my god, it’s a message from spin…I must fly, teh metaversal needs me! another tekificiwiki wrong MUST be righted” but I’ll take 500K google references [even 25K to be honest] over a tiny sample of people on the Korporate talk show circuit.

tho I must say I do like Sin’s fav quote “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” (Oscar Wilde)”

And you, prokofy, you egotistical whining bag of insufferable bloated blogroll bigotry, you are TEDIOUS to the extreme!!!