killgore Trout was here.

Post by **mcrib** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:54 pm

Kurt Vonnegut died last night. Let us all mourn.

Post by **charlie** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:33 am

So it goes.

Post by **tomdarch** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:05 pm

A buddy of mine played the Pilgrim/Vonnegut character in the premier of the stage adaptation of Slaughterhouse 5 at Steppenwolf. He got to met Kurt and talk about the book/play and Kurt's experiences that led to writing the book. Pretty amazing.

I've been hearing a lot of interviews with Vonnegut - the one that really struck me was him talking about getting home after being in Dresden. There was no media coverage of the fire bombing and the deaths of 30,000 people. Kurt said something to the effect that, well, maybe it never happened and he made it all up. Good to know that today's media haven't slipped that far from the 'good old days.'

Kurt Vonnegut wrote:I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Post by **Zspider** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:12 pm

I went to a lecture he gave at IUPUI. I was all excited about revealing that I suspected him of being Kilgore Trout during the question-answer period. He killed that fantasy right off the bat by openly discussing his Trout books during the lecture.

I read a few of his books, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater and Slaughterhouse Five. I didn't much care for them. I loved Venus on the Halfshell, though.

ZSpiddy

Post by **charlie** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:40 am

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:qg ... =firefox-a

Edited to so you can see google's cache of the Wilco tribute to Vonnegut.....

Post by **caribe** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:00 pm

Kurt Vonnegut
http://www.nndb.com/people/928/000022862/
was one of my favorite atheists. He was brilliant. I think this is brilliant too.
http://www.kurtvonnegut.com/

Post by **charlie** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:03 am

Post by **the lurkist** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:35 am

His stuff is funny. I broke ribs laughing reading God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.

Post by **mcrib** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:14 pm

NPR had a clip from his brief cameo in the Rodney Dangerfield classic Back to School. Rodney's son asked how he planned on writing a paper about Kurt Vonnegut then there is a knock on the door and there is Kurt Vonnegut.

Post by **Mboss** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:08 pm

I started reading Vonnegut when I was around 16. It was a perfect time in my life to be hooked on Vonnegut. His books can be read in a single sitting, which I love. His books are ridiculous, thus funny, apocalyptic and political in nature.

Plus, he's always making fun of the Hoosiers. I dig that in Vonnegut world, Hoosiers are kind of like another species.

Vonnegut also wrote a piece for the Rolling Stone in 1998 about the coming of the millenium; it was around the time I was graduating from high school. I cut it out and still have it saved in a box full of memories from my liberal idealistic youth.

And so it goes.