Kurt Vonnegut in Back to School

It really does seem like only yesterday I was sitting in the theater watching this movie, but I had since forgotten that Kurt Vonnegut had a cameo in it. I remember he stuck out like a sore thumb in it back then, even. He was the real deal. I can't think of many "contemporary" writers who come even close to being as cool as Kurt Vonnegut was. Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald. Or George Orwell........nahhhh, too dark. Very little joy there. Jack London? Tim Robbins? Heller? I'd say Hunter S. Thompson, but Thompson's creepiness takes away from some of his cool for me. And he didn't really write fiction.


Damn that's funny

Unrelated to Vonnegut, I'd also forgotten Oingo Boingo appeared, playing "Dead Man's Party":

So it goes

"Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84"

The irony of his being born on Veteran's Day is not lost on him, I'm sure. Vonnegut is, of course, the author of one of the great, American anti-war novels, Slaughterhouse-Five. A Purple Heart recipient, Vonnegut was an advance scout with the U.S. 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. He witnessed, first-hand, the bombing of the once beautiful city Dresden, Germany, while being held as a prisoner of war.
Dresden, before and after. So it goes.
Favorite Vonnegut novels (in no particular order):



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Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut

It's Kurt Vonnegut's birthday. The irony of his being born on Veteran's Day is not lost on him, I'm sure. Vonnegut is, of course, the author of one of the great, American anti-war novels, Slaughterhouse-Five. A Purple Heart recipient, Vonnegut was an advance scout with the U.S. 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge. He witnessed, first-hand, the bombing of the once beautiful city Dresden, Germany, while being held as a prisoner of war.
Dresden, before and after

Thanks, Adolf (look what you forced us to do)! So it goes.

Favorite Vonnegut novels (in no particular order) are:


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