Posts Tagged ‘writer’
Home again, home again
Better than one At left, the latest in the continuing selection of "Two Heads Together" photos. This is what happens: SXSW is such a huge, overwhelming event with so much going on at all hours that the idea of blogging it is just insane. Some people appear to have more than 24 hours in a…
Read MoreIn which a 70+ year old man makes things better
OK, much less crankypants for two reasons: 1) Less than an hour before I leave 2) Just had an amazing chat with Harlan Ellison. He's the subject of a new documentary called "Dreams With Sharp Teeth," which will screen at South By Southwest (SXSW) where I'll be in early March. Here is the knock-knock joke…
Read MoreNo second acts
I signed up for America Online in the early 1990s, jst as I was reading a new book, "Harlot's Ghost." It featured a curious and interesting female character named Hadley Kitteredge Montague. And as I first put a toe into the waters of what was for me — and still for most people; bear in…
Read MoreVonnegut ephemera, New York Times style
This, found parked at the bottom of the "non-famous folks"/paid (I believe) obit listings in today's Sunday New York Times. I didn't know his dog was named Flour but, then again, I didn't give it much thought until now: Old Friends
Read MoreFond farewell to Kilgore Trout
Goodbye Blue Monday I sense the next life, if there is one, will be easier on Kurt Vonnegut than this one was. But probably not as funny. "It is done."
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