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Foma* (Free subscription) | yesterday
Books Bought See the Special Vacation Edition post Books Read Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Mark Vonnegut The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald Comments For rock stars, death has always been a good career move. For writers, not so much. Often before the corpse is cold, the vultures are rifling through the file cabinet and the trash can for anything that can be sold as...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Libby Mihalka submits: “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.” - Kurt Vonnegut Having experienced a multitude of market crises, I realize that history never repeats itself exactly, so I’d be arrogant not to admit that almost anything can happen from here. It is a distinct possibility that things will get worse before they get better in the stock market....
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Lakers (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Just wanted to share a link from the Kurt Vonnegut of NBA writers, Mark Heisler at the Times, who has been following the US basketball team through Asia this month. As fans had done when Bryant went to the free-throw...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Wowio, the ad-supported book site, once worried me. I didn’t see enough ads in the free PDF files. Someone had to pay for this feast. Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn—those were among the distinguished writers whose works you could download for free. Wowio catered to comic fans, but it offered plenty else, in [...]
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
vonnegutSTYLE 1. Find a subject you care about Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way --- although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about...
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Joystiq (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Filed under: Culture A brief interview with Hideo Kojima at Variety isn't so much full of megatons - he hasn't read much Haruki Murakami but he does enjoy Phillip Dick and Kurt Vonnegut - as it is with some insights into the supposed "end" of his Metal Gear Solid series. Kojima shares some of his thought process on the creation of "Old Snake" - "I made him this way because of the unique characteristics...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to “look up ain’t and like.” These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us, to determine whether a dictionary is “descriptive” or “prescriptive”—if it explains how language is used or if [...]
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
In a 1966 review of the new Random House Dictionary, Kurt Vonnegut wrote that the key to understanding a new dictionary was to "look up ain't and like." These two definitions are the quickest way, Vonnegut promises us, to determine whether a dictionary is "descriptive" or "prescriptive"—if it explains how language is used or if it decrees how it ought to be. [ more ... ]
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ideonexus (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
“There should have been a Secretary of the Future.” - Kurt Vonnegut Wired has a great article online covering their failed predictions from the past, which includes the death of brands and online song-sharing. One of their more ridiculous claims was that “futurism is dead.” Far from dead, Futurism has merely become a more esoteric interest, but [...]
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My Domestic Church (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing Writing advice from Kurt Vonnegut tags: writing , homeschool StumbleVideo This is adorable! tags: fun , babies The McCall Pattern Company Butterick Patterns, McCall's Patterns, Vogue Patterns, Wallies tags: sewing How To Get a Flat Stomach | eHow.com tags: fitness Dewey Decimal Classification System Now you can look up the Dewey Decimal System from your own...
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BTC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth This month’s selection is a pair of books that plot out future American dystopias as envisioned in 1952. I think it’s an interesting time, in that even in heyday of the American capitalist mythology, a few authors were still frustrated enough [...]
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Nick's Bytes (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) H aving three years of blogging and over one thousand posts disappear in an instant was a real downer! It was so much of a downer that, as downers have a way of doing, I benefited from the experience. Yeah, I meant to say that...
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InkFinger (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I did this blind contour drawing of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. a little while back, and decided to add some color and sell prints of it. It turned out really nice. The prints are really big, so if anyone is interested...
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Writelife (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books: At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight [...]
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Nerve Endings Firing Away (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Kurt Vonnegut offers tips to write with style. Luckily for us Indians, point#5 is in our favor but again that’s no excuse to insert Hinglish phrases in every sentence. Understand, no?
