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• Santayana: “I Told You So”

  
  EppsNet: Notes from the Golden Orange — Authority: 136
  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana   “Is that a fact?” she said. “Well–I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time ...
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• Jane Ciabattari on Kurt Vonnegut

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 713
  A wondrous new collection of previously unpublished vintage Vonnegut confirms his enduring and subversive ear for the absurd and the tragicomic. Related Entries December 23, 2009 Carter Atones for ‘Stigmatizing’ Israel December 23, 2009 Sarah Palin Has Her Own Naughty or Nice List
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• Firefighters hold ceremony for new truck

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 147
  San Marcos firefighters welcomed a new fire apparatus to Fire Station No. 2 by reviving an old fire service tradition of pushing the old engine out by hand and pushing the new one in.
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• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Sirens of Titan

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 125
  As part of my anniversary-themed 2009 book list, I re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (30th - 1979) and Sirens of Titan (50th - 1959) over the last couple of days and was noticing some similar themes and reminiscent imagery between them. Lo and behold, via Wikipedia : In a 1979 interview released in ...
  2 weeks ago

• OHares WWII Diary: A Final Glimpse at a Time When We Were "Prima"

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 137
  These are the final entries from my dads brief writing career, a diary which he started almost immediately after being released as a German POW. My father was a complicated man, and I considered him a cold bastard much of the time. These diaries, and some other letters he wrote to his own " mommy and daddy ," opened ...
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• OHares WWII Diary: Half-Starved Soldier Worries About Brother in South Pacific

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 137
  This is the latest installment from my dads short-lived diary, penned shortly after his release from a German POW camp. In these entries, my eighty pound and half-starved father worries about his brother, Art, who was then serving in the South Pacific. Uncle Art was wounded shortly after my fathers posts, but not ...
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• Whatever happened to Lasse Hallström?

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 146
  type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js">No one bats an eye when actors fall from toplining movies into the direct-to-video slough; with theatrical release down 14% from last year, its becoming increasingly common. (Not even a Bruce Willis cameo can save you.) But what does it mean when ...
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• OHares WWII Diary: Still No Word About Dresden Firebombing

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 137
  This is the second in a series of entries from my fathers recently-discovered dairy. He kept it about a week after his release from a German POW camp. This second post, like the first, is strictly present tense. Yet just three months before, my dad and writer Kurt Vonnegut had ringside seats, as POWs, to the ...
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• The Real Slaughterhouse-Five

  
  Barbara Shoup — Authority: 112
  Sixty-five years ago today, Kurt Vonnegut was captured by the Germans, setting in motion the experience that would eventually morph into his greatest novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Two years ago today, I had the privilege of talking with the late Bob Kelton, who shared that experience with him. My friend, Joan, had ...
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• Uneven Exchanges in Writing and Yoga

  
  Get Lost With Easy-Writer — Authority: 119
  First off, I found this great quote on censorship."All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say lets get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned ...
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• OHares WWII Diary: "We are Being Looked After Like Pet Children by the Russians"

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 137
  Writer Kurt Vonnegut s letter home, written soon after his release from a POW camp, was published here early this week . Believe it or not, my dad was the real writer back then - he even kept a diary for a few days. Unlike Vonnegut, he sheds no light on what had actually happened to him as a POW. He provides no ...
  3 weeks ago

• Contrast Podcast: Festive Fifty (34-50)

  
  Muruch — Authority: 430
  You can hear the voices of both Muruch writers Brendan and Vic in the first installment of Contrast Podcast’s Festive Fifty . Brendan introduces “King of the Dogs” from Iggy Pop’s Préliminaires and Vic intros “Nice Very Nice” by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier from Ice-9 Ballads , which is on ...
  3 weeks ago

• what to be

  
  nature calling — Authority: 125
  • "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - From "Mother Night" by American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) •
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• Todays Pop Five: Steve C.s top cat books (that arent about cats)

  
  Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — Authority: 141
  The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Todays contribution comes from Steve C. in Hudson, Texas:
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• Bad Movies Done Right — Counting Down the Hits

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 145
  Teaching children to count can be a tough task. Sometimes kiddos can’t seem to grasp the ideas behind long division or basic trigonometry no matter how hard adults attempt to disguise the lesson as a catchy Schoolhouse Rock! song. Instead of leaving a child’s mathematical education in the hands of a Sesame ...
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• A Christmas Present From Kurt Vonnegut

  
  Lehigh Valley Ramblings — Authority: 137
  A biographer has asked me for information concerning the friendship between my father and author Kurt Vonnegut . My brother, a pack rat, produced a letter that Vonnegut wrote to his own family, not long after he and my dad were released from a POW camp at the end of WWII. In many ways, this three-page letter is his ...
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• Muruch’s Best of the Decade: Albums

  
  Muruch — Authority: 430
  In addition to my usual year end lists , I’ve also compiled Best of the Decade lists . Following are my favorite albums that were released between 2000-2009… Muruch’s Best of the Decade: Albums 25. Muse: The Resistance This is one of those albums that has classic potential, and I expect to move its ...
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• E-book rights for older books become newest battleground in publishing

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 768
  Filed under: Company News , Technology , Media Any publisher worth its salt will tell you that the real money in the business doesnt come from the current bestsellers by Stephanie Meyer and James Patterson, but the backlist: that deep catalog of books that were published years ago. Titles like J.D. Salingers 1951 ...
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• Links: AST Company

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 579
  Responses to the closing of Kirkus Reviews : Horn Book editor Roger Sutton on the magazine’s children’s book coverage: “What Kirkus did was to treat books for children and adults the same in the same publication.” Carolhoda Books editorial director Andrew Karre : “[T]here is no circumstance ...
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• Cramming three weeks worth of work into one

  
  The Word Trade: An Evolution — Authority: 103
  Yeah! The holidays holly daze are here. No, not really, “yeah!” And, bah humbug I started saying “holly daze” a decade ago, gankers. Folks, I do not have the holly daze spirit. It’s been a wonderful year, it’s been a rough year. What’s more, it’s not over yet. Before the New Year dawns, we’ll ...
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