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• Notes For November 10th, 2009

  
  The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP — Authority: 125
  This Day In Writing History On November 10th, 1973, copies of Slaughterhouse-Five , (1969) the classic novel by legendary writer Kurt Vonnegut, were burned by administrators of a high school in Drake, North Dakota, as per the orders of the Drake School Board. An English teacher at the high school had assigned ...
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• Seeing a little something of life – NYT review of Vonnegut’s ‘Look at the Birdie’

  
  piran caf — Authority: 122
  Nice review last week in the NY Times of Look at the Birdie, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, which was instantly put on my Xmas gift list — for others, and for me. From Dave Eggars’ intro:It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not [...]
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• Saturday Night Fever

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 439
  Saturday night, and I cant stop reloading the blogs to see how health care is doing. Image at the right via kate. * The White House press corps does not believe you have not heard of V . * Democratic congresswomen shouted down by Republicans. Matt has the video , and its pretty astounding. * Krugman: ...
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• Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #43]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 130
  The NY Review of Books Reviews Three Recent Books on Prisons http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23382 1. With approximately 2.3 million people in prison or jail, the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world—by far. Our per capita rate is six times greater than Canada’s, eight ...
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• Vital Statistics

  
  What's New With Mick — Authority: 103
  Bike odometer: 2557 Aches & pains: numbness in left thigh Current reading: Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Recent listening: Son Volt, Seals & Crofts, Firefall, Bread, Brave Combo Recent viewing: Fringe, Glee, Mad Men, The Colbert Report Recent playing: Doodle Jump , geoDefense Recently ...
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• Remember Remember the Fifth of November

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 439
  Remember remember the fifth of November. * Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Michele Bachmann has her party primed and ready to go ; how are you celebrating? * Ezra Klein, with an assist from the CBO, tackles the Republican health care "plan." The Democratic bill, in other words, covers 12 times as many people and saves $36 ...
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• Bowstring unpretending & Dangerfields technician

  
  what gets me hot — Authority: 523
  visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com Loading Image...Bowstringunpretending & Dangerfields technician, bolts Reconstruction, touchiness vibratory slide ineffectualness, rephrasing and... What Gets Me Hot Post Summary. Please Visit Site for Full Post.
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• And So It Goes: Rereading Vonnegut, and a quote on semicolons

  
  James Preller's Blog — Authority: 466
  Listen: I’ve been on a little Vonnegut kick lately, and it’s been a happy time. I just reread Breakfast of Champions , and I’m halfway into Cat’s Cradle , after tearing through this one, published posthumously: While I’ve got you — as my father would say — take a gander at this photograph ...
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• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
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• as soft-spoken executrix

  
  detritus. — Authority: 131
  The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it. — Kurt Vonnegut in Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction reviewed this morning by Dave Eggers in the New York Times Book Review.
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• conversations I would have with my younger self

  
  Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy — Authority: 126
  What would I say, if I could, to my younger self?  You know, if we went for drinks at a Mexican joint, and I began a sentence with, "Okay, there’s something you should know…" what would follow?  It’s easy to tent a blanket of "Don’t take life so seriously" on it, but that’s like telling someone to "just ...
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• Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut

  
  books, the universe, and everything — Authority: 121
  Look at the Birdie is the second posthumous collection by Kurt Vonnegut. The first was Armageddon in Retrospect, which came out last year. I thought this collection was a lot better than Armageddon in Retrospect. Armageddon had some good stories... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Have I Got a Car for You?

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
  by Kurt Vonnegut A few years back, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story outlining his theory behind why he was never awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature.  The answer: his hatred for Saabs.  Excerpt below, more here . I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, ...
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• One for the Good Guys

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Kurt Vonnegut
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• Kurt Vonnegut: “A Saab Could Drag A VW At A Stoplight” [Car Art]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 737
  Of course you all know that Kurt Vonnegut used to manage a Saab dealership in Massachusetts before he became a famous writer. But any day is a good day to relive his fun tale. A tale which may have cost him the Nobel Prize in Literature! In a short piece titled Have I Got a Car for You! , published in November ...
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• Thoughts after MileHiCon, before World Fantasy

  
  Robert Stikmanz — Authority: 98
  As I motored south on the way home from MileHiCon 41 in Denver, I found myself thinking long and hard about the place of my work in the fantasy genre. These reflections were timely, as I was simultaneously reviewing the whats and whys of my coming trip to San Jose for World Fantasy Con this [...]
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• Fox News "24/7 Anti-Obama Oppositon" & "Becks Language Scary "

  
  Gord's Poetry Factory — Authority: 127
  Anyway Kudos to "Liberal Viewer" at Youtube for an excellent job analyzing and deconstructing Faux Fox News. President Obama has finally taken a stand against Fox News. Fox News claims to a non-partisan "Fair and Balanced" news network. If so they should prove it. Instead they unfair and unbalanced as they are the ...
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• The #1 surveillance society in the world, the UK, focuses on "domestic extremism"

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 132
  make no mistake... these same tactics are being used in the u.s., its just that the u.s. doesnt have as deep a tradition of investigative journalism that is willing to ferret them out... all emphases added... Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and ...
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• "How embarrassing to be human."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 502
  “How embarrassing to be human.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 423
  Want to give this year’s Halloween celebration a Lovecraftian flavor? Then Propnomicon is the site for you. Now here’s somebody who really does it up brown for Halloween. The Martian invasion alone must have required a second mortgage. A Chicago boy, Roger Ebert, writes about another Chicago boy , James ...
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