I Dislike Your Favorite Team

Aw shit. I also recommend Breakfast of Champions, one of his more batshit crazier novels, but an incredibly fun read.

I think I'll have to read Slaughter-House 5 again this weekend.

Don't forget to thumb your nose at God, Kurt!

Atrios has a little passage from Slaughterhouse Five posted.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_08_atrios_archive.html#117634956734591420

let's try that again.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_08_atrios_archive.html#117634956734591420

An exam question for my graduate class "Clouds and Aerosols" involved a story by Kurt Vonnegut. The question was:

Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist, has a brother Burt who is an expert in cloud seeding. In one of Kurt's books the military is imagined to have invented a thermodynamically stable form of ice (ice 9) whose melting pointing point is above room temperature, The purpose of ice 9 is to make bridges of ice across rivers. What would be the likely outcome of throwing some of this ice 9 into a river?

Answer: The earth would freeze over, as all water would crystalize to form "ice 9".

Here he is on the daily show, I believe just a few months ago:

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=18090&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fshows%2Fthe_daily_show%2Findex.jhtml&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true

Let's all take a moment to honor the great writer.

As for MMMan, I certainly wish I were in a postion to take such a hard "exam" in my "graduate class."

What are you going to write your term paper about? May I suggest "What a cat's asshole looks like"?

Uhm... What?

I believe Badcock-san is referencing "Breakfast Of Champions".

The correct answer is this: "*"

But bigger.

Whoa, looks like someone graduated from "The Harvard of the Mississippi."

English major?

Oh, little known fact about Badcock: although his hatred towards the virulent misuse of "irony" is quite well-documented, he also has another few ill pickles to disgorge when it comes to misuse the mother tongue.

"Referencing." I did not sit through any class in THOTM without someone using this non-word.

What you mean to say is: I was making a reference to Breakfast of Champions. Alternately (but less ably), I was referring to Breakfast of Champions.

"Reference" is a noun. It does not function as a gerund. "Refer" is a verb. It does not function as a gerund.

I also want to add that I love Big BM, and he is one of the most interesting roommates I've ever had.

Badcock you sure is grumpy, which is ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of a way. I suspect your use of tea tree and lavender oils has been too liberal as of late. You need a hug, badcock? I can't actually hug you, so I'll do the next best thing, I'l send you one in emoticon form:

<:d wait that not it.... uhm oh fuck it i send you the next best thing:> Best enjoyed with tea tree oil.