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POPSKurt Vonnegut explains drama Continued from clip: “But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think are lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.” That's why people invent fights. That's why we're drawn to sports. That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal. We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.
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POPSAnagrams are Cool! I'm no good at 'em, but I love them anyway. There's LOTS more where these came from. Isn't the English language fun?
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POPSShort Stories in Eight Easy Rules by Kurt Vonnegut Posted in '07 by MonkeyKnifeFight, MOG user. Rule 6 is almost too apt. Rule 8 is debatable, though Vonnegut doesn't say you have to give readers correct information, just as much information as possible. For more clues as to how to convince your readers to look the wrong way at just the right moment, consult J.K. Rowling. :)
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POPSHate Crime @ Holocaust Museum
This is an interesting cross-section of responses to yesterday's shooting at the Holocaust Museum. There were also comments asking what it was okay to propose 'hateful' policies against Hispanic illegal aliens or why it was okay for Israel to hate and make war in Gaza and the West Bank. What struck me? -- Well, more and more Big Lie cliches are being shouted around: the shooter was instantly perverted, for example, because he was a 'Holocaust Denier,' when (like Ahmadinejad of Iran) - they are not Denying the Holocaust they say it gets too much attention and is being used to cover up the crimes of Israel today. That's a big difference but the Big Lie quickly wants to shout that idea down. I, myself, wonder: Why do we have a Holocaust Museum? I mean, if you like that theme of museum focusing on human suffering and abuse why not a Native American Indian Genocide Museum? -- at least that would be part of American History. Or maybe a Gitmo Torture Museum? Or a Potato Fami
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POPSKurt Vonnegut & Tom Robbins When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here.'' Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)
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POPS*gasms* one of my favorite authors? -Lovecraft one of my favorite directors? del Toro together? - mental gasm.
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POPSSurviving the Fourth of July by Chris Hedges “As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary,” Proust wrote. “It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place. …”
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