I am stunned and am now quietly sitting in my chair staring at the wall. I will have more to say later. I did not really know how much Vonnegut meant to me until now.
“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Year / 2007
The First Bat Segundo Haiku!
A certain Elizabeth Crane writes:
I believe we spoke
of making mashed potatoes
on Segundo’s podcast.
The Power of the Written Word
Pink India Ink: “All over the page, words were disappearing. Entire blocks of text were being replaced, one by one, with bare, unprinted paper, winking out of existence as soon as I looked at them. Also, my head was burning. Also, I was starting to sweat profusely. A wave of nauseau hit me, I closed the book, I noted in a casual sort of way that I could no longer feel my fingers, I realized simultaneously that I could no longer see anything at all, and then…” (via Bookdwarf)
Cribbing for Couric
Editor and Publisher: “A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal.”