Kurt is up in Heaven now.

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ”

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.

The only words in this blog that are not quotes of Kurt Vonnegut who died yesterday:
Several years ago my friend Whitney said that Kurt Vonnegut taught her how to read. I always wished I could claim that idea as my own. What had I read before Cat's Cradle? Not much that wasn't in my school library in springfield, missouri. Now there is a sizable V section in my home library (aka: the big green shelf.)

and from wikipedia:
In the novel Timequake, Vonnegut writes that his alter-ego, Kilgore Trout, (also) dies at the age of eighty-four.

now, back to the quotes:

"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.''

"And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in Heaven now.' That’s my favorite joke."

You're a philospher?

Yes.
if by philosopher you mean someone who gets 97% on their upper-division Philosophy of Science midterm. (and by you're you mean me.)

Sorry to gloat, but i got an 82 on the last one.

Is this real?
Real funny, maybe. Real mean?
"These fishsticks are hard as tits!" -can a normal person make that up?

Easter Bunnies

In case you are wondering why it is so damn cold this late in the year, this past weekend when Jesus came out of his cave (tomb?) he must have seen his shadow and gone back in, so we get six more weeks of winter.

That is why we need bunnies around, to keep us warm. And to comfort us on cloudy days.