"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
Kurt Vonnegut
Some of you may have guessed that I'm a fan of Vonnegut, though I can't imagine why ;). In some ways being a fan of his has become cliche over the years, but hey, he was just so damn witty, biting and insightful (on human nature, life, death, politics, you name it)...how could I *not* be a fan?
Anyway, enjoy this interview with Vonnegut's son, and if you never have (or haven't in a long time), go out and get a Vonnegut book, trust me, you owe it to yourself. If that's too daunting of a task (because of the time and or money), remember he has a lot of short stories and there are a lot of used book stores. If you think fiction is a waste of time, I disagree though understand. With that said, you may well learn more from a Vonnegut book than that non-fiction book you're reading.
http://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Retrospect-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0399155082Obviously Slaughterhouse Five is his most famous work (for good reason), but he has many other great writings. He was a brilliant, complicated man, and I really regret never hearing him speak in person.
All right, enough of my rambling, here's the interview. Mark Vonnegut joins Cenk and Wes Clark Jr (yes, General Wesley Clark's son) to talk about his father:
http://youngturks.wmod.llnwd.net/a591/o1/4-03-08Vonnegut.wmvAlso, here's a great Rolling Stone piece on Vonnegut and his thoughts on Bush:
Vonnegut's Apocalypse
He survived being captured by the Nazis and the suicide of his mother to write some of the funniest, darkest novels of our time, but it took George W. Bush to break him
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11123162/kurt_vonnegut_says_this_is_the_end_of_the_worldPS---I'm also, as you may have guessed, a huge fan of The Young Turks (aka, TYT). A thank you to them for this interview.
www.theyoungturks.com