Maybe first I should learn how to type.
Meanwhile, Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite Hoosier -- Vonnegut and maybe Hoagy Carmichael. Dark or black humor was a Vonnegut trademark, and I intend to bear this in mind as New Gahania lurches forward into the next four years of payola and arrogance.
We'll be compelled to laugh, a lot -- and hope for deliverance from the indictments.
Kurt Vonnegut on Making a Living as a Writer, by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell (The Nation)
You probably won’t have to endure the downsides of fame and fortune. But you can emulate the upsides.
... Joseph Shipley, an Indianapolis native, related this anecdote as I was assisting the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library table at the Brooklyn Book Festival one recent September. As a sophomore in high school, just after reading Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, he passed Kurt Vonnegut himself on the street one fall day in downtown Indianapolis.
“I know you!” Joe blurted.
“No, you don’t,” Kurt replied.
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