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it’s been a while since i’ve blogged. since my last entry i’ve had a computer die and had a break in internet service. it’s been a little like being dead.
speaking of dead, i would like to note the passing of mr. vonnegut. i always thought of him as one the best of us, a cheesy sci-fi writer who convinced the world that everything he wrote was a metaphor. i remember arguing with my entire high-school lit class that slaughter house five was a science fiction novel. the teacher was particularly condescending when she said that the time travel was just a delusion. my co-worker johnny motard refuted that neatly when he said "if the time travel’s not real then the book’s no fun at all."
i had one other vivid moment related to vonnegut. i was standing in line at the 7-11, with a pair of big bite hotdogs (two for a dollar), and there was a flatscreen monitor above the cash register facing out toward the customers. it was a crass tactic to feed consumers more advertising. in the lull between a nike commercial and an advertisement for big bite hotdogs, the flatscreen went black, and in tiny, white print displayed the following text:
"Be careful who you pretend to be. Because you are who you pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut
it was the last place in the world that i would have expected a self-reflective fugue. but there it was. i think kurt would have appreciated it.