Many things have changed drastically over the years. Technology is amazing and has helped us, but in other ways I feel it is harming us as a society. I read the other day where Encyclopedia's are not being printed anymore, "unbelievable." My grandson started kindergarten on Monday and the teacher said to have him use the computer mouse more than the touch screen on his I pad, freaking amazing. This article gives a list of 23 things that are different now than back in the day. These are funny , and will make you think. Very interesting article. http://jokerry.com/23-difference-between-then-and-now/Share your comments and as usual feel free to browse through my site. Have a good ay.--Keith
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As affable and loquacious as he was, Kurt Vonnegut disliked interviews. In Palm Sunday, he mentions his distaste for the process itself, of being subjected to an interviewer's desperate attempts at carving open his brain in order to mine it for ideas.
Considering his objections, we are rather lucky that Kurt Vonnegut still went under the interviewer's knife from time to time, for few people have ever had as many interesting things to say as he did. His insights into writing were especially valuable, sage, and practical. Here are 15 funny and wise examples. 1. “I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.” —To Robert Taylor. Boston Globe Magazine. July 20, 1969. 2. “When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaningless of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —To the Paris Review. Spring 1977. 3. “Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands.” —To Mel Gussow. The New York Times. October 6, 1970. 4. “If you want to make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.” —To the Paris Review. Spring 1977. 5. “You can’t write novels without a touch of paranoia. I’m paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.” —To Israel Shenker. The New York Times. March 21, 1969. 6. “I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.” —To the Paris Review. Spring 1977. 7. “The reason novels were so thick for so long was that people had so much time to kill. I do not furnish transportation for my characters; I do not move them from one room to another; I do not send them up the stairs; they do not get dressed in the mornings; they do not put the ignition key in the lock, and turn on the engine, and let it warm up and look at all the gauges, and put the car in reverse, and back out, and drive to the filling station, and ask the guy about the weather.” —To Joe David Bellamy and John Casey. From The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers. 8. “My reason for writing is unfortunately in line with Hitler’s and Stalin’s: I think writers should serve their society.” —To Publishers Weekly. March 22, 1971. 9. “Jokes are efficient things and they must be as carefully constructed as mouse traps. And so for me to write a page of a novel is a very slow business, because the whole thing has to be rigged in order to snap at the end. My books are essentially mosaics, thousands and thousands of tiny little chips all glued together, and each chip is this thing I learned to do—this thing I learned to make as a child—which is a little joke.” —To Frank McLaughlin. Media and Methods. May 1973. 10. “I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don’t want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that’s the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.” —To the Paris Review. Spring 1977. 11. “I suppose that every writer is a gadfly; the crude term that every writer would like to do is mind-f**king. It’s to get into somebody else’s head. In a Bible-belt area like here it would be a felony to mind-f**k somebody.” —To Hank Nuwer. South Carolina Review. Spring 1987. 12. “Novel writing doesn’t breed serenity. It is lying, you know, and the novelist has to spend a lot of time during the course of his writing worrying about whether he is going to get away with his lies. If he fails to, his novel isn’t going to work.” —To Charles Reilly. College Literature. 1980. 13. “People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.” —To Wilfred Sheed. LIFE. September 12, 1969. 14. “I like everything there is about being a writer except the way my neighbors treat me. Because I honor them for what they are, and they really do find me irrelevant on Cape Cod. There’s my state representative. I campaigned for him, and he got drunk one night and came over and said, ‘You know, I can’t understand a word you write and neither can any of your neighbors…so why don’t you change your style, so why not write something people like?’ He was just telling me for my own good. He was a former English major at Brown.” —To Joe David Bellamy and John Casey. From The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers. 15. “Writers get a nice break in one way, at least: They can treat their mental illnesses every day.” —To Playboy. July 1973. Additional Sources: Allen, William Rodney (Ed.). (1988). Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. I am sure this guy had many rules for writing, but here are list of the top 20. My favorite one is number 19. Most of the best writer's and musicians in this world have never took a class or lesson. Stephen King's imagination is brilliant, and I was really surprised by some of the rules on his list. Which one is your favorite one, do you agree with them all? Tell me what you think of this article from Barnes and Noble. http://goo.gl/VG53hI As always have a good day and feel free to browse.--Keith
This is just a small portion of the health benefits from this medication. Yes, in most places it is considered a medication. I am a counselor in a rehab and we give people referrals to get this medication. It is kind of funny though, a person goes to rehab and gets on weed. Times have changed since I started this field twenty one years ago. Facts are facts, this is a helpful medication. Do the research. Have a good day.--Keith 1. It can stop HIV from spreading throughout the body
2. It slows the progression of Alzheimer's 3. It slows the spread of cancer cells 4. It is an active pain reliever 5. It can prevent or help with opiate addiction 6. It combats depression, anxiety and ADHD 7. It can treat epilepsy and Tourette's 8. It can help with other neurological damage, such as concussions and strokes 9. It can prevent blindness from glaucoma 10. It's connected to lower insulin levels in diabetics Cinematography has advanced so much in the past years. Also I have noticed as we all have that the price has risen dramatically as well. When I was a kid, it cost $1.50 for early afternoon showing, and $3.50 for a later movie, now it is much more. I ran across this article which is 129 of the best movie shots ever made. http://goo.gl/P4V0S0 It is really cool, and is worth flipping through. Many who have read my novel Shop Side say it should be made into a move, maybe someday I will be one of these 129, lol. Have a good day Keith.
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