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Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
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Date: June 06, 2012 11:01AM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to ashes, then burn the ashes".
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to ashes, then burn the ashes".
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Lloydster
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Date: June 06, 2012 11:34AM
Shit, just saw this WTL. Sorry all, flame me for the double post.
I could be wrong but I'm right 99% of the time
I could be wrong but I'm right 99% of the time
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
buck off
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Date: June 06, 2012 11:35AM
Lloydster Wrote:
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> Shit, just saw this WTL. Sorry all, flame me for
> the double post.
I already did, douche.
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> Shit, just saw this WTL. Sorry all, flame me for
> the double post.
I already did, douche.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
gas face
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Date: June 06, 2012 11:47AM
Lloydster Wrote:
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> Shit, just saw this WTL. Sorry all, flame me for
> the double post.
We've come to expect your posts to be riddled with retardation.
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> Shit, just saw this WTL. Sorry all, flame me for
> the double post.
We've come to expect your posts to be riddled with retardation.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Vexxxed
()
Date: June 06, 2012 12:49PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/auth
> or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
>
> If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> ashes, then burn the ashes".
I could have swore he'd died a couple of years ago.
Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd have gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
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> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/auth
> or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
>
> If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> ashes, then burn the ashes".
I could have swore he'd died a couple of years ago.
Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd have gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: June 06, 2012 12:56PM
Vexxxed Wrote:
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> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/auth
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> > or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
> >
> > If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> > ashes, then burn the ashes".
>
>
> I could have swore he'd died a couple of years
> ago.
>
> Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd have
> gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been thinking about him.
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/auth
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> > or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
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> > If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> > ashes, then burn the ashes".
>
>
> I could have swore he'd died a couple of years
> ago.
>
> Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd have
> gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been thinking about him.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Vexxxed
()
Date: June 06, 2012 04:24PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > > or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
> > >
> > > If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> > > ashes, then burn the ashes".
> >
> >
> > I could have swore he'd died a couple of years
> > ago.
> >
> > Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd
> have
> > gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
>
>
> Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been
> thinking about him.
Yeah.........I was.
Not many of that lot left.
Don't seem to be many replacements on the horizon either.
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> > >
> > > If they cremate him, they should "burn em' to
> > > ashes, then burn the ashes".
> >
> >
> > I could have swore he'd died a couple of years
> > ago.
> >
> > Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd
> have
> > gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
>
>
> Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been
> thinking about him.
Yeah.........I was.
Not many of that lot left.
Don't seem to be many replacements on the horizon either.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Priapus
()
Date: June 06, 2012 04:33PM
Harlan Ellison is in my deadpool
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: June 06, 2012 06:13PM
Priapus Wrote:
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> Harlan Ellison is in my deadpool
Unless I go back in time and let him get hit by that car.
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> Harlan Ellison is in my deadpool
Unless I go back in time and let him get hit by that car.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: June 06, 2012 06:18PM
Vexxxed Wrote:
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> or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
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> > > > If they cremate him, they should "burn em'
> to
> > > > ashes, then burn the ashes".
> > >
> > >
> > > I could have swore he'd died a couple of
> years
> > > ago.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd
> > have
> > > gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
> >
> >
> > Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been
> > thinking about him.
>
>
> Yeah.........I was.
>
> Not many of that lot left.
>
> Don't seem to be many replacements on the horizon
> either.
We don't have the pulp magazine or short story sci-fi journals anymore that allow people to experiment and grow as writers. So much is riding on a first novel being a hit that publishers are scooping up derivative formulas reworked as teen fantasy (Hunger Games) that have little in common with Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem.
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> or-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
> > > >
> > > > If they cremate him, they should "burn em'
> to
> > > > ashes, then burn the ashes".
> > >
> > >
> > > I could have swore he'd died a couple of
> years
> > > ago.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm psychic............damn. Wish I'd
> > have
> > > gotten some winning lotto numbers instead.
> >
> >
> > Arthur C Clarke died in 2008. You may have been
> > thinking about him.
>
>
> Yeah.........I was.
>
> Not many of that lot left.
>
> Don't seem to be many replacements on the horizon
> either.
We don't have the pulp magazine or short story sci-fi journals anymore that allow people to experiment and grow as writers. So much is riding on a first novel being a hit that publishers are scooping up derivative formulas reworked as teen fantasy (Hunger Games) that have little in common with Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Iron lung
()
Date: June 06, 2012 08:10PM
Will they cremate him at F451? Maurice Sendak died recently too. Now there was a writer that could work a pen(is) well.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
tomahawk
()
Date: June 06, 2012 08:14PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> We don't have the pulp magazine or short story
> sci-fi journals anymore that allow people to
> experiment and grow as writers. So much is riding
> on a first novel being a hit that publishers are
> scooping up derivative formulas reworked as teen
> fantasy (Hunger Games) that have little in common
> with Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem.
We still have a few sci fi magazines like Asimovs, and there are a lot of good writers, but they are buried in the rest of pop culture now. And in Bradbury's day, sci fi was about the bright future, and now the future is starting to look like shit, so SF writers aren't superstars. The really good ones also have to live in the shadow of the pioneers like Heinlein and Clark and Bradbury.
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> We don't have the pulp magazine or short story
> sci-fi journals anymore that allow people to
> experiment and grow as writers. So much is riding
> on a first novel being a hit that publishers are
> scooping up derivative formulas reworked as teen
> fantasy (Hunger Games) that have little in common
> with Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem.
We still have a few sci fi magazines like Asimovs, and there are a lot of good writers, but they are buried in the rest of pop culture now. And in Bradbury's day, sci fi was about the bright future, and now the future is starting to look like shit, so SF writers aren't superstars. The really good ones also have to live in the shadow of the pioneers like Heinlein and Clark and Bradbury.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
WashingTone-Locian
()
Date: June 06, 2012 08:30PM
tomahawk Wrote:
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> We still have a few sci fi magazines like Asimovs,
> and there are a lot of good writers, but they are
> buried in the rest of pop culture now. And in
> Bradbury's day, sci fi was about the bright
> future, and now the future is starting to look
> like shit, so SF writers aren't superstars. The
> really good ones also have to live in the shadow
> of the pioneers like Heinlein and Clark and
> Bradbury.
It's not the same. You used to be able to find Omni or Analog at any grocery store/drug store magazine rack. Omni is gone and I can't recall the last time I saw a copy of Analog.
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>
> We still have a few sci fi magazines like Asimovs,
> and there are a lot of good writers, but they are
> buried in the rest of pop culture now. And in
> Bradbury's day, sci fi was about the bright
> future, and now the future is starting to look
> like shit, so SF writers aren't superstars. The
> really good ones also have to live in the shadow
> of the pioneers like Heinlein and Clark and
> Bradbury.
It's not the same. You used to be able to find Omni or Analog at any grocery store/drug store magazine rack. Omni is gone and I can't recall the last time I saw a copy of Analog.
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http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/13-11.htm
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
eesh
()
Date: June 06, 2012 08:33PM
I miss Ray Bradbury Theater. They had some interesting episodes.
Blessed are the murderous.
Blessed are the murderous.
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
Vexxxed
()
Date: June 06, 2012 08:53PM
WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> It's not the same. You used to be able to find
> Omni or Analog at any grocery store/drug store
> magazine rack. Omni is gone and I can't recall the
> last time I saw a copy of Analog.
Victims of the internet? Not in the same way that the print news media is. But rather in that any good or promising writers can simply publish themselves online and then get lost in a sea of mediocrity?
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> It's not the same. You used to be able to find
> Omni or Analog at any grocery store/drug store
> magazine rack. Omni is gone and I can't recall the
> last time I saw a copy of Analog.
Victims of the internet? Not in the same way that the print news media is. But rather in that any good or promising writers can simply publish themselves online and then get lost in a sea of mediocrity?
Re: Ray Bradbury RIP
Posted by:
G. Roddenberry
()
Date: June 06, 2012 09:22PM
Fuck Bradbury...