Countercultural?

The Drudge head at the news of the death of Kurt Vonnegut, "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84... "

Thing is, who amongst us who graduated high school after 1975 hasn't been assigned Slaughterhouse Five in at least one class before their graduation?

I was assigned that book 3 times between 9th and 12th grade.

It's an anti-war, morally relativistic, generally nihilistic portrayal of the human condition. Those are all MAINSTREAM values since the mid-70s.

When it was written, it could be called 'countercultural', but the 'counterculture' is so deeply entrenched (also tired, reactionary, and conservative in the strictest sense of the word), that to still call his works 'countercultural' is to miss the point of what it means to be 'countercultural'.

I liked Kilgore Trout's novel better than any of Funny Guts works, but that's just me.

He Would Have Lived to 110 . . .

. . . if he hadn't been a smoker.

And if you like that sort of thing, the house blends at The Tinder Box are supposed to be good stuff.

(never been a smoker myself, but my father continues to enjoy his pipe tobacco now and again, and has been a Tinder Box customer since before he was legally able to be so)

He Was Brain Dead Long Ago, His Body Finally Caught Up . . .

. . . said the ex-English Major forced to read his crappy work.

R I P

(jerk)

To apply his pet theory

• The original Baudrillard has ceased.
• The counterfeit Baudrillards continue to represent 'Baudrillard-ness' for most 'consumers' of his philosophical production.
• From a few counterfeits they have reproduced themselves exponentially at campuses across the globe.
• The simulated Baudrillards "or third order simulcra" are now the only Baudrillards that anyone knows, the copies of Baudrillard are now and forever more, more real than the 'real' Baudrillard ever was or ever could have been.