Life Is:
Today is Wednesday, 23 August 2006.
On this day in 1966, the American spacecraft, Lunar Orbiter One, took the first photograph of Earth taken from a lunar orbit.
Just learned Ray Bradbury turned 86 yesterday.
One of those things that really … challenges the mind. How could the author of The Martian Chronicles end up becoming a Reaganite?
Doesn’t diminish the permanent glory of his writing, but … what the *&$%^$#%^^& were you thinking, or not thinking, Ray?
Is that why The Who sang, “Hope I die before I get old”?
Of course, chrono-age has no correlation to anything but itself. Many go off the beam at a tender age. Associating any particular mind-frame with an age is chrono-chauvanism.
Maybe that’s why one of the most popular posters I pasted up in NYC (based on how many were carefully scraped off and stolen) was: “Life’s an intolerant straight white male neoconservative, and then you die”.
On this day in 1966, the American spacecraft, Lunar Orbiter One, took the first photograph of Earth taken from a lunar orbit.
Just learned Ray Bradbury turned 86 yesterday.
One of those things that really … challenges the mind. How could the author of The Martian Chronicles end up becoming a Reaganite?
Doesn’t diminish the permanent glory of his writing, but … what the *&$%^$#%^^& were you thinking, or not thinking, Ray?
Is that why The Who sang, “Hope I die before I get old”?
Of course, chrono-age has no correlation to anything but itself. Many go off the beam at a tender age. Associating any particular mind-frame with an age is chrono-chauvanism.
Maybe that’s why one of the most popular posters I pasted up in NYC (based on how many were carefully scraped off and stolen) was: “Life’s an intolerant straight white male neoconservative, and then you die”.
posted by HH at 9:35 AM
2 Comments:
Why does it challenge the mind that the author of the The Martian Chronicles was a Reaganite? Educate me here, because I have not read The Martian Chronicles. Is it a vehicle for political commentary? And, educate me here, too, on indications that Mr. Bradbury "became" a Reaganite or what difference his political bent had on anything or anyone.
Don't know if this is pertinent, but Bradbury really didn't like Michael Moore alluding to "Fahrenheit 451" with "Fahrenheit 9-11".
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