Thursday, June 5, 2008

drawing

drawing. No time to post.

However, you are ordered to listen to this:


Harlan Ellsion is the man. A cranky writer who could have given Kurt Vonnegut a lesson in curmudgeon-iness. I love his thoughts on modern fiction and the internets. He's also a fantastic weirdo. C'mon, the guy has a super-neat house with secret rooms and 250,000 books that he calls Ellison Wonderland. What's not to like. If the player doesn't work go here. Listen to the uncut interview as well, it's worth it.

listening to while posting: nothing

6 comments:

Dean Wormer said...

Thanks for that. Ellison has that genius/ crazy thing going which really comes out in that interview.

Here's a good clip of him on the Writer's strike-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE

Arkonbey said...

You're welcome, Dean. I watched that vid last night. What's great is it isn't just the basic 'I'm old, so what do I care if somebody's offended?'; he's always been like that.

I really want to see the new biopic. Great title, too: Dreams With Sharp Teeth.

ladybug said...

Very interesting guy..probably would stay on the other side of the room if I saw him at a party though...not into boob grabs! I'll be content to read his works...

Arkonbey said...

LB:Yeah, the womanizing is a one of his least nice traits. He's fun to listen to, but in person the force of his personality is probably off-putting

Don Snabulus said...

HE is interesting at times, but I prefer KV. Watching HE on the YouTube vid, he looked like a Lewis Black that wasn't joking but actually couldn't control his anger.

Swinebread said...

boy, he sure doesn't suffer fools does he. Very interesting though.

It was a nice reminder that Fantasy had a much broader meaning at one point