Kilgore Trout said it best:

[Tyler Durden]

In response to seeing the question "What is the purpose of life?" spray painted on a bathroom wall:

"To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!"
- Kilgore Trout in "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut

[FloridaJudy]

1. So It Goes.

----sigh----

Another of my heroes takes leave of this world, leaving it a lesser place.

http://tinyurl.com/2kzwok

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. Although I have conciously forgotten that, I have lived it throughout my life.

Although I am so sad at his passing (been in tears over this), he will remain immortal through his words. I recently introduced him to my younger son who needed a book to read for school. I gave him Slaughterhouse Five, which he just finished yesterday. Irony?

In Vonnegut I found a soul mate. He wrote about my deepest, unspoken thoughts, and made me feel less alone on this planet.

[FloridaJudy]

4. Vonnegut

When my son went off to college, I gave him a copy of Cat's Cradle.

He later posted it as a favorite on My Space. It's nice to know I must have done something right as a mother.

[Annces]

3. If only there were more like him teaching

in grade schools and high schools. He was a contrast to the mean, thoughtless authoritarians I had to listen to as a young person.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Ah, kiss 'im goodbye and find the new one! She or he is out there right now,

living the twisted hell of a modern resource war with one eye on the twerp in the White House and other other on the Great Universe--and the other on the crapass dead hamburger that just got shoved through the driveup window by a person in a clown suit. And it's that third eye that we know and love, and that will get us all to Heaven with Kurt. And this strange Kurt Vonnegut II is just now trying to get published, and finding out that all the publishing houses belong to GE. So they're cranking it out on an old mimeograph machine they found at a garage sale in Fresno about 50 years ago. And they're inserting pages of it into the Fresno Bee down at MacDonald's to surprise the customers who come in alone and spend lunch reading the newspaper. Surprise, surprise! Kurt Vonnegut is alive and well!

"Did you see that hexagon on Saturn? That's the ticket outa here," Kurt writes. "It's the Reverse Armageddon. All the Bushites have to stay here. The rest of us get to go."

[symbolman]

6. Some are trying to save the environment

:)

[NormanYorkstein]

7. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater

You love me? Your love is like a roll of toilet paper, you give out one square at a time to anyone who walks by.

(sorry for the bad paraphrase I'm working from memory here)

[mopinko]

8. the only thing i can really thank my ex-husband for-

is introducing me to kurt vonnegut, 30+ years ago.
thanks for that one good thing, chuckles.

(yes, there is the daughter, but i did a most of that myself)