If this isn’t nice, then what is?

2022-0909

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

I came across If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young¹, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut²’s commencement speeches he gave.

Vonnegut’s sardonic tone is so unequivocally unique and succinct.

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“If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Aug. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_This_Isn%27t_Nice,_What_Is%3F:_Advice_to_the_Young. Accessed 29 Sept. 2022. ↩
“Kurt Vonnegut.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Sept. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut. Accessed 29 Sept. 2022. ↩

2022-1022

1900s · 2000s · American · Hip Hop · Musician · R&B · Soul

Do doh da dada tay

Erykah Badu

Nobody compares to Erykah Badu—she is and always has been, O‑riginal, timeless, and superduperfresh. ***

2022-1020

1800s · American · Author · biography · writing

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Found it here. ***

2022-1016

1900s · 2000s · Actor · American · funny · Midland Texas · sick burn bruh

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Woody Harrelson

So many odd and interesting things with Bill Maher sitting down with Woody Harrelson, smoking and drinking with the tape rolling. I really don’t know too much about either one of these dudes—least of …

2022-1004

1900s · 2000s · American · Butcher Hollow KY · love · lyrics · Singer

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

Loretta Lynn

When I was a boy, our family would visit my Grandma in South Boston, Virginia—usually for a week in the summer or a long Thanksgiving weekend. She was tall and loud with a head full of greying, fiery red …

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