He's 83 and coming out of retirement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4724314.stm

"I'm suing a cigarette company because on the package they promised to kill me, and yet here I am,"

My Grandad is 80 on Monday and he couldn't write a shopping list.

This is great news and that quote is brilliant.

also fairly old news, isn't it? i seem to remember something being posted about this a while back. i'll be damned if im going to bust anyone's chops about posting something that has already been posted... not going to dredge it up... not saying it has been posted... i think it has... but if it was... i wouldn't do that.

i saw him on the daily show a couple of months ago about this. he seemed out of it.

i never really liked vonnegut... i remember reading slaughterhouse five in high school, my mother told me how much she loved him and broke out her old copies of cat's cradle, welcome to the monkey house and deadeye dick... but i just couldn't get into them.

it's probably me.

Yes,

I revcieved a copy of this book a while back. I'm about 3/4 of the way through, kind of boring if you have read much of his non fiction/autobiographical stuff. I hate to say it because he is a hero of sorts to me, but this bookjust kinda rehashes old things with luke warm enthusiasm.

-K

Glad the man is not dead. Too many cool people dying as of late.

dynamite. reminds me of my grandfather.

You can listen to a recent interview with him (from the R4 arts show, Front Row) here.

That page is dated 17th Feb so I thought it was brand new information.