Kurt Vonnegut Live in Second Life on NPR's "The Infinite Mind."

[@p1zd3c]

I was in attendance at this interview, in Second Life. It was amazing.

[@redeyedwhitewhale]

I have this favorite author who taught me that the purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Three years ago he fell and broke his brain and died. So it goes.

[@fantasticsnake]

God Bless you, Mr. Vonnegut

[@marseydotes1941]

This is the best interview I've ever seen/heard/read. Shows what a difference it makes when the interviewer is well informed. Thanks!

[@staphinfection]

Oh man... I love you Kurt. You have turned my into a "thinker" and a reader, and a musician, and a dreamer, and on and on and on.... I hope your dad visited you at your time of death, and you walked on into the light stuck in your most happiest moment ever.

[@MrFuznubz]

man kurt was such a genius, i wish i could have met him, he was a super cool guy and i need to read more of his books. may he push up his daisies in peace

[@eravulgachris]

He really is well informed and it does keep it together very well. Highly enjoyed this interview myself. Here's to Kurt.

[@survivurman]

this shit's pretty weird

[@migget159]

I live in Wisconsin. I work in a lumber mill there. The people I meet when I walk down the street, they ask me my name and I say: My name is Yon Yonson, I live in Wisconsin...

[@podfunk]

We need his books now more than ever. These are dark, dark days for our planet and Kurt understood man's fallibilities as well as any other writer.

[@HunterMann]

RIP The Infinite Mind, a radio program that brought many years of enjoyment and enlightenment to so many people. What a shame that for every NPR show like this there are hundreds of poorly written TV programs and poorly researched news programs. There truly is nothing better than National Public Radio. My huge thanks to the staff of The Infinite Mind, HM

[@Drbolla345]

Me too, he really is an inspirational and intellectual person. Devastating about his death, he really was a great philospher and change the aspect of my life. Glad i attended that day in Second Life. Really was worth it, exactly as you say.

[@trexcellent]

kurt is in heaven now.

[@lcmedia]

Thanks for your kind words. If you search for it on Google Video you can download it from there. Best - LCMedia

[@MrStupididy]

THIS IS SO WEIRD BUT REALLY COOL.

[@54spiritedwill54]

Fascinating. RIP Mr Vonnegut

[@lcmedia]

Thanks for your comment. Please remember, this video represents a 2-D representation of a live event with the same limitations as any 2-D film/video when capturing a live event. For those who were at the live (virtual) event, with Vonnegut, they were able to ask questions of Vonnegut, and discuss with others there. The video is a 2-D way of capturing the event, and as such, things like lip movement become far more apparent than for those who were there live...

[@MatthewGeoffino]

This man is a god among all human beings. There will never in the history of the world be another Vonnegut.

[@Googlemonkey8]

Kurt Vonnegut changed my life.

[@ElDoctorJanItor]

8:23 -- "Which gets him [Bokonon] right off the hook." LOL. Can't tell if the double entendre was intentional...

[@いぬストロメリア]

8:23

[@adamnetsky]

great interview.....

[@KROMO50]

The Infinite Mind was the best show on NPR cant find it anywhere to listen to

[@streakyology]

rip kurt you were one of the good guys

[@colonelmatterson]

R.I.P. Kurt

[@MAUL0r1]

he will be missed.

[@lcmedia]

(Consider, when you attend a concert, can you always see the lips of the singer? Sometime, in an arena, you can barely see them on the stage.) That said, the technology will evolve. (remember, the first films had no sound!) Thanks again for your comment, and best. - LCMedia

[@AlexEvansOhio]

So the whole "Second Life" thing, is sort of weird, but when I have this in another tab and am just listening, this is a really solid interview. Nice job.

[@ptimusk]

He loved cell phones. And so it goes. A reader of Mr Vonnegut in the 1970's Canada.

[@davidvwilliamson]

you got the scansion of the end of the poem wrong: it should be nice, nice, very nice so many different people in the same device

[@zverina]

This is a very good interview. Only one small and possibly confusing interviewer gaff is at 33:20. Taking an audience question with the abbreviation SF in it, interviewer misreads it as "San Francisco" when it was obviously intended to mean "Science Fiction." Poo-tee-weet?

[@zverina]

it was a different pre-television world back then. the Monkeyhouse stories were written for slick magazines at a time when short stories were still a preferred form of escapist entertainment and KV was catering to that market.

[@hamnchee]

i have vista and second life works on it. ...sometimes it shuts down my computer, but usually i'm fine.

[@renrengrin]

I had to laugh like hell.

[@4lung]

holy shit

[@Thelostcup]

Most of his books are satire, man. He's a brilliant writer. R.I.P Kurt.

[@FatManRedemption]

The Bradbury Story was from The Martian Chronicles. That book has more funny moments in it than I would have expected from Ray Bradbury. Then again, it's only the second book of his I've read.

[@Cledus2000]

Kurt, you're a lucky bastard now, too. You don't have the burden of witnessing this mess.

[@NutNapalm]

I think it was a Perfect final interview. From his birth in an era where electricity was a rare commodity to a virtual world generated by machines in one lifetime. Sometimes we have horrible dictators and morons, othertimes, things are good.

[@dalcon555]

i like to believe slaughterhouse-5 that kurt vonnegut is not dead hes perfectly fine in another moment in time.... i like to believe that the warrior mind for the counter-culture

[@SoundTasteLifestyle]

Pretty decent interview.

[@blueknuckle]

So it goes.

[@zverina]

you might be right. i don't see anyone out there assuming the mantle of creative compassionate critique the way KV did...

[@youlosez]

why do I find out about these great authors when they die! I'm a fool for not reading these books at a younger age ;(. I wanted to send him a letter...

[@jimbarris5460]

This is the strangest strangest blend of things

[@AaronCross760]

i have vista and second life works fine, just needed a video driver upgrade..

[@F33bs]

and so on...

[@IrrigatedPancake]

For some reason I never imagined that Vonnegut and O'Reilly could have existed at the same time.

[@kinzaahmed3857]

shucks I missed it!

[@tokyocooney]

This medium had promise Im sure, but for me it would have been fine as a radio broadcast only.... avatars do nothing for me. While this concept is cool, the oint of seeing someones face is that it ADDS meaning to what they are saying.

[@MatthewGeoffino]

My name is Yon Yonson.

[@MrFuznubz]

@beischquee OH MY GOD i would love to have him teach me at some point in my life, it would be such an amazing experience.. i am deeply sorry to hear of his passing, but greatfull that i have experienced his works. he is inspirational

[@UFOBoy99]

@Icantseepolla I love that book so much

[@smillar98]

Great public schools with 12 or less students per class.

[@tsokay]

That was his wished-for epitaph.

[@rforce1]

GREAT!!!! But did you know even SL-Transformers do Yoga: Search: Transformers Yoga

[@philyoufool]

breakfast of champions??? ummm what about his short stories???? harrison bergeron?? welcome to the monkey house??? another one i cant remember the name for that involves playing chess with real people as the pieces, absolute genius

[@VicInNocal]

@migget159 "this is true. but unfortunately a book won't change anything. maybe if kurt made mtv shows instead..." Ain't that the damn sad truth.

[@AnthonyBastien]

i do believe he is part of the viewers karass or possibly theyre karass depending on theyre intention. But he may be a wrang wrang- whis is according to bokonon a person who steers people away from a line of speculation. Just a thought.

[@browncoat3000]

Kurt was a brilliant man, and I disagree, I think he was personally happy. Just disappointed in everyone else.

[@rachelthompson9324]

Fans of Kurt: check out my short story collection, Stalking Kilgore Trout listed under Rachel C Thompson

[@tsokay]

My previous comment was, I mean.

[@MFRedeemerp2]

can i get this recording somewhere?

[@wercs6326]

2022

[@tsokay]

The only proof he ever needed of the existence of God was music.

[@coupdeforce]

He died 8 months after this was recorded.

[@stifledvoice]

is second life still a thing? too bad vonnegut isn't anymore.

[@MaryPinkHair]

LOL I don't think this website is for people to just have fun.

[@migget159]

this is true. but unfortunately a book won't change anything. maybe if kurt made mtv shows instead....

[@BlindCharade]

@philyoufool or the guy with telekinesis

[@tomlubanovic]

That's a funny quote, considering Vonnegut was a staunch atheist.

[@trinthakias]

did u know him personally? .....no?!?!then shut up, Dr. Phil

[@cathrynw]

kilgore trout.

[@gopher001]

no its not

[@a1ina]

you're talking to KURT VONNEGUT, who cares about second life geeezzz

[@bgbreakdown]

Geez, John! Shut up about yourself and you're cartoony thing. Talk to Kurt Vonnegut about Kurt Vonnegut. Cardinal rule of any interview: you get minus 5 points every time you use the word "I". This is not about you.

[@LauraSeabrook]

But is this a karass or a granfalloon?

[@dalriada]

Kurt Vonnegut good. Second Life bad.

[@MissCedarbridge1]

this game is awsome people... Im not sure but I think I know that man