3 Replies to “Video of the day: Ray Bradbury Nov. 12, 1971 at JPL … [Darleen Click]”

1. jdw says:

   June 9, 2012 at 1:33 pm

   A decent write up by Bruce Sterling, himself a well-known SF author, in the NYT…

   His pedigree was impeccable, though. He came from “Lassfuss,” the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a primeval caldron of sci-fi geek culture, founded in 1934. In my own caldron of Austin, our literary mentor, Chad Oliver, came to us from Lassfuss. He told how he and Bradbury and the “Twilight Zone” screenwriter Charles Beaumont would hunt for all-night burger joints, talking sci-fi until dawn.

   It sounded so wondrous that we never understood that we were hearing a hard-times story. This was Depression-era California, and the real Bradbury was displaced from the Midwest to Hollywood, like a Steinbeck Okie, one of countless thousands who went West and inadvertently created a big chunk of postwar culture.

   He was so poor that he used to borrow sci-fi magazines from kiosks, read and replace them. He wrote “Fahrenheit 451” on a coin-operated typewriter.

2. motionview says:

   June 10, 2012 at 8:45 am

   Tough to see. The video of a step-father playing catch and delivering a belt spanking.

3. motionview says:

   June 10, 2012 at 9:13 am

   The lack of self-awareness, it is strong in this one.

   But the real problem isn’t Limbaugh. He’s just a businessman who is paid to reduce complex cultural issues to ad hominem assaults.

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