General Chat 16

Originally posted by thefly108:[..]
I kept it down, but it was enough that I decided not to try the horseradish they had, "Nasal Napalm."

Originally posted by thefly108:[..]
I kept it down, but it was enough that I decided not to try the horseradish they had, "Nasal Napalm."

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:So Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature. No disrespect to him as songwriter, but wtf? They couldn't find an actual writer alive? Maybe Bono wins it next year.
I have nothing against Dylan or famous writers, but the prize is supposed to go to a person whose life was dedicated to literature, not pop culture.

Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
The Nobel Prize has become much like a Grammy or an Academy Award. Almost laughable.

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
No kidding. And they gave the Peace award to Santos, even when his people said no to the Peace agreement.

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:So Bob Dylan won the Nobel prize in literature. No disrespect to him as songwriter, but wtf? They couldn't find an actual writer alive? Maybe Bono wins it next year.
I have nothing against Dylan or famous writers, but the prize is supposed to go to a person whose life was dedicated to literature, not pop culture.

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:it's still WTF. Dylan barely qualifies as a writer. There are still 50 more worthy picks. Adonis, Juan Goytisolo, John Ashbery, just to mention a few.
Maybe next year they can award a blogger or the guy who wrote all those Harambe memes.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

Dylan writes very poetic lyrics poems which have been analyzed and studied for a long time; he also wrote a proper book called Tarantula, similar to Allen Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouak's first books from the mid 60s. It's not like they have awarded Valentino Rossi or something.

C'mon, Winston Churchill won the Nobel in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". THAT is wtf.