Ray Bradbury, distinguished author, visionary, and crusader for personal travel via pneumatic tubes helps the disembodied voice of Stan Freberg pimp Sunsweet Pitted Prunes.
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Posted at 10:49 am on March 18, 2008
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Here There Be Regularity.
Comment by racerabbit — March 18, 2008 @ 11:09 am
Have you seen Bradbury lately? Looks like he could use regularity more than ever. Perhaps constipation is why I don’t recall seeing anything new out of him in decades, and why he wants us now to believe Fahrenheit 451 is not so much a nuanced anti-censorship parable as it is a hamfisted anti-TV screed.
Comment by License Farm — March 18, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
That’s alright, as prune commercials go. It’s a little odd seeing a scifi author endorsing anything.
Comment by Mike — March 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Ironicly, he did publicly endorse George W. Bush and the War on Terror in 2001.
Comment by Leo — March 18, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
Leo: so did I, if that bugs you!
Comment by John Brownlee — March 18, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
You guys are too young to remember Stan Freeberg, but he was the pied piper of the generation that grew up in the 50s. Almost the ONLY voice of rejection of the status quo and Corporate Normalcy at the time. As for Bradbury, he is a great writer (read October Country), but hardly a realistic thinker. And as for you, Brownlee, get your rifle and helmet; you’re drafted.
Comment by Mogo the Mugger — March 19, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
it is odd to see him endorsing something
Comment by Nascar — March 20, 2008 @ 10:59 am