i actually have no problem with this. one of the most influential writers of the last century. for literary and extra-literary reasons.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
Morrissey is fuming whatdoyowannabet
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link
A thousand think pieces about white male songwriters and I am a millennial and I don't like Bob Dylan being pitched right now
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
My biggest fear is that the people who has lobbied for a songwriter to be considered a great poet will move on to try and get a scriptwriter recognized as a great dramatis. Woody Allen 2020, people. It's coming.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
if you asked most of the people who are on those nobel-wannabe lists and people who are living who have one a nobel if he deserved to win one they would probably say: hell yeah!
especially poets of a certain age.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
braced for the incoming hot takes drawing parallels between obama's nobel and dylan's
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:18 (seven years ago) link
Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you
peaked in the early '70s? challopsy
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
Dylan's would be like Obamas if he won it in 1962
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
hot take #1, keep 'em coming
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
man the Hillary campaign will stop at nothing when it comes to defeating Trump, eh?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Dylan's lyrics are poor as poesy. The Nobel should have gone to Caetano Veloso.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
first nobel laureate to star in a superbowl halftime commercial!
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― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
not to mention victoria's secret
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
oh wait that was prob it
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
that one yes, also chrysler and pepsi.
there really isn't anything more american than america.
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
yep Dylan shoulda got it before he bombed weddings in Pakistan too
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
or at least before the christmas album
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
i haven't seen this victoria's secret ad but i choose to believe it involves a lingerie-clad dylan provocatively reclining on a big brass bed
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
morbs gets hot take #2
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
I heard he was pretty good at those Afghan weddings
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
But yeah the ones in Pakistan he was under the weather
Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
"Dylan's lyrics are poor as poesy. The Nobel should have gone to Caetano Veloso."
they are songs though, not poems. his lyrics work great as song lyrics. and caetano hearts dylan so hard!
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
this is bullshit - books get little enough exposure as it is without giving this award to dylan. i like his music but the entire idea of lyrics as poetry or literature is a fallacy.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
if books meed more exposure their writers should set them to music tbh
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
*need
next year an app is going to win
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:20 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Quality post imo
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
a signed cassingle of 'de doo doo doo, de da da da' is even now winging its way toward stockholm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CupV2LxW8AA82E3.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
"Brownsville Girl" didn't top Pearl Buck? pish tosh
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
That would look great printed on toilet paper
xpost
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
If they were going to give it to an American poet why couldn't they give it to Billy Collins? Oh wait.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
lol James, that was perfect <3
― flopson, Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
so not gonna happen
^^^now in the running
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Next time an advertising firm for their slogans. (j/k, I think it's fine that it went to Dylan)
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdsTkqerOw
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
And Dario Fo died. A mere coincidence?
― alimosina, Thursday, 13 October 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Good point. Better ask The Widow Gray.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
i like a few bob dylan albums
but a man of letters he is not
thanks nobel prize for firmly cementing your place in some back alley trash bin
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
cuck
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
without ideas or violence?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
http://media3.giphy.com/media/oR5LcCn6pimI/giphy.gif
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Don't you tell Henry James.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Nobel's got your prize
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
I like Bob Dylan. The Nobel committee made a strong choice imo. I hope they continue to award prizes to people I like.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Bob Dylan at Budokan rules btw.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm really excited about this. Bob Dylan deserves it.
Expanding the definition of "literature" is a good thing imo. Dylan certainly writes good words.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
otm. The idea that "real" poetry is something written rather than performed is super ahistorical as well.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link