GIP!

[zing_och]

harriet_spy posted the quote, and Neil Gaiman recced the article: the NYT interviewed Ray Bradbury, who is raising money for libraries. It's a nice read, actually, and I think he's completely right about how important libraries are. But he's also 89 years old.

The best part:

The Internet? Don’t get him started. “The Internet is a big distraction,” Mr. Bradbury barked from his perch in his house in Los Angeles, which is jammed with enormous stuffed animals, videos, DVDs, wooden toys, photographs and books, with things like the National Medal of Arts sort of tossed on a table.

“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’

“It’s distracting,” he continued. “It’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

If that doesn't cheer you up: Yesterday I ran a 5k race dressed as a garden gnome. There might be pictures when their website updates. *g*