Ray, I have written a poem for your birthday and it can be sung to the tune of "Mother"..I send it to you with tons of love and mostly with tons of thanks for changing the way I think about life...Live Forever! Ed Lineberry
B is for the Boy who'll live forever
R is for the Rocket Man you are
A is for the August you were born in
D is for the Dandelion Wine you've served
B is for the Beauty of your writing
U is for the Universe you love
R is for the Reading you've inspired
Y for Yestermorrows yet to come
Put them all together they spell Bradbury
The man who means the world to me
copyright 2011 Ed Lineberry
21 August 2011, 08:58 AM
jkt
Born 1904: Count Basie (bandleader)
Born 1956: Kim Cattrall (actress)
John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
22 August 2011, 06:27 AM
MogtheDog
Mog the Dog here.
My favorite human companion is twice twenty-four today. She asked Ray a few years ago if he remembered his forty-third birthday and he wasn't sure that he had. She then asked him if he thought it had been a good day to come into the world, and he roared in reply, "Oh, hell, yes!"
MTD
"I was not born, but instead created. I’m not alive, and yet I exist. I will never die, but some day I will be forgotten, as was the light by which I came into this world." MTD
Many, many more Joyful Years! "CelebRAYte!" It has been a privilege to have shared so much, with so many (students, family, friends, and folks here) because of Mr. Bradbury!
23 August 2011, 12:00 PM
jkt
Born 1912: Gene Kelly (who tried to get what became SWTWCs into a move)
John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
23 August 2011, 12:39 PM
Live Forever!
@ JKT: Hey John, just wondering if Ray enjoyed my poem...Ed Lineberry
29 August 2011, 06:26 AM
Richard
Happy birthday to the acclaimed science fiction writer, Jack Vance, who turns 95 today.
John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
08 September 2011, 02:23 PM
jkt
You could call this the birth of a new era:
1966: Original Star Trek series debuted on television
I should add that the first episode that aired was written by a dear friend of Ray's, George Clayton Johnson. The Man Trap is often called the Salt Monster episode. (George also gets credit for coining the phrase, "He's dead Jim.")This message has been edited. Last edited by: jkt,
John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
08 September 2011, 07:43 PM
Linnl
STAR TREK Lives!
08 September 2011, 08:06 PM
jkt
quote:
Originally posted by Linnl: STAR TREK Lives!
A little bit of bragging here but I got invited to a lecture next Thursday by Leonard Nimoy.
I gave George a call earlier today and he did not realize the date was today. Wished him happy anniversary he thought I meant his 59 year marriage... (silly man)
John King Tarpinian You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley