Bob Dylan wins the Nobel prize for literature

by tricycle Thu 13 Oct 2016, 13:55

Katy Perry must be on the shortlist for next year.

by taipan Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:06

tricycle wrote:Katy Perry must be on the shortlist for next year.

She's been on my shortlist for some time.

by JGK Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:19

Irvine Welsh puts in a bid to be the first to win a Nobel Prize for literature for a tweet:

Irvine Welsh
(@IrvineWelsh)
I'm a Dylan fan, but this is an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.

by JGK Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:21

Must day, Dylan does seem out of place here:

US Nobel laureates in literature
Sinclair Lewis, 1930
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, 1936
Pearl Buck, 1938
TS Eliot, 1948
William Faulkner, 1949
Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1954
John Steinbeck, 1962
Toni Morrison, 1993

by WideWally Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:22

Was it written on Cue Cards?

by taipan Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:22

JGK wrote:Irvine Welsh puts in a bid to be the first to win a Nobel Prize for literature for a tweet:

Irvine Welsh
(@IrvineWelsh)
I'm a Dylan fan, but this is an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.

Best description I have ever heard of horrie.

by taipan Thu 13 Oct 2016, 14:25

JGK wrote:Must day, Dylan does seem out of place here:

US Nobel laureates in literature
Sinclair Lewis, 1930
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, 1936
Pearl Buck, 1938
TS Eliot, 1948
William Faulkner, 1949
Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1954
John Steinbeck, 1962
Toni Morrison, 1993

TS Eliot was a lyricist for a musical.

by furriner Thu 13 Oct 2016, 17:00

taipan wrote:
tricycle wrote:Katy Perry must be on the shortlist for next year.

She's been on my shortlist for some time.

Penelope Cruz has been on my longlist for some time.

by tricycle Thu 13 Oct 2016, 18:14

furriner wrote:
taipan wrote:
tricycle wrote:Katy Perry must be on the shortlist for next year.

She's been on my shortlist for some time.

Penelope Cruz has been on my longlist for some time.

My longlist is half the size of Mumbai. My shortlist way too long. The actual list just gathers dust.

by skully Thu 13 Oct 2016, 21:11

tricycle wrote:Katy Perry must be on the shortlist for next year.

JGK wrote:Irvine Welsh puts in a bid to be the first to win a Nobel Prize for literature for a tweet:

Irvine Welsh
(@IrvineWelsh)
I'm a Dylan fan, but this is an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies.

Word x 2. FFS. Rolling Eyes

by Bradman Fri 14 Oct 2016, 02:13

You can imagine the scene on a farm just outside Stockholm.

"FFS! They can't even frame a budget until we put our tax returns in Benny what more can we do."

"Maybe rip some stuff off that's out of copyright and stop using hot chicks as vocalists Bjorn."

by PeterCS Mon 17 Oct 2016, 16:13

Don't know what all the fuss is about. Bobby's not the first Singer to get that gong.

And from Thomas Mann to Bobby Zimmerman ...?

Well, we've had Pinter, Beckett & Dario Fo,
Alice Munro, Saramago and Saul Bellow.
Even Quasimodo. So...
Not so weird to go down Desolation Row.

From Sartre & Camus it's one short step
To All Tangled Up in Blue:
There's nothing really new
Under the Hard Rain, this Fall or any other.

Nobel obliges
Reel it in

It's only dark yet if we see
An unsheletered storm go on
From Winston Churchill to Julie Burchill