bubba0077
elleI met Ray Bradbury when I was seven. He said I was a little weird and he told me to go out and get weirder.
DamonHD@ElleGray and did you?
@DamonHD I'm working on it
Erika Hammerschmidt@Earthtoerika @ElleGray though he was only 6, we're all thinking of Calvin?
@Earthtoerika @ElleGray Ms Wormwood must have been getting fairly weird by the end of that loop too...
Aaron
Ángela Stella MatutinaJust the guy to give that advice. Lovely.
moondog548@ElleGray Awesome.
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Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY@ElleGray Drove out to nearby Waukegan library just to see this sculpture of Ray Bradbury, which I must admit, is fricking brilliant....
@Badger_AF that's fantastic
@ElleGray I don't know about the origin or the idea, but it so encapsulates Ray Bradbury and the power of books.
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@Badger_AF @ElleGray How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Martians
@Caution @Badger_AF no joke at all, I read all those stories when I was about nine and I'm positive they completed solidified my feelings about aliens (fascinating and very, very cool)
@ElleGray @Badger_AF Hard same, though I was trying to invoke a mashup of the Chronicles and Dr Strangelove.
@Caution @Badger_AF gotcha 🙂
Andrew Benedict-Nelson
Mar :🌻@ElleGray That is so awesome. Did you follow his advice?
@mooseandriosmom lol well my family would say yes
wauz
Michael Kohne@ElleGray Sound advice for most people.
CatPants@ElleGray That is beyond epic.
Elkenumber1@ElleGray
Sound advice.
Sound advice.
Dustin McCartney@ElleGray
When I was in junior high, my grandmother, an author herself, would occasionally ask me to come to her home to meet her friend "Ray". Being young, I wanted to play with my friends and didn't want to hang out with my grandmother's friends!
During my college years, she invited me to a speech her friend was giving in Torrance, CA... I invited a few friends and went to humor her. When I arrived, she brought a man to me and said "I want you to meet my friend Ray... Ray Bradbury". 🤦♂️
@ElleGray
...that was the only time I ever met him (for just 2 seconds in passing). 😞
I later discovered she was friends with a number of authors; they were in the same writers workshops, etc.
I didn't realize the opportunities I missed until she (and/or they) passed. 🤦♂️
@dustin oh, that hurts! But how great that you got to hear him speak
ErgonWolf@ElleGray And did you?
Sandy Johnson@ElleGray One of the best celeb encounters I've heard of. Classic.
ThunderstrikeI am pleased to see you followed his advice. Well played.
@tstrike78 thank you. Thank you very much 🥂
Jordan (Damn Good Tech)@ElleGray You're at least at an acceptable level of weirdness for me to follow you.
E. Murphy, the name you know
Twilight Zone - A Small Talent For War
liroso@ElleGray
Very good advice.
Very good advice.
paul
Paul Cantrell
Aborigen, but Eerie@ElleGray Good advice.
magggneto@ElleGray missed opportunity to shove him in a closet until it started raining