Blogging on Meds

Today we have guest poster, Mark Baumer of Everydayyeah.com:

It looks like the son of one of the literary greats is going to actually betray the dying wishes of his father. Now, I could understand Dmitri Nabokov, son of Vladimir Nabokov, refusing his father’s last wishes if it had been something like making his father’s most famous work a reality by having sex with a sixteen year old girl, but all the old man asked of his son was not to cash in on his legacy and burn the manuscript for his last novel, The Original of Laura.

Dmitri claims he’s been tormented by the decision for years and only recently when his father appeared before him and said, “You’re stuck in a right old mess—just go ahead and publish,” did he decide to move forward. It all sounds a little too fantastic to me, but maybe the boy is shooting for a movie deal too. I could almost see Albert Finney and Billy Crudup signing on to the roles of father and son and Tim Burton directing and instead of calling it something like The Last Novel they can just call it Big Fish 2.

Huh?

I don’t know. I tried too hard right there.

You know what though, good for Dmitri. Screw the old man for trying to further his legacy.

As for the rest of the list, I say let them all free. I want to see Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s Hippos, and Thompson’s Jellyfish, and even though I’m sure it isn’t that great the name sounds cool so we might as well get another Brautigan tale especially if it has to do with aliens.