None of you fuckin’ idiots know who Norman Malier was.

That explains a lot! Probably half the RS writers don’t know who he was either!

what a hardcore writer he was. he drank his ass off, fucked every woman he can get his hands on, and stabbed his wife.

him and bukowski are in hell right now getting drunk, playing poker, and requesting all the women to hike up their skirts.

boy, what i wouldn’t give to spend one day in hell!!! i bet they’re smoking the best cigars!

and hunter thompson is their fuckin’ bitch.

he smokum’ heap big peace pipe…

censorship protects the weak.

i thought a thread about norman maiiler would bring some intelligent conversation topics – half intelligent at least, but all it had was comments like “him and bukowski are in hell right now getting drunk, playing poker.”
damn right civilisation is disinegrating…

I be read a lot of Norman Mialer books and I thinks he is a grate writer. We needs more writers like him who not afriad to take a politikal stanse on things. It be good that he is out spoken on things and he know a whole lot of things. He write about a whole lot of diffrent things too. I come here to the RS website a lot and I am happy to see a story about grate writers insted of these brainles music poeple. It be good a lot and I must say that Norman Mialer is my favrite writer and I was miss him a lot. Rest in piece Norman.

Norman Mailer’s viewpoint on the deadening mediocrity of the internet age deserves attention to be heard. And what better place to post his commentary. Cyberspace broadens outreach on a global scale, benefiting business, research and educational pursuits, but on the same token promotes deception and destroys real & trustworthy social interaction. We live in interesting yet dangerous times. Too much information overload hinders creative inspiration and turns us away from discovering the world outside and within ourselves for answers.

“censorship protects the weak.”

I think a slight modification would make that statement more accurate:

“Censorship controls the weak.”

There you go.

Last time I saw Mailer on tv, he was guest starring as the annoying writer who only ordered iced tea on Gimore Girls.

Quoted for truth | 11/12/2007, 3:58 pm EST

“Censorship controls the weak.”

Agreed. Many Americans might also be “unaware” that quite a number of their web sites (including entertainment-based sites) are available “only to US residents”. You might also wish to check the BBC and the CBC as alternative international news sources.