Slog - Comments on Beckett Birthday Quiz! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1 That's right! Samuel "kickin'-paparazzi-in-the-muthafuckin'-face" Beckett is 100 years old. Today. Happy birthday! How's the afterlife? Does God care about theater? In honor of the man who wrote a famous play in which "nothing happened... twice," you should enjoy this cartoon (from this week's New Yorker): And then take this quiz! (Answers follow the jump.) 1. Beckett never granted a single interview. True or false? 2. Beckett was a party animal. True or false? 3. Beckett once wrote an entire play on a postcard. True or false? 4. John Lennon and Beckett wrote sketches for the same theatrical revue. True or... Copyright 2007 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:27:10 -0800 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:00:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by fnarf The novels are better than the plays. Watt is one of the funniest books ever written, and Molloy, , and The Unnamable are progressively weirder and awesomer. Murphy is pretty great, too. Really funny stuff, a lot of it. "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness".

]]> fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094341 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:40:00 -0800 Comment by Andrew The fact that Beckett was a big sports fan makes me a little sad, because I'll no longer derive so much enjoyment from the story that he once attended a New York Mets double-header. I had always assumed that someone dragged him there and he was completely miserable for six hours.

Nevertheless, it'll be nice to share tales Beckett's sporty proclivities with some of my artsy-ass, sports-hating friends.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094490 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094490 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:43:30 -0800 Comment by fnarf Oops, I just noticed that Malone Dies, the middle book between the two orphan commas, got swallowed up in bad html above.

]]> fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094561 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/beckett_birthda_1#c094561 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:00:56 -0800