# Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617 "2010-08-18T14:52:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/41 "2010-08-20T07:28:31Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > pffft Asimov was WAY hotter and prolific. He published five books AND his memoirs YEARS after his death. He was also friends with Kurt Vonnegut. I saw Asimov do an entire panel presentation about being rejected by Judy Lynn Benjamin (not yet Del Rey.) And I was at a picnic where he brought Willy Ley’s hot daughter. So he would have loved it, I’m sure. As for me, I ran and covered the ears of my autographed Bradbury special issue of F&SF. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/42 "2010-08-20T14:27:32Z")
Unfortunately, Ray Bradbury doesn’t have much use for modern technology like YouTube, according to the [L.A. Times:](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/08/ray-bradbury-is-sick-of-big-government-our-country-is-in-need-of-a-revolution-.html) > [@](#): > > Bradbury chafes, for instance, at the description of his work as science fiction – in the past he has pointed out that, to his mind, "Fahrenheit 451"is the only sci-fi book in his vast body of work – and despite his passion for more national space projects, he is not technology obsessive by any means. > > “We have too many cellphones. **We’ve got too many Internets.** We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.” > > Bradbury wrote darkly about bookburning in “Fahrenheit 451,” but he sounds ready to use a Kindle for kindling. “I was approached three times during the last year by Internet companies wanting to put my books" on an electronic reading device, he said. "I said to Yahoo, ‘Prick up your ears and go to hell.’ " ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/43 "2010-08-20T14:37:59Z")
IIRC Ray Bradbury doesn’t care for cars and never learned to drive; unless I’m thinking of another author. ---
**Author:** ![Rachel\_Bradbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9a28c/32.png) [@Rachel\_Bradbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachel_Bradbury)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/44 "2010-08-20T14:52:38Z")
From the Rachel Bloom Fan Page on Facebook: It’s official via e-mail: Ray loved the video!!! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/45 "2010-08-20T15:03:55Z")
Youtube has now flagged it as having adult content and you must sign in to see it… > [@](#): > > This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community. Here’s a different [link](http://laughingsquid.com/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/). ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/46 "2010-08-20T15:06:04Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > IIRC Ray Bradbury doesn’t care for cars and never learned to drive; unless I’m thinking of another author. You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/47 "2010-08-20T15:55:36Z")
I can’t question her hotness (nerd hotness! Woohoo!), but I do question her taste. There’s no way that Bradbury is the greatest science-fiction author in history. He’s not even the best one still alive. He doesn’t have anywhere near the scientific grounding to be considered the greatest. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/48 "2010-08-20T16:05:24Z")
[This Ray Bradbury prune commercial is pretty funny too.](http://laughingsquid.com/ray-bradbury-sunsweet-prunes-commercial/) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/49 "2010-08-20T16:14:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I can’t question her hotness (nerd hotness! Woohoo!), but I do question her taste. There’s no way that Bradbury is the greatest science-fiction author in history. He’s not even the best one still alive. He doesn’t have anywhere near the scientific grounding to be considered the greatest. _blink_ It depends on whether you’re focusing on the science part or the fiction part of “science fiction”. Personally, I don’t give three hoots about the “scientific grounding” of his work - the fact is, the man can write a beautiful sentence. The opening paragraphs of “All Summer in a Day”: > [@](#): > > “Ready?” > “Ready.” > > “Now?” > > “Soon.” > > “Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?” > > “Look, look; see for yourself!” > > The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun. > > It rained. > > It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives. Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/50 "2010-08-20T17:25:22Z")
A friend of mine knows Ray Bradbury. She shared the video, and took a photo of him watching it. It’s not mine, or I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/51 "2010-08-20T17:31:58Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > A friend of mine knows Ray Bradbury. She shared the video, and took a photo of him watching it. It’s not mine, or I’d share. I’m trying to picture if he was shocked, or laughing his ass off. From what I’ve heard of writers, I’m guessing laughing his ass off. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/52 "2010-08-20T17:35:52Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Yeah but try to find good rhyming scansion for “Robert Heinlein.” “Fuck me, Mr. Heinlein … I’ll be your outer space fraulein!” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/53 "2010-08-20T17:54:53Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > > [@Bricker](#): > > > > Yeah but try to find good rhyming scansion for “Robert Heinlein.” > > “Fuck me, Mr. Heinlein … > I’ll be your outer space fraulein!” Like I said – German. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/54 "2010-08-20T20:22:37Z")
> [@](#): > > It depends on whether you’re focusing on the science part or the fiction part of “science fiction”. Personally, I don’t give three hoots about the “scientific grounding” of his work - the fact is, the man can write a beautiful sentence. He’s a great writer, to be sure: He’s just not a great _science fiction_ writer. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/55 "2010-08-21T03:21:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’m trying to picture if he was shocked, or laughing his ass off. From what I’ve heard of writers, I’m guessing laughing his ass off. 🙂 He looked… well, he didn’t look _well_. Mostly he looked like he was pretending to be shocked but not really. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/56 "2010-08-21T03:38:37Z")
OMG, that song has been going through my head since WJW posted it on his blog. I might not forgive him for it. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/57 "2010-08-21T03:40:19Z")
If you need me I’ll be in ma bunk Reading a little Fahrenheit 69 ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/58 "2010-08-21T03:52:02Z")
I’m wondering if she’s kin to Eric Bloom from Blue Oyster Cult. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/59 "2010-08-21T04:18:17Z")
It’s really too bad Ginny Heinlein isn’t around anymore, she would have loved this. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617/60 "2010-08-21T04:18:58Z")
[The photo](http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo28/kittynh/raybradbury.jpg) in question. It’s his 90th soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-me-ray-bradbury/550617.md?page=4)