F#$k me, Ray Bradbury

[Professor Zoom]

A Brilliant Pop Song.

I love at the end what the girl does to a Vonnegut fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

Oh, probably you don't want to blast the song at work.

 

[bryce]

Hummm...I wonder if she'd settle for a guy who's *read* a lot of Ray Bradbury...???

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

That was awesome. Especially the deadpan last line.

 

[Rii]

I love it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Why can't I meet girls like that?

I hope Bradbury has seen this.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Why can't I meet girls like that?

I hope Bradbury has seen this.

I do wonder what he would think of it. I hope he has a sense of humor about it. Vonnegut wouldn't have... Especially if someone called him a sci-fi writer...he'd be pissed.

 

[Rii]

This is the best thing I've encountered all week. I can't stop watching it.

 

[Klaus]

It's on my iPod. Frakking brilliant!!

 

[Gaith]

Crap like this makes me ashamed to call myself a geek. There isn't a single witty line or visual gag in this dreck, just vulgarity for its own sake, and not erotic or insightful vulgarity at that.

Just rubbish.

 

[Canadave]

Crap like this makes me ashamed to call myself a geek. There isn't a single witty line or visual gag in this dreck, just vulgarity for its own sake, and not erotic or insightful vulgarity at that.

Just rubbish.

An interesting reaction, seeing as I first found out about this video from Neil Gaiman on Twitter...

 

[Deckerd]

Yes but did Neil Gaiman say it was really good?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Why can't I meet girls like that?

I hope Bradbury has seen this.

I do wonder what he would think of it. I hope he has a sense of humor about it. Vonnegut wouldn't have... Especially if someone called him a sci-fi writer...he'd be pissed.

I think Bradbury would get a kick out of it. As for Vonnegut, he doesn't deserve to be called a science fiction writer anyway.

 

[Australis]

I'm with RJ. Why do i NEVER meet girls like this?!

 

[Pilot Ace]

Crap like this makes me ashamed to call myself a geek. There isn't a single witty line or visual gag in this dreck, just vulgarity for its own sake, and not erotic or insightful vulgarity at that.

Just rubbish.

I had a reaction similar to this, but not as intense. It doesn't make me ashamed, it just makes me go 'is this really what geeks and normal people cross-over on finding funny?'

Didn't think this was clever or funny, yet I'm seeing it wash over the web like rain and passed along by geek-celebrity very quickly.

And generally speaking I'm normally into vulgarity of varying kinds, but this just goes way, way over my head.

 

[ToddPence]

Does this girl realize that Bradbury turns NINETY this weekend?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I don't really think that's the point.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Crap like this makes me ashamed to call myself a geek. There isn't a single witty line or visual gag in this dreck, just vulgarity for its own sake, and not erotic or insightful vulgarity at that.

Just rubbish.

It's a silly bouncing pop song...a joke at that...I think you might be putting the bar high... But, to each their own.

Of course, maybe the song is about sci-fi fandom and that it can be shallow... Who knows.

Does this girl realize that Bradbury turns NINETY this weekend?

That just means he knows more dirty things....

And good for him for turning ninety. That kicks ass.

 

[Goliath]

Crap like this makes me ashamed to call myself a geek. There isn't a single witty line or visual gag in this dreck, just vulgarity for its own sake, and not erotic or insightful vulgarity at that.

Just rubbish.

 

[Canadave]

Yes but did Neil Gaiman say it was really good?

From his Facebook:

Neil Gaiman wrote:

Nothing to do with me. But I thought it was incredibly funny and really well done. Probably it's the start of a whole trend of songs about SF writers - can Asimov and Heinlein be far behind? NSFW unless you work somewhere that doesn't mind swearing and Book Title Based Double Entendres.

 

[Gaith]

Is Gaiman's conflict of interest really so hard to fathom? He's a sci-fi novel author who clearly feels he could be far more publicly lusted after.

@ Goliath: nice try for a cheap shot, but you're wrong. I definitely enjoy me a ribald geek song with genuinely witty lyrics, but this doesn't qualify.