Schlachthof Funf
Speaking of eerie vibes: we’re passing through Dresden, Germany, right now and all I can think of is that Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It was here in Dresden on a night in 1945 that Allied warplanes dropped so many bombs at one time that it created a firestorm, incinerating more civilians than we did a short while later with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. It was an event chronicled by Kurt Vonnegut in his classic novel, “Slaughterhouse…