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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 08:50 PM
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"Space Oddity" transformed into the saddest children’s book ever...


Andrew Kolb was so taken with David Bowie's famed space travel ditty that he wrote it up as a charmingly tragic kid's book. You can download the whole thing (pdf) here:

http://io9.com/5835083/read-david-bowies-space-oddity-transformed-into-the-saddest-childrens-book-ever/gallery/1
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 07:16 PM
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1. kicking (nt)
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 07:35 PM
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2. Very cool.
Forty years on, and I still never fast-forward through this song.

Tangentially, here's the Langley Schools Music Project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZBvJx4XEE
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 08:06 PM
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3. Oh, now that is cool!
Hadn't heard that before.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 08:13 PM
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4. Can't seem to get the pdf to download.
All I've got is gray screen...
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 08:20 PM
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5. Try here:
http://www.kolbisneat.com/spaceoddity.htm

http://www.kolbisneat.com/Images/Work/SpaceOddity_AndrewKolb.pdf
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 08:26 PM
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6. Thanks.
Oh, that's so sad...

Against my will, I found myself welling up a little at the end...
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-11 08:44 PM
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7. I see that you got it but I'll post the link to pdf here directly
http://www.kolbisneat.com/Images/Work/SpaceOddity_AndrewKolb.pdf
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