Nuvo: Kurt Vonnegut was the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s Baby!

Nuvo has an article up entitled Kurt Vonnegut: the exit interview. Apparently at the end of the interview, Mr. Vonnegut suggested “I AM THE FATHER OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH’S BABY!” as the title of the article. Some interesting stuff in there. But, one bit I was really happy he mentioned involved his interest in architecture and seeing the city of Indianapolis grow and feeling that it was his city because his dad was an architect.

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building — with the operators in there saying, “Number please” and all that — and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

Then they built the new headquarters, which my father designed. So, yeah, there was stuff going on and my family was doing it. That was a very special situation.

I have no idea if this is correct, but the way I heard it Bell Telephone’s quarter turn relocation project was undertaken so that the front door would no longer be on Meridian Street and their property taxes would go down.

Another good one:

One thing in the Middlewest: If you’re in my business you’re aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren’t for Middlewesterners coming there.

Ouch. (Sorry Kokomo).

Plenty more in the article; well worth the read.