And awaaaay he goes!

Ben Chapman, the guy who played the actual "Creature from the Black Lagoon", died last week in Hawaii. He was 79.

William F. Buckley R.I.P.

Conservative writer William F. Buckley (on the left... smirk), who was as full of affectation as a bad drag queen, is dead. Even Bond villains look cuddly next to him. It's not good to debate Gore Vidal on TV and have audiences conclude that you were the gay one. Here's their notorious, nasty exchange.

Still, he was often funny and very smart. At one point, as the joke goes, Laugh-in offered to fly him out to Hollywood to appear on the show, but they "couldn't find a plane with two right-wings." Buckley even laughed at that one. What a slap in the face that someone so learned (a quality not on display in the clip) had to watch impotently as the torch was passed to a complete nincompoop like Bush.

No, you may not...

...go to the electric chair in Nebraska anymore. They just abolished it. But don't fret, Dick Cheney should be back next door in Wyoming full-time in about 346 days, and we all know he's got a secret book of enjoyable ways to kill people.

Heath Ledger is Dead

Holy crap.
Story

He was 28.
What a shame.

Goodnight Sweet Prince

Join me in bidding a fond, baritoned farewell to one of the last great crooners.

This is the guy that drove Elvis to shoot his own TV.

"NATURE ALL AROUND ME!"

Maybe they put her down?

Ya know, like Barbaro?

Lilly Munster - RIP

Blackwater Update

Remember them? Well, it looks like someone may actually try to hold them accountable for their actions.

So even if a right-wing dominated Supreme Court should somehow forestall Mr. Prince's turn in the dock, we can expect that a vivified US Congress will hold hearings and ultimately demonstrate clearly what Iraq for Sale shows: US firms have not only committed murder in Iraq, they have committed treason, by making money at all costs, even that of American lives and national security.

I'll be over here, holding my breath.

Shelves for Life

Just the thing you'll need at some point in your life... or maybe some other point.

T is for Texas, D is for Death

Crikey

Mullet-sporting Steve Irwin is dead at 44 of a stingray barb to the heart. "The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist" it says here.

I seem to remember a lot of needless deep thumbing of snake rectums, and the like.

Mellified Man

Two Words: Band Name.

I now know how I want to go out. Eatin', shittin' and swimmin' in honey.

Ken Lay: Dead

Ken Lay has reportedly died of a "massive coronary," which may be another way of saying he was killed by the collective thoughts and hopes of millions of people.

So long, dickhead.

House passes vacuous empty resolution

House resolution 861 "declaring that united states will prevail in the global war on terror" passed today.

So easy to pass a bill showing your resolve compared to fighting the war, and being railroaded into your 3rd or 4th stay in Iraq because of stop-loss policies, and cynical "patriotic" politicians.

Your tax dollars hard at work pumping out rhetoric. Further bills this week will declare that black is white, and that pigs fly.

Ghetto-fab

He's rockin' the fake fur with style, but what you don't see is the best knock-it-all-out-in-one-go neck tattoo evar.

Yep, I'd say that pretty much covers it.

"Is the critter in my sights?"

In my great tradition of having a laugh at the expense of the dead, here is the story of Cameron Dean, a blind bowhunter. One thing you have to say for him, he leveled the playing field for the prey.

In lieu of flowers...

...please send acerbic letters to Republicans.

Best obituary request ever... Theodore Roosevelt Heller


No I don't read the obituarys on a regular basis, someone else IM'd it to me cause they thought I would appreciate it.

I didn't even know the man, but I wish there were more people like him. :-)

O'Connor: Rehnquist was 'a betting man'

Rehnquist's humor, sense of duty hailed, as well as his wagering ability, apparently.

In her eulogy, O'Connor also referred to Rehnquist's last days.

"The chief was a betting man," O'Connor said. "He enjoyed making wagers about most things. The outcomes of football or baseball games, elections, even the amount of snow that would fall on the courtyard at the court. If you valued your money, you would be careful about betting with the chief. He usually won.

I'll...er...bet.

(hat-tip: Q)

There's a new star in Heaven

Couldn't Jebus have taken Tyne Daly as his sunbeam instead?

Death goes to court

link

• "Death's attorney, Melvin Roth, said his client would plead not guilt"
  
• "Roth called Death an 'upstanding member of the community'"
  
• "The audit also found that Death used an employee to provide landscaping"
  

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005

What the fuck, HST? Personally, I'd have thought that when he went, he'd take some of the filthy swine with him.

Johnny, I miss you already.

Continue reading "Johnny, I miss you already." »

I'm Rick James, bitch!

And I'm dead.

Pat Tillman Cartoon

A cartoonist generated some controvesy noting that letting yourself be used by the military and the excuse-swappping GOP is actually dumb, not heroic, or if anything it's just a waste. No one would have cared if Tillman didn't look like like he was assembled from some uber-male checklist. The continued assertion that he died protecting our freedom is bizarre.
How has Iraq ever threatened my freedom?

"Tillman -- who gave up a $3.6-million National Football League contract to join the military and then died last month -- "falsely believed Bush's war against Iraq had something to do with 9/11. Actually, he was a cog in a low-rent occupation Army that shot more innocent civilians than terrorists to prop up puppet rulers and exploit gas and oil resources. So when Tillman got killed by the Afghan resistance, one word naturally came to mind: 'Uh -- idiot?' [says one person in the cartoon's final panel]. 'Sap?' [says another]. 'Hero!' [says an editor]."

This just in...

Ingmar Bergman admits that his own films (teeming with existential bleakness) depress him and make him miserable.

Malpractice

Remember this diagnosis:

"I called the doctor on the telephone
Said Doctor, Doctor, please
I got this feeling
rocking and a'reeling
tell me, what can it be, is it some new disease?

They call it Boogie fever
You got to boogie down
Boogie fever, I think it's going around"

Well, apparently, it was really lung cancer.

R.I.P. Spaulding Gray

I don't know if you've been following the story but monologist Spaulding Gray (best known for the movie "Swimming to Cambodia" about his adventures on the set of the film The Killing Fields) disappeared back in January. There was little follow-up so I had hoped it ended well. Instead his body was found in the East River in NYC this weekend.
Crap! That's no good.

I liked his observation that Lon Nol is the only dictator in history whose name is spelled the same backwards and forwards.

The circumstances of his death have not been determined. To quote the article: "In addition to his writing, Gray enjoyed skiing and drinking."
nice.

Score: Satan - 244, Muslim Pilgrims - 0

While most "Let's all stone Satan" events, are just good wholesome fun, Sunday's annual ritual ended in a stampede that left 244 Muslim worshipers dead.

Minister Iyad Madani said, "All precautions were taken to prevent such an incident, but this is God's will." I guess he means all precautions but actually holding a "Let's stone Satan!" event. Apparetly if everyone had stayed home God would have struck down the same 244 devotees cutting their toenails and washing their clothes.

Kiddy TV Dead Pool

Captain Kangaroo: R.I.P. I'd watch my ass if I were a Wiggle. Pazen knows what I mean.

U.S. Dept. of Ag: Blame Canada!

The Mad Cow in Washington State was traced to a herd in Canada.

See! Kyle's mom was right.

Graf and I can't give blood because we lived in the UK for more than 6 months and there is the (however incredibly slight) potential of being Creutzfeldt-Jakob carriers.

Eh, we all gotta die of somethin. Pass the Filet Mignon...

Bear Expert And Companion Killed in Attack

That same year Treadwell was a guest on the "Late Show with David Letterman," describing Alaska brown bears as mostly harmless "party animals."

This just in: it was all captured on tape.

Obligatory humor...

Ewwww....

_{Come to think of it, our pet rabbit has been looking at me kinda funny lately...}

UPI: dead pope will not be hammered

As recently as 40 years ago, the Camerlengo [determined the pope was dead] by tapping the pope's head three times with a small hammer and shouting his family name close to his ear, but that colorful ritual is not mentioned in the 1996 revisions made by Pope John Paul II to streamline the process...

via the morning news

Hardcore Arts and Crafts

Choke on this project, Renegade Craft Fair!

Suicide Onstage?

"They'd rather have an assisted suicide, but because of the way the laws are written, they can't do it," [the singer] said in an interview Wednesday morning... "So, bringing dying with dignity to the forefront is really what it's all about."

"If it's a stunt, then they have very right to perform this stunt on stage," a city council member added. "If somebody loses their life, they will be prosecuted as conspirators."

Q sez they got an act, but it ain't G.G. Allin

Sheb Wooley dead at 82

Continuing the spirit of K-Luv's RIAA lawlessness, I present you with Flying Purple People Eater.

Actor John Ritter Dead

John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper helped make the madcap comedy series "Three's Company" a smash hit in the 1970s, has died, his publicist and longtime assistant said Friday. He was 54.

Ritter fell ill Thursday on the set of his ABC sitcom "8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter," said Susan Wilcox, his assistant of 22 years. The cause of death was a dissection of the aorta, the result of an unrecognized flaw in his heart, said his publicist, Lisa Kasteler.

via Drudge