Celebrity Death Pool!

[anarky]

Looks like everyone else thought George Jones was immortal, too.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

The Possum?! Noooo!!

[anarky]

I believe those were my words exactly.

[Tom Foolery]

Otters have had a notoriously long standing feud with Possums. They're like the Hatfields and McCoys of the varmint set.

I'm just sayin'....

[anarky]

I saw a comment on one news article that said Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Loretta Lynn are all that's left of classic country (the stuff that doesn't suck because it's bland pop music where the singer wears a cowboy hat and fakes a southern accent). That's not too far off, unfortunately. They missed Dolly Parton and Glenn Campbell, and I'll assume they're not including the few younger artists who don't suck. (Plus Mr. Campbell has retired following his diagnosis with Alzheimers.)

I've noticed as I've grown old that I've stopped hating country music on principle. Once you figure out that modern blues sounds more like classic country than it does classic blues (and more than modern country does classic country), it's tough to like one and not the other. And there's that whole "southern rock" subgenre that is practically meaningless because it just means someone through blues, hard rock, and country (and, in the case of the Allmans, jazz) in a blender and hit puree.

[Tom Foolery]

One of the guys from KrissKross died. It was either Kriss or Kross. Mild apathy prevents me from googling to find out which.

[Slicker]

It was the Mac Daddy. I think that's Kriss.

[anarky]

His name was Chris something, so I assume Kris. Not sure if that's a safe assumption.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Awwwwww....Dammit dammit dammit all to hell.

Ray Harryhausen is gone.

That man was a doorway to imagination like no other. It's one thing to have an imagination like Tolkein and Asimov and so many other fantastic writers.
But it's entirely different to make others SEE the wonder. Nowadays CGI makes pretty much anything possible. But a half century ago? Ray kicked that door down, Chuck Norris style.

Thanks for everything, Ray.

R.I.P.

[Ran]

Richie Havens died a few weeks ago. Figured he deserved a mention. He was the opening act at Woodstock. He had to play for 3 hours because the other acts couldn't get to the show since all of the roads were gridlocked.

The flags at UNLV have been at half mast the past couple days. I haven't figured out why.

[anarky]

Richie Havens died a few weeks ago. Figured he deserved a mention.

What the fuck? How did I miss that?!? Or did I not miss it and forgot?

[Negative Boy]

Some crotchety old broad from Vyn's favorite daytime soap keeled over.

He's inconsolable. He watched the show religiously. He would take breaks just long enough to clean sand out of his vagina.

[Ran]

Just remembered another one that happened a few weeks ago. Chrissy Amphlett, who was the lead singer of the Divinyls. Their big hit was "I Touch Myself."

[Stormshadow]

Dr. Joyce Brothers died.

She was on my list. Or she would've been if the puppets were allowed to have lists. But they're not.

You eletist assholes treat us all like second class citizens.

[Zaphod]

angelina jolie's tatas.

i will never again be able to watch hackers without crying.