now that it is almost may, i figured we aren’t having a ’2009′ dead pool; likely because i thrashed the competition last year and everyone is too discouraged to challenge my championship. anyway, here is your new receptacle to deposit well wishes, so longs, and good riddances for celebrities and other cultural figures who shuffle off this year.
Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78
The author JG Ballard, famed for novels such as Crash and Empire of the Sun, has died aged 78 after a long illness.
-bbc.co.uk
http://www.sisyphean.com/ex/concrete-island/.
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is it bad luck to post this before boarding an airplane?
patrick swayze (age 56) (cancer) 4
farrah fawcette majors (age 62) (cancer) 3
kirk douglas (age 92) 1
ted kennedy (age 77) (cancer) 2
ariel sharon (age 81) (vegetable) 1
pat robertson (age 79) 3
robert byrd (age 90) 1
abe vigoda (age 88) 2
steve jobs (age 54) (ask jjj, he’s fine) 5
beverly cleary (age 93) 1
wild card: quentin tarantino (10)
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what is the deadline for submitting these names? sometime before city kitties?
are you going to rank the damned with a point spread again?
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let’s say the deadline is the night of this sunday, the 26th; that will give me and our two readers the weekend to craft their lists. then you can apply that system that you tried to abuse last year…points based on the decade the people were born or something?
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if any of my people die before sunday i am taking credit for them. i am not developing the score system.
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ok, out of ‘respect’ for the recently deceased, i will remove her from my list (she was my wild card); to be fair, you should replace kirk douglas or steve jobs with kirk cameron.
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BB King (age 83) (healthy as ox) 2pts
Claude Lévi-Strauss (age 100) 1pt
Patrick Swayze (age 56) (cancer) 4pts
Ted Kennedy (age 77) (head cancer?) 2pts
Fidel Castro (age 82) 2pts
Eli Wallach (age 93) 1pt
James Garner (age 81) 2pts
Harry Morgan (age 94) 1pt
Farrah Fawcett (age 62) 4pts
Tony Curtis (age 83) 2pts
wildcard: Bea Arthur Tom Sizemore 10pts
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shit, i just realized that paul harvey died 3 weeks after the close of last years dead pool, costing me 7 points.
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ok, i propose this scoring method: each name is worth 10 points, you then subtract the number of decades old they are, (50-59 equals a 5 point deduction), if they are already known to be gravely ill you remove another 1 point.
do you concur with this?
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see my post above for implementation, as for wildcards, sizemore and tarantino are both about the same age, although sizemore is clearly the worse for wear. i suggest they both garner 10 points.
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ok, i propose this scoring method: each name is worth 10 points, you then subtract the number of decades old they are, (50-59 equals a 5 point deduction), if they are already known to be gravely ill you remove another 1 point.
jx, my guys won’t be worth anything. claude l-s will be worth -1 ??
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ok, i updated my list w/ your unfair system.
i think steve jobs has some problem with his body falling apart.
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give yourself one point for c l-s.
ok, he is worth something now.
the havana times reports castro as fully recovered from his recent non-fatal ailments.
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A police official said Carradine was found hanging by a rope in the room’s closet, and the Bangkok Post reported that his body was found curled up in the wardrobe with a shoelace tied around his genitals and neck. The same officer said: “Under these circumstances we cannot be sure that he committed suicide but he may have died from masturbation.”
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buying it whilst getting serviced by a 16 y.o. ladyboy in thailand probably beats succumbing to diabetes or anal cancer in plano or however normal people die.
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apparently his family has said that it was not aea, but that he was killed by ninjas who feared that he was on to their secret cabal… seriously…
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BREAKING NEWS:Ed McMahon dies at 86, according to NBC
i’m surprised this guy wasn’t on our lists. what a waste.
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score!!
LOS ANGELES – Farrah Fawcett, the “Charlie’s Angels” star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday after battling cancer. She was 62.
ashley – 4
jt – 0
r.i.p.:
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better update your list:
Pop star Michael Jackson was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital Thursday afternoon, according to celebrity Web site TMZ. Jackson reportedly suffered cardiac arrest.
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michael jackson is dead
-la times
i won’t even pretend to say i dug this guy’s music or respected his artistry, so don’t expect a cloying tribute from a previously silent but suddenly ardent fan, as you will undoubtedly find all over the world tonight/tomorrow, but i admit that i was fascinated by this video as a ‘youth’; you can check it out with the sound off, at least until the 2:23 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl2Pm9-7Vk
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wuss…
by ‘youth’, i mean, ‘when i lived at the driverdome’ and chip would spend hours watching some local public access channel where you could phone in your video requests. he’d call me in when spice girls, michael jackson, and some video with a girl in a pool (live? 311?) came on.
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rough week! billy mays, dead at 50.
as a youth i used to be fascinated by the inky blackness of his beard and imagined myself launching a rocket into the endlessness of it.
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never mind billy mays! karl malden is dead! best known for his role as the blind puzzler in ‘cat o nine tails’ and the pussy general in ‘patton.’
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During the bombardment on D-day, Bradley worked in a steel command cabin built for him on the deck of the Augusta, 20 feet by 10 feet, the walls dominated by Michelin motoring maps of France, a few pin-ups and large scale maps of Normandy. A row of clerks sat at typewriters along one wall, while Bradley and his personal staff clustered around the large plotting table in the center. Much of that morning, however, Bradley stood on the bridge standing next to Task Force Commander Admiral Alan G. Kirk, observing the landings through binoculars, his ears plugged with cotton to muffle the blast of the cruiser’s guns.
like i said.
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i don’t know what you expect generals to do, crawl into nazi nests w/ knives in their teeth, but here is one of my favorite stories from d-day:
Brig. Gen Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the late president, was assistant division commander of the 4th Division. Because of his age, fifty-six, and his physical condition (he had a bad heart), Roosevelt had been forced to obtain a stack of dispensations and special orders, then plea for permission to go ashore on Utah with one of the first waves. He had finally got what he wanted.
then later on D-Day, whilst bradley apparently was in his hidey-hole stuffing his ears w/ cotton:
Roosevelt joined them, walking calmly up to their position, using his cane (he had had a heart attack), wearing a wool-kit hat (he hated helmets), ignoring the fire.
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Charles Gwathmey (GWAHTH’-mee), an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients like director Steven Spielberg, has died. He was 71.
r.i.p. the 2nd worst of the new york five.
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shit, he was only 59? he was 35 when ‘breakfast club’ came out, only a year older than terragni when he built the danteum…
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take your pick:
darrel curtis, johnny castle, orry main… and for me, bodhi, has died.
rip patrick ‘crazy for’ swayze
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jim carroll is a person who died.
“Writer Jim Carroll died of a heart attack Friday while working at his desk.”
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+1 to me.
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
say bonjour to voltaire for me.
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Jeanne-Claude, who with her husband Christo filled Central Park with thousands of those fucking stupid bright orange ‘gates’ three years ago, died Wednesday night. She was 74.
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DUBLIN – Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74.
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work.group member emeritus, scribe of ‘starbeast’… errr… ‘alien’ and director of ‘return of the living dead,’ dan o’bannon dies. we can take solace in his eventual resurrection in a shower of zombi ashes raining from the sky.
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Glen W. Bell Jr., an entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Taco Bell chain, has died. He was 86.
i wouldn’t set foot in one of these shit holes today, but during my tech years, i don’t think a night went by w/o mike phyte and i visiting the taco bell across from liquid bean. i throw a ‘tostada with no cheese’ on the ponce drive-thru for you, m. bell.
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Bob Noorda, an internationally known graphic designer who helped introduce a Modernist look to advertising posters, corporate logos and, in the 1960s, the entire New York City subway system, died on Jan. 11 in Milan, his adopted city. He was 82.
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He died in a car accident, said Joan Springhetti, a spokeswoman for the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where Mr. Abraham taught and had given a lecture a few hours before his death.
not a bad way to go out.
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if he was going to die later that night anyway, he should have had someone snuff him on stage at the lecture
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Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police chief who waged war on violent gangs and skirmished with city leaders until his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing riots forced him to retire, died Friday of cancer, surprisingly, considering the other fate potentially awaiting him:
Don’t let me catch Daryl Gates in traffic
I gotta have it, to peel his cap backwards
I hope he wear a vest too, and his best blue
goin up against the Zulu
Break his spine like a jellyfish
Kick his ass til I’m smellin shit
Off wit the head, off wit the head I say
And watch the devil start kickin
Run around like a chicken, grand dragon finger lickin
Yo, turn him over wit a spatula
Now we got, Kentucky Fried Cracker
Mess with the Cube, you get punked quick
Pig, cause I’m the wrong nigga to fuck with!
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okay, our deadpool ended 10 days ago; it was an uneventful year as almost all of the dead were on both lists. tomorrow is may day, get your list ready!
jt has a total of 9pts:
patrick swayze 4
farrah fawcette majors 3
ted kennedy 2
ashley edges him out with 10 pts!
Claude Lévi-Strauss 1pt
Patrick Swayze 4pts
Ted Kennedy 2pts
Farrah Fawcett 3pts
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r.i.p. the work.group inspiration Frank Frazetta 1928-2010
seems atypical, but awesome nonetheless:
images via: http://frankfrazetta.org/
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dear sisyphean,
i never thought these things really happened, but bob guccione is dead at 79.
r.i.p.
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