I’ve been accused of being less than compassionate when it comes to dead celebrities and I’ll admit that it is normally true. This time though, all I can really say is that I’m going to miss Paul Harvey. He was one of the good ones.

Paul Harvey: 1918 – 2009 (link)

Coosje van Bruggen died last week. For those who don’t know (and I’ll admit this is an obscure one) Coosje and her husband were artists who made really big versions of common things.

I know that no one is really all that shook up over the death of an obscure American artist and I’m no Photoshop master, but when I heard about this all I could think of was the photo below.

Mark Felt died of heart failure Thursday at the ripe old age of 95. He’d managed to outlive many of those whose lives he ruined for his coward’s stance in the shadows.

For many Felt was a hero, a man who had the courage to stand up against what was by all accounts a corrupt administration. For others he was a weak traitor who sold out his president and country. I think that this quote from from his daughter pretaining to whether or not old Felt should tell his secret sums up the man:

We could make at least enough money to pay some bills, like the debt I’ve run up for the kids’ education

So long Felt.  I’m sure that your family will honor your memory with a biography, a made for TV movie, action figures and maybe even a Deep Throat Watergate Hotel playset. 

They’s got bills!

Okay; Who had plane crash then eaten by wildlife in the “How Will Steve Fawcett Die Pool?”

Just so Mel doesn’t think her nagging isn’t falling on deaf ears, here’s a post.

Kurt Vonnegut is dead.  For those of you who read him in high school, he wasn’t as great as you remember him.  For those that read him after, I’m sure you find his death to be nothing more than a footnote.

What the heck is going on in Virginia?

My nephew watched Bugs Life and picked up the ‘you’re fired’ thing Tuck and Roll do when the flea fires them from the circus.  He’s also associated the term with people actually loosing their jobs and has learned that people say “you’ll find a better job” to people who’ve suffered this misfortue.  The other day he was in a McDonalds and looked at the manager and said “You’re fired! But don’t worry, you’ll find a better job.”

I went to my first Widespread Panic show.  I got to hear some favorites; Down, Big Whooly Mammoth, Immitation Leather Shoes and Pigeons.  I also had to suffer through Casa del Grillo and the obligitory Drums.

It was a two night show and I only went on the second night.   I missed Tall Boy, Little Lilly, Climb to Safety and my personal friggin favorite, Nobody’s Loss.  I’m going to buy the show.

We also were able to walk the lot after the show so I got nearly the whole experience.  It was a good first show, a good show by all standards I’m told.

Oh, I also need to mention Johnny Hart died.  He did the Wizard of Id and BC comic strips.  BC was good stuff, Wizard of Id was hit or miss.

So that’s it.  I’ll try to do better about posting.

It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about Larry Bud Melman, the character played by Calvery Deforest on the old Letterman show on NBC.� I can’t really remember much and his Wikipedia entry is less than informative.� So we’ll just leave it at goodbye.�

And sometimes the jokes write themselves.� Any of you that know me know that even the sound of this woman’s name sent me into a long rant that usually ended in my washing my hands of anyone who dared defend her.� I thought she was disgusting and summed up everything that was wrong with America.

No she’s gone and I can’t feel bad for her.� As for her child, two words come to mind: better off.

V at work told a joke:

Knock Knock

Who’s there?

Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith Who?

See how fast we forget?

Today’s gold digging tramp, tomorrows radio contest trivia question.

One of the features I miss most while I’m not blogging regularly is my dead celeb feature.� December turned out to be a gold mine.� James Brown, Gerald Ford, Joseph Barbera and Sadam Hussein all met their maker this month.� Let’s review:

• James ‘I Feel Good’ Brown was the godfather of soul, the hardest working man in show business and a snappy dresser.� He’s survived by some broad he was shacking up with, his cofer and a cataloge of music to keep jingle writers busy for years.
• Gerald Ford didn’t want to be president.� All he wanted was to be two bullets short of the Oval Office – Speaker of the House.� Instead after Agnew quit, the big baby, Nixon asked Ford� to step into the VP just a few months before Nixon took his secret service detail and went home too.� Ford moved into the White House, issued a bunch of pardons, and kept the place tidy for Carter – a penut farmer for Georgia who, it turns out, hates America.
• Joseph Barbera – from Scooby Doo to Jabber Jaw, from the Flintstones to Space Ghost; Joey B. gave us some of the best and some of the worst cartoons from our childhood.� They did it the old fashioned way; one water color back ground, lots of stock animation, and poorly written stories.� We’ll miss you Joey.
• Finally the worlds most loveable mass murdering dictator, Sadam Hussein, has left the stage.� He swung from the gallows this morning in Iraq.� They didn’t give him a change for one last genocide – just for old times.

Hope the new years finds you all well.�

We all know Steve Irwin was a crazy guy. Who in their right mind does what this guy did with such enthusiasm and wreckless abandon? I remember watching this guy years ago and thinking he’d screw up one day and it’d cost him his life. Well…

Steve was filming a documentary called ‘Ocean’s Deadliest’ when he learned first hand why they were filming stingrays.

We’ll miss you Steve. You gave crazy Australians everywhere a good name.

For those of you not up on your rock and roll history, Syd was the founding member of Pink Floyd.? Get this…he was kicked out for being too weird.

Though he didn’t have much to do with your favorite Floyd records (The Wall, Darkside of the Moon) he was vital in the development of the band’s unique sound and pretty much set the tone for how they performed on stage.

Syd bit the big one a few days ago.? We’ll miss ya Syd, even if you were crazy.