Dec 30
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.