Currently Targeting... Obituary
(Jan.14.09) -
The Prisoner… Patrick McGoohan, Dead! Where will the funeral take place? ---»
...A sad day for all on this island called earth… Patrick McGoohan, A man of many convictions, observations, and talents, and the extended prisoner tv show has departed, at age 80 in Los Angeles, city of Angels, ala the Daily Breeze… so let the (private) funeral bells toll…. Mr. Panoticon “I am not a number, [...]
(Dec.11.08) -
Betty (Bettie) Page Dead ---»
...Dead at 85: Bettie Page (DVDs ») Her first name was often misspelled. From her obituary: On the beach at Coney Island in 1950, she met Jerry Tibbs, a police officer and photographer, who assembled her first pinup portfolio. By 1951, the brother-sister photographers Irving and Paula Klaw, who ran a mail-order business in cheesecake, [...]
(Nov.05.08) -
Michael Crichton, Died ---»
...What? Michael Crichton, died? Too many good people, science fiction and other authors, going off into the noosphere lately… there will be a private funeral…. too sad. He was one of the most prolific authors, and an exquisite talespinner. Michael Crichton, around the web: His families in memorium (site is down?) Families statement on his [...]
(Oct.31.08) -
Studs Terkel Obituary ---»
...Author and “Scrapper” extraordinaire Studs Terkel died today, October 31 2008. He was known for hanging out in hotel lobbies and watching people. Who was a better listener? What could be a better life? Funeral tones and obituary gazes for the working class. Studs Conversations with America. Obituary on the nytimes Obituary and biography on [...]
(Oct.08.08) -
Frank Herberts Birthday ---»
...Yes, its that time of the year again. Frank Herbert’s birthday: October 8th, 1920. The man who brought us intelligent kelp, desert societies, matriarchs, and extensive otherworldlies from offshore Port Townsend, WA returns to haunt a world in crisis. The deserts are coming, but they wont be offworld. The green brain, environmental plagues, new forms [...]
(May.13.08) -
Robert Rauschenberg Obituary ---»
...Artist Robert Rauschenberg has died. A technologist slash artist deeply involved in integrating movement, visual technique, and technology into aesthetics. “I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.” [...]
(Apr.30.08) -
Bat Disease and Bat Deaths ---»
...Having written previously about Bat Deaths, a new worry seems to be the spread of the dread white fungus, or white nose, syndrome. Colony collapse? hope against the pope its not. Now found in Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, the white nose syndrome may be a new kind of bat disease leading [...]
(Apr.30.08) -
Albert Hoffman, LSD Strange Shape, Acid Dies ---»
...ok, so the inventor of LSD, also known as acid, died at 102 years old. Albert Hoffman, who lived in Basel, Switzerland, was a part of Danger!, and a part of bicycle day, while working for Sandoz. Mr. Hoffman once stated the world suffered from “materialism, alienation from nature through industrialization and increasing urbanization, lack [...]
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