Writer's Block: Untimely Passing

[pyat]

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Whoah. John Lennon died?

More seriously, I killed Senor Wences and Brion James. Both of them.

One fine day I said, "Hey, what ever happened to Senor Wences?" I looked him up. He was alive. Two days later, he died.

Same thing happened with Brion James.

Don't ever let me talk about B-list celebs again. Someone might die.

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[zenten.livejournal.com]

Kurt Cobain.

Because after that all my classmates started listening to house and freestyle, and thus school became much more auditorally painful.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

Hey, whatever happened to Serd--::UHHLKKGK::

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hoist on your own petard!

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I remember when John Lennon died -- especially lying awake in bed, listening to the radio playing nothing but his songs, in the wake of the murder. I wasn't as deeply into the Beatles as I would be in my teens, but I certainly was well-versed in them thanks to my older cousins.

Jim Henson died two days after my 20th birthday. It still breaks my heart that he's not around.

I remember when Elvis died, too, though I didn't have much emotional investment in him.

I could probably think of many more -- certainly the young ones (River Phoenix and Heath Ledger, for example) come as a shock.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Jim Henson died two days after my 20th birthday. It still breaks my heart that he's not around.

In his 30s, my dad looked almost identical to Jim Henson. It was a little trippy when I was a kid.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I remember Jim Henson posters suddenly showing up in lockers in the week after he died. Even in the lockers of heterosexual jocks!

not a very good joke, but I have to take the chance that it'll work

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Hey, Pyat, what's Ted Nugent up to these days?

Re: not a very good joke, but I have to take the chance that it'll work

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Naaah. I already know he's alive.

My theory is, their grasp on celebrity has to be so tenuous that my mere act of observation - however indirect - finally collapses their waveform.

[thebitterguy]

So, how is Canadian SF writer Robert J Sawyer?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

See my answer to circuit_four above. See, the problem is, I know he's alive and kicking and writing. If I wasn't sure... then we might have a case.

[scodiddly.livejournal.com]

Hey, another one of us mutants! I too have a strange but generally useless superpower... whenever I go on vacation, the climate where I'm visiting becomes much warmer than usual. Remember the summer a few years ago when it was record heat across much of Europe? I was visiting my brother in Norway, and it was in the (F) 90's in Oslo.

Oh, and I'm curious about Ted Nugent as well. And could you please double-check on how Karl Rove is doing these days now that he's no longer an A-list political celebrity?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You're like the opposite of a Rain God?

Also - no, it won't work with Nugent or Rove. I just read an article about Rove. I have to be uncertain. It's the whole Schrodinger's Cat thing, you know?

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

This is precisely why you need to visit Philadelphia soon.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Next time I'm going to Philly, I'm hitting the Cathedral of Learning. I only just learned about that place!

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Too bad it's in Pittsburgh. It looks like that place alone is worth the trip, though.

You'd think that such a building would be at UPenn or Temple, but both campuses are a tad dumpy. Penn is rebuilding pretty rapidly, though. Too bad they don't have anything as cool as that planned--that I'm aware of. However, if you make out Philly way, I can show you the Tower of Babel where I work(for the moment).

[thebitterguy]

Sweet! Too bad it's in Pittsburgh.

Oh, man, that's awesome.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Silence, you! Philly and Pittsburgh have both been the site of Anthrocon. Hence my natural confusion. Anyone could make that mistake!

[thebitterguy]

Well, naturally. I wonder why they had two major cities in one state that all start with the same letter and didn't expect mass confusion.

I just remember the first time I looked at a map of the state and realized that Pittsburgy & Philly were very, very far apart.

Which one has the sandwiches, again?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Scranton. "The Scranton Diddler", they call it.