Ok this is going to be long and rambling but here goes. My father, Peter Straub, died on Sunday night. He was the fucking best, and here's why, with photos: pic.twitter.com/vR3gV1KZP2
However, Miisa has a plausible, even compelling, theory: Liz Truss (wooden delivery, absence of affect, gaping mouth at odd moments, shambolic gait especially when trying to leave a meeting room) is in fact a zombie, and bit Her Majesty on Monday.
At some point, the Queen will rise from her undeath bed and commence a terrible new reign.
He was reported dead back in July, but relatives recently confirmed it. He was responsible for the ship (and impaired when it happened), but I would bet that Exxon running an understaffed and overworked crew was more of a factor than anything.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Fred Franzia, age 79, who brought Charles Shaw wine, more widely known as Two-Buck Chuck, to Trader Joe's.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
I don't know anything about the philosopher Saul Kripke that I haven't read in the last hour, but his death has been mentioned on my feed a few times (both admiringly for his work and critically for his alleged stalking and harassment of women students/colleagues).
RIP Kai Winn Adami, known in this universe as Louise Fletcher. Ever since I found out she was Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest, in my head cannon Kai Winn Adami is Nurse Ratchet in the Benny Russel universe (where Sisko and the crew are writers).
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away.
Coolio's longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend's house, but when he didn't come out after a while ... the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found Coolio laying on the floor.
Gangster's Paradise was the unofficial theme tune of Johannesburg, where the car number plates ended in GP - officially for Gauteng Province, but we knew better.