I'm sure everyone remembers that about a decade or two after Elvis died, the USPS wanted to put out a stamp honouring him. The big debate at the time was whether one preferred "young Elvis" or "old Elvis" (or "thin Elvis", "fat Elvis"; "Memphis Elvis", "Vegas Elvis", take your pick ( Read more... )

Marcel Marceau has passed away this week.

His last words were: "                    ".

Wildfires ravage Greece's Olympia region

At least they'll have no problem lighting the Olympic torch ...

A member of a mailing list of a bunch of friends that I'm on reported:

Robert Adler, co-inventor of the TV remote control, dead of heart failure at age 93.

To which I replied:

Or, as (not) reported in Variety:

"Clicker man's ticker pans"

Thank you. I'll be here all week.

From a conversation at work this morning:

Cow-orker: U.S. officials said Hussein is expected to be executed this
weekend. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki said today nothing will stop
the execution, according to Iraqi television.

Me: Of course nothing will stop it. They were waiting for Gerald Ford to
die, in case he pardons him.