Figures, just frelling figures!

I had a lot of entries that I wanted to post, but somehow, this week ran away with me. I see that the latest sad news is the death of Heath Ledger. It is a sad thing, he was a very promising actor and had a lot going for him. The circumstances of his death whilst unconfirmed by the authority all point to an accidental drug overdose.  When I hear of ( Read more... )

April 4, 2007
The Rich Are More Oblivious Than You and Me
By RICHARD CONNIFF

Old Lyme, Conn.

THE other day at a Los Angeles race track, a comedian named Eddie Griffin took a meeting with a concrete barrier and left a borrowed bright-red $1.5 million Ferrari Enzo looking like bad origami. Just to be clear, this was a different bright-red ( Read more... )

Source: who2.com

Running from trouble with the law over his illegal drug use, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS left New York for Texas in 1946. He sent for his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer Adams, and together they lived in Texas until 1948, when they moved to New Orleans. Again in trouble with the law over narcotics charges, they moved to Mexico City in 1949 ( Read more... )