RIP Gary Coleman

[sentimentation]

Talk about...television shows from your past. Or I guess just television shows in general.

Or Gary Coleman. Or celebrity deaths. I don't really care.

Comments

[anonymous]

What chu talkin about Willis?

[ashkenazkamikaz]

I don't understand public mourning for celebs/public personalities. I don't understand when people are deeply affected when someone they've never spoken to, and barely interacted with, dies. Kid 3 grades above you at your HS/college died? How does that make an impact on your life?

[fraises]

I don't really understand that, either.

I kind of understand the "kid 3 grades above you" thing though, because in my high school, which was a reasonably small school pulling in students from a large area, it would affect almost everyone. Like, even if you didn't know the person, chances are one of your close friends knew them well, and it's hard to watch someone mourn without "feeling" that way yourself.

[ashkenazkamikaz]

so its wrong to mourn an actor?

[fraises]

Oh gosh no. I'm saying that *I* have a hard time understanding it. I've never had any attachments to actors, really.

But you can bet your ass that I'll cry when Leonard Cohen dies.

I don't understand the whole "mourning sickness" thing, though. I'm not being judgmental, and not saying it's wrong, *I* just don't understand it!

[anonymous]

[anonymous]

I wonder how Emmanuel Lewis feels.

the important question

[anonymous]

will this crash ontd/lj?

Re: the important question

[anonymous]

now that ontd is on its own server or whatever it probably won't do too much to LJ

Re: the important question

[anonymous]

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/128204.html
it's on its own cluster or whatever