Celebrity Death Pool!

[anarky]

This makes me very sad. Very, very sad.

[Negative Boy]

What a bunch of candy asses. Moping over a bunch of raggedy old dead dudes who contributed nothing of significance to society while they were alive. Let me clue you fuckheads in on something. Nobody appreciates you "kind words" and condolences when they die. Because THEY'RE FUCKING DEAD. Its like high fiving a pile of drift wood.
"Hey, thanks for decomposing and stinking up the joint with your carcass! Good job, dead guy!"

What a collection of douches.

[Sleazer]

Dobie Gray.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Poop.
First Jerry, and now Joe Simon. The last of the greats are gone.

And Eduardo Barreto died. He was only 57. I remember him being consistently decent, but not a "Wow!" artist.

[Ran]

Crap. I thought I had Kim Jong Il on my list.

[anarky]

Y'know the real question that I haven't heard anyone raise yet?

"If North Korean media reported yesterday that Kim Jong Il had died, how long has he really been dead?"

If the truth ever comes out, I'm putting my money on two weeks. So on or around December 5.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Ha! That's actually the first thing that went through my mind when I read the paper this morning.

[anarky]

Great minds think alike.

Unfortunately, so do the shitty ones. I'm hoping we're great, because the alternative sucks.

[Diabolical]

The first thing that popped into my head was "I'm So Ronery."

[Rollo Tomassi]

So, with Kim Jong Il and Saddam dead, two thirds of Bush's 'Axis of Evil' are gone. Iran is the one that's 'Ronery'.

And if you go Beyond the Axis, Libya's Qadafi is dead, Cuba's Castro may as well be dead, and Syria is suffering from Arab Spring.

Fuck you, Bad Guys!

[anarky]

We've got Putin to worry about, making Russia again a possible danger. I doubt that they'll go full-on "enemy," but the country is essentially run by gangsters. Kinda like Tatooine.

[anarky]

No one had Etta James?

I was sorta hoping she'd turn out to be a Highlander. I got to thinking about it, and, of all the great blues performers of the pre-rock era, she was the last (and greatest) female.

And there are only four major male performers left. Buddy Guy, one of the best damned guitar players in any genre, seems to be going strong (physically and musically--he still puts on one of the best live shows you can see). B.B. King, another guitar god, is still performing. James Cotton, onetime harmonica player for Muddy Waters (at the same time Guy was his backup guitarist, IIRC), is alive, but I don't know if he performs. I can't find anything concrete about Bobby "Blue" Bland, one of the smoothest-voiced male singers ever, performing or recording beyond his last duet with B.B. King about fifteen years ago, but he's still alive.

Delta blues only died a year ago when "Honeyboy" Edwards, who according to some versions of the tale was present on the night Robert Johnson was poisoned in 1938, passed away. Postwar, pre-rock blues is following suit too quickly. When it's gone, the Douche Cyberwar threatens to engulf a world ignorant of true awesomeness.

If you'd told me B.B. King would outlive Etta James, I would never have believed you.

Here's a familiar number from the final album by the late Queen Of The Blues (late 2011)--a bit weird, but still cool:

[Ran]

Joe Paterno

Point for Sleazer.

Gary Carter will probably be next. His daughter said he has a brain tumor and it doesn't look good. He was one of my favorite players when I was a kid.

[Ben Reilly]

Ha! That fucking liberal Paterno died! That's God's way of saying, "Hey, you stupid libtard--don't go around putting your cock in little boys' asses!"

When Santorum is president, he won't allow this sort of vegan nazi butt-love hippie commune shit.

[anarky]

I don't give a shit one way or the other, but it does bug me that the non-sports fans who are crying "RIP Joe Paterno" on Facebook are the same ones who, just a couple of months back, were saying he should be fired because "what if it was your kid?"