First of all, I wish MJ had hung on for one more news cycle, so Farrah could have had her day in the sun. I was watching MSNBC earlier, and one of the talking heads said they had been working on a Farrah tribute, but they pushed it aside when MJ died. It was all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘deaths’
Death of a Friend
There are a ton of songs about Julia, but the one sticking in my head right now is John Lennon’s elegy to his mom. I can’t get it out of my head. It’s so haunting, so evocative of how I feel right now. My friend Julia Case died last week. Some of you may have [...]
David Reimer’s Life and Death
For some reason, when I read As Nature Made Him a few months ago, I didn’t look up David Reimer on Wikipedia or anywhere else. If I had, I would have found out that he committed suicide in 2004. I got the news from an anti-circumcision website, where he was reported as a “long-delayed death [...]
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RIP Gil Eastman
I was so sorry to learn via Ridor that Gil Eastman has died. For those of you not familiar with him, Gil was an amazing voice in the Deaf community. Watching him sign was like listening to James Earl Jones speak…rich, powerful, and intense. He contributed so much to the Deaf arts community and the [...]
Subway Deaths
For some reason – well, because of a discussion in dcwmata – I have gotten interested in deaths on the DC Metro. I did some research, and of course the computer crashed before I saved it. So I reconstructed it, and I’ve listed some deaths here; currently they’re chronologically sorted. I’m curious about how many [...]
NonFicWriMo #18: Methods of Execution
Prologue: It is difficult to write about the death penalty without taking a side, but I am going to attempt to remain neutral. Additionally, this topic may make some readers uncomfortable. A debate currently taking place in California questions whether lethal injection is a cruel and unusual form of execution. Out of all methods of [...]
NonFicWriMo #15: Tragedy on Everest
Prologue: I have been meaning to write this piece for at least a year and a half. Thanks are owed to NonFicWriMo for finally spurring me to write it. May 10, 1996 was the deadliest day ever on Mount Everest. Deaths are not uncommon in mountaineering, and Everest has claimed many lives in its history, [...]
It’s Been Two Weeks
It’s been two weeks since my kitty girl had to leave us. I am doing much better but looking at this Catster thread still brings tears to my eyes. Recently we were driving on Route 29 near Fairfax Circle, near some condos or townhouses (something residential), and we saw several cars pulled over to the [...]
Hanging in There
Hi everybody. I’m hanging in there okay. I was very sad at home this morning, and when I got to work I was looking at cremation jewelry so I was still kind of mopey, but I’ve been goofing off for a while so I’m doing okay now. Wu is always somewhere in my thoughts, but [...]