Humph
Humphrey Lyttleton, musician, raconteur, all-round virtuoso, has died. He was a man of immense talent, not to mention his equally immense comic timing. He was one of two people who inspired me to pick up a trumpet (the other was Louis Armstrong). More importantly, he showed me the value of deadpan delivery, of straightfacedness in [...]
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Rest in Peace
From BBC News: British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90… Sir Arthur's vivid – and detailed – descriptions of space shuttles, super-computers and rapid communications systems were enjoyed by millions of readers around the world. He was the author of more than 100 fiction [...]
Wakey wakey, rise and shine
Dead man wakes under autopsy knife (Reuters , via BoingBoing): "I woke up because the pain was unbearable," [he] said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal. Pretty high on the oops list, that one.
Robert Jordan
It seems to have been a weekend for people to die. Which is odd, because it was an otherwise unremarkable weekend in this part of the world, and as such I had a fairly pleasant time of it. Now, of course, in true human fashion, I'm feeling rather guilty about that. I heard – entirely [...]
