I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
George Barris, Legendary car customizer, and creator of the original Batmobile, Munster Family coach, Grandpa Munster's DRAG-U-LA, the Beverly Hillbillies Redneck Wagon, the Jurassic park vehicles.
Brandon Carlisle, drummer of Teenage Bottlerocket. Not that famous probably, but still sad to me. TBR wasn't a band I was all that familiar with until about a year ago, but they grew on me very quickly. I actually kind of missed this sad news, thus the late post, because I was in Prague over the weekend and only heard he fell into a coma before that.
It's time to lock in our 2016 Celebrity Death Lists! Each New Year's Eve, Jason and Mrs. Jason draft a list of 20 famous peeps we think will shuffle off their mortal coils like slinkies down a steep stairwell.
This year, Jason won with 97 points (100 minus age at death = score) from the deaths of Sam Simon and Terry Pratchett. Lisa scored jack and shit. Here are this year's entries:
JASON 01) Glen Campbell 02) Jimmy Carter 03) Valerie Harper 04) Carl Reiner 05) Tommy Chong 06) Pat Robertson 07) Mary Tyler Moore 08) Joe Jackson 09) Mikhail Gorbechev 10) Jacques Chirac 11) Suge Knight 12) Stan Lee 13) Ed Asner 14) Buddy Ryan 15) Malcolm Young 16) Burt Reynolds 17) John Hurt 18) Dick Dale 19) William Shatner 20) Fidel Castro
LISA 1. Rene Angelil 2. Sesame Street Bob 3. Macauly Caulkin 4. Val Kilmer 5. Ernest Angely 6. Billy Graham 7. Bob Barker 8. Prince Phillip 9. Valerie Harper 10. Nancy Reagan 11. Tommy Chong 12. Janice Dickinson 13. Paris Jackson 14. Pat Robertson 15. Joey Feek 16. Burt Reynolds 17. Hugh Hefner 18. Chevy Chase 19. Smokey Robinson 20. Yoko Ono
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This year, Jason won with 97 points (100 minus age at death = score) from the deaths of Sam Simon and Terry Pratchett. Lisa scored jack and shit.
Here are this year's entries:
JASON
01) Glen Campbell
02) Jimmy Carter
03) Valerie Harper
04) Carl Reiner
05) Tommy Chong
06) Pat Robertson
07) Mary Tyler Moore
08) Joe Jackson
09) Mikhail Gorbechev
10) Jacques Chirac
11) Suge Knight
12) Stan Lee
13) Ed Asner
14) Buddy Ryan
15) Malcolm Young
16) Burt Reynolds
17) John Hurt
18) Dick Dale
19) William Shatner
20) Fidel Castro
LISA
1. Rene Angelil
2. Sesame Street Bob
3. Macauly Caulkin
4. Val Kilmer
5. Ernest Angely
6. Billy Graham
7. Bob Barker
8. Prince Phillip
9. Valerie Harper
10. Nancy Reagan
11. Tommy Chong
12. Janice Dickinson
13. Paris Jackson
14. Pat Robertson
15. Joey Feek
16. Burt Reynolds
17. Hugh Hefner
18. Chevy Chase
19. Smokey Robinson
20. Yoko Ono
Who do YOU think is gonna kick it?
Your circuit's dead,
there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....