Time for everybody's favorite morbid pop-culture game: as we all know, it's a standard joke that celebrity deaths come in threes. So, who completes this week's triad:
David Foster Wallace, Richard Wright, and ...?
- Log in to post comments
More like this
So, bad things come in threes, right? Well, no, we don't believe that. This discussion came up after the recent death of Michale Jackson. A rumor of the death of another celebrity came along (that rumor was incorrect) and this somehow sparked a discussion of there "needing to be" a third death…
I've had this piece by Rick Borchelt on "science literacy" and this one by Paige Brown Jarreau on "echo chambers" open in tabs for... months. I keep them around because I have thoughts on the general subject, but I keep not writing them up because I suspect that what I want to say won't be read…
I am crushingly busy right now-- massive book rewrites needed, papers to grade, etc.-- so I've actually been fairly happy with the general lack of topics that inspire a deep desire to blog. which of course, was promptly upset this morning, when a brief outburst of hating on Carl Sagan erupted on…
In some ways, we can construe this as a classic "Technology" vs "Nature" battle. Where high tech takes on no tech. It's the ultimate philosophical slash pop-culture analogy for, well, I'm sure, something...
So, basically, I'm just saying I'm curious what others think. Who exactly would win?…
Damn, 1000000 was hit earlier today. Guess I didn't win.
As for the third...Lindsey Lohan via too much drugs?
I'm not feeling too good this morning
I'll take Johnny McCain for the block...
Elvis...cause he's not dead yet.
Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Il.
It'll obviously be someone who produced dark, postmodern art in some other medium, not literature or music.
I'll vote for H.R. Giger.
apparently some islamic cleric has declared that mickey mouse must die, so don't be too surprised if you see a headline to that effect this week.
I must revise my answer:
The US Economy.
Paul Newman.