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Graves

Dear Peter Graves,

Now that you’re dead I feel kind of bad about telling everyone what an alcoholic you were. Lets face it though, we both know that it wasn’t  your heart that did you in. I’m not sure if it’s the same fellow who got you stuck in Parts: The Clonus Horror, but your agent did you a favour by getting out in front of the story with this heart attack spiel.

I’m not Peter Graves,
A Fan

P.S. I always liked you better than James Arness.
P.P.S. This message will self destruct in five seconds.

Oh, Canada.

Eh?

It’s a great nation, it’s just too bad I have to share it with so many idiots. These two posts basically sum up why I don’t join facebook groups, and also why anyone engaging in political discussion on facebook needs to take a nap and maybe invest in an education.

No Haim Done

The Coreys

I don’t mean to be a jerk, but: did Corey Haim die, or did he just succumb to the inevitable? We’ve turned out a pretty solid generation of young stars who eventually grow into their gaunt faces and crack teeth. Next it’ll be Aaron Carter, Tara Reid, or maybe one of the Culkins.

If “Child Celebrity” was an invasive microbe we’d be seeing kids in front of grocery stores with pledge sheets and charity chocolate bars attempting to raise money to cure or curb it – if it were a geographic location we’d be seeing Sunday afternoon commercials featuring on-location shots, asking us to sponsor a former B-level Mickey Mouse Club member.

Rumination Syndrome

The name Rumination Syndrome sounds kind of pleasant actually, but the details are distressing:

Rumination Syndrome, is characterized by the repeated painless regurgitation of food following a meal which is then either re-chewed, re-swallowed or discarded. It is an under-diagnosed disorder possibly due to the fact that most physicians do not recognize the symptoms of the disorder. – Wikipedia

Human syndrome or bovine mid-morning snack?

Fancyin' Flight

We certainly glorify combatants – I think we can all name a few generals, a wrestler or two, some famous action movie heroes – we’ve got the Fight part of Fight-or-Flight covered, but we seem to put a lot less emphasis on that second half.

Most of the runners I can think of are more about infamy than excellence: Jim Fixx, mostly remembered because of his death; Ben Johnson, infamous cheater; that poor bugger Pheidippides, of Marathon fame, keeling over at the end of his run (and do they name it the 25k Pheidippides? No.)

Even the intensely fast Jesse Owens seems to be mostly remembered for sticking it to the Nazis, not his four gold medals & race barrier breaking deal with Adidas.