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Posts tagged ‘RIP’

RIP Harvey Korman

May 30th, 2008

I just learned that another one of my favorite comedians from the ’70s passed away yesterday. Harey Korman was one of those people whose impecible comedic timing and geniune love of acting blazed clearly across the screen. You were left with little doubt that when he was working on the Carol Burnette show, there was little work [...]

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March 4th for Gary

March 5th, 2008

A few years ago a new holiday was organized and started on the ‘net. It was called "March Fo(u)rth for GM’s Day", and it was a day in which gamers could express their appreciation to those special people who put in so much extra time and creativity so that the rest of us can have [...]

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She’s Gone

September 7th, 2007

I just got the word that my last remaining grandmother passed away this morning. She would have been 95 next month.
More on this later. Or maybe not. I don’t know.
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Goodbye, Fred Saberhagen

July 3rd, 2007

I have more than a few Fred Saberhagen books on my shelf (yet only a fraction of his body of work), and in this I’m not alone. Thus, it with a sense of loss that I help spread the word about his passing.
He is another one of those writers who made an impression not only [...]

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Goodbye, Lloyd Alexander

May 18th, 2007

Well bummer. Apparently yesterday author Lloyd Alexander succumbed to cancer, shortly after his wife passed away on May 2. I guess after his wife was gone, he didn’t feel like he had much worth living for. If you’ve never read Lloyd Alexander, you owe it to yourself to do so. He wrote a classic juvenile [...]

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