Ever have days when you feel really sorry for yourself and then feel gulity about feeling sorry for yourself. Had one of those today. This time of year is not good for me at the best of times, mid-Feb to end of April is when I have my equivilant of SAD. I'm just not a spring person at all, it's also bad due to certain memories as well. Cut for ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_en_mu/people_carpenters

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Karen Carpenter's death and apart from Channel Five showing "The Karen Carpenter Story" on Friday and a brief paragraph in The Scotsman there has been nothing to mark it. I'll make up for it ( Read more... )

The death of Marie Smith Jones has made me have a look at last known native speakers of languages. Wiki has a short list here ( Read more... )

Does this pic of Mars remind anyone else of anything?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7205004.stm

Looks like Bigfoot is alive and well and living on Mars Leave a comment  4 

Who? I hear you ask? Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of Eyak. I read about her a few years ago and kept checking on her to see if she was still going. That's all I'm going to say otherwise I might rant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Smith

Actor Dom Deluise is battling cancer ( Read more... )

She's got an obit. :)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3196978.ece

Doris Stokes was only 67 when she died! I always imagined she was well into her eighties, she certainly looked it, she just always seemed really old. 67's not very old at all, my mum's 67, Tim Curry's 61. Oh well people's ideas of ages were different then. See what you think from the pic in her Wiki page, looks older don't you think ( Read more... )

I try not to talk about dead pools in my personal journal, as I know some people don't like that kind of thing, but hey it's my journal.

Cut for talk of dead pools and also some swearing

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