Crud, it was known that Studio Ghibli was not likely to make it (it was winding down production and practically closing) after Hayao Miyazaki finally retired. It only took him several tries.
But no, he did not die, another very important member of the studio was still there, but her death last week means that there is now less of a chance for the studio to come back:
http://www.konbini.com/en/lifestyle/animator-spirited-away-akira-makiko-futaki-died/
Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete, 73 points for 2 Surfer Blood Guitarist Thomas Fekete Dead at 27 – Rolling Stone
A bad day to be a 60-mumble mumble ex hockey player. They don’t even get their own articles announcing their deaths … they have to share :
Rick MacLeish, 66 and Tom Lysiak, 63 deaths were both announced early today. The linked article contains lots of discussion of points, sadly both were pointless deaths for me.
And you didn’t get any of them!
If I were you I’d be getting concerned, the other players are creeping up on you.
1 CAMJAY77 396 8 3
2 Fear Itself 351 7 2
3 Registered at Last 332 7 3
4 Team Dirt 236 6 0
5 RobotDevilDog 188 4 0
6 guylevesque 172 5 0
7 Captain Klutz 161 3 0
7 Maus Magill 161 3 0
9 Loach 159 3 1
10 phungi 156 3 0
11 jeezums 154 4 1
12 Quartz 144 3 0
13 lel 140 3 1
14 basset hound 139 3 0
15 GIGObuster 134 3 1
16 Hockey Monkey 114 2 0
16 Jeep’s Phoenix 114 2 0
16 notfrommensa 114 2 0
16 Squonk 114 2 0
16 VunderBob 114 2 0
21 42fish 107 2 0
21 Andrew21 107 2 0
21 carnivorousplant 107 2 1
21 Catamount 107 2 1
21 Hoopy Frood 107 2 0
21 Mahaloth 107 2 1
21 Mean Mr. Mustard 107 2 1
21 minionkat 107 2 1
21 RTFirefly 107 2 0
21 septimus 107 2 0
21 Shirley Ujest 107 2 0
32 Happy Lendervedder 106 3 0
33 Dung Beetle 93 2 0
34 cardboardbox 87 2 0
34 cazwhatever 87 2 0
34 Eliahna 87 2 0
37 zoog 86 2 1
38 Tangent 81 2 0
38 The Vorlon 81 2 0
40 bowler girl 74 2 0
41 Shoeless 72 3 0
42 a35362 66 3 0
42 anyrose 66 2 0
42 Clothilde 66 2 0
42 critter42 66 2 0
42 Dolores Reborn 66 2 0
42 Flik the Blue 66 2 0
42 Jack Batty 66 2 0
42 Lsura 66 2 0
42 Mona Lott 66 2 0
51 5 time champ 60 1 1
51 amarinth 60 1 1
51 Borborygmi 60 1 0
51 candide 60 1 0
51 CreaseMunky 60 1 0
51 irritant 60 1 1
51 It’s Not Rocket Surgery 60 1 0
51 JohnT 60 1 0
51 Labtrash 60 1 0
51 Little Nemo 60 1 0
51 Lok 60 1 0
51 MadTheSwine 60 1 0
51 melondeca 60 1 0
51 Mudshark 60 1 0
51 pachabel 60 1 0
51 Rico 60 1 0
51 Superdude 60 1 0
51 Tit Whistle 60 1 0
51 vivalostwages 60 1 0
70 ShaggyZ 54 1 0
71 maplekiwi 47 1 0
72 Personal 43 1 1
73 tim-n-va 25 1 0
74 Idle Thoughts 19 3 1
74 Little Pig 19 2 0
76 BlossomDrearie 14 1 0
76 Invisible Chimp 14 1 0
78 Stephe96 10 1 0
79 sir viks 7 1 0
80 ataraxy22 6 1 1
80 Buttercup Smith 6 1 0
80 Czarcasm 6 1 0
80 kayT 6 1 0
80 kopek 6 1 0
80 kunilou 6 1 0
80 meghan 6 1 0
80 Myrtle Beached Whale 6 1 0
80 NotherYinzer 6 1 0
80 PaulParkhead 6 1 0
80 rucciface 6 1 0
80 Spiff 6 1 0
I still have 3 people I’m 90% sure will die this year, all unique picks.
Big deal. I still have 12 out of 13 people on my list this year who I was 100% sure would die in 2010!
Apparently mortals live amongst us and they’re all on my list.
I have four.
I still have 16 out of 13 on my list. Beat that!
Will they get more than my 524 points?
Actor Buck Kartalian, who played that one guy in that movie you saw, leaves 7 points in the green room.
Hmm… doesn’t ring a bell.
I saw him as Dynamite, the “champion eater” in Cool Hand Luke.
Janice “Praise The Lord” Crouch begins her journey to the Fourth Rung of Hell.
“A donation to their church, the Crouches said, would be repaid with divinely ordained riches.” Right…
Former CEO of Pepsi, Roger Enrico, died while snorkeling yesterday in the Cayman Islands.
I told him to keep his account numbers above water!
Muhammad Ali is in the hospital, in “grave condition”.
I just came here to say this.
Shit.
That needs to be changed to “very serious” or something other than “grave”.