According to CNN, Bernie Mac has died from complications of pneumonia. (No link as yet, just a breaking news blurb.)
Very tragic, and unexpected.
(And also points-free, as it appears nobody picked him.)
Bernie Mac confirmed (AP, among others)
I sense the beginning of a Bad Santa curse.
I know where I am spending the weekend.
Being largely unfamiliar with Mac’s oeuvre, I’m curious. Does this have some meaning specifically to Bernie Mac fans? Or are you riffing on the movie title?
[sub]I know, I know – a joke loses it when it has to be explained. But I need to know, dammit![/sub]
Who’s next? Thurman Merman?
Joe
Isaac Hayes, 65 years old. Apparently collapsed while working out at home.
Are you sure? Did he crap his pants?
I guess anyone who believes in threes and is connected with this project is booking in to see their doctor this week.
Anyone have Hayes?
shit. 
Nope.
I just choked on a Peanut Butter M&M.
No points for me, but I do want to say I knew her casually. We lived in the same neighborhood of east side Indianapolis. A very sweet woman who had a metric buttload of health problems.
Christie Allen, at 54.
Atlantic Records’s Jerry Wexler at 91.
Much decorated journalist Leroy Sievers has joined the choir at the age of 53. Colon Cancer Claims Veteran Journalist Leroy Sievers - ABC News
And the good captain is being coy about the fact that he had Leroy on his list. The only other person to do so was WVmom, who rises to sixth place.
Boxer Ronney Vargas shot to death in a bar brawl, age 20.