A unique pick for pohjonen.
I thought I was being clever for picking her for 2010.
My sister, who was 15 years older than me (she passed in '81) taught me to play guitar using PPM songs.
I learned guitar on PPM songs too (well, after “The House of the Rising Sun”). I think this is the first year I’ve gotten more than 1 point in the CDP, but I’m sorry I got points on Mary. I don’t even know what made me pick her. Sniff! I hope I was wrong about Della Reese… Helluva singer.
Myles Brand, who had been the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 2003, has died at the age of 67. While serving as president of Indiana University, Brand became known for firing Bob Knight, the Bloomington school’s successful but controversial head basketball coach.
Melvin Simon, whose Simon Property Group developed such shopping centers as the Mall of America in Minnesota, has passed away at 82. With brother Herb (also a key in the Simon Property Group), Melvin Simon bought the National Basketball Association’s Indiana Pacers franchise in 1983.
Nuts. Why can’t these people hold out for a few more months?
Fine.
I almost had Koko Taylor.
Irving Kristol, considered the “godfather of neoconservatism” after starting the magazine The Public Interest in 1965, has died at the age of 89. A former Trotskyist, Kristol turned rightward as he aged, and the influence of his movement’s think tanks helped place Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in the White House.
Is Sen. Robert ‘Sheets’ Byrd (D-WV) circling the drain?
If he dies, do they remove the white sheets before they pull a sheet over him?
Monte Clark, who coached the National Football League’s Detroit Lions from 1978 to '84, has died at the age of 72. An offensive lineman during his NFL playing career, Clark coached the offensive line of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins before landing his first pro head coaching job with the San Francisco 49ers (the team which had drafted him in 1959) for the 1976 campaign.
Arthur Ferrante, who teamed with Lou Teicher for forty years as a piano duo, has passed away at 88. The classically trained Ferrante and Teicher gained their greatest fame for their renditions of such film music as the themes from The Apartment, Exodus, and Midnight Cowboy.
Nah, they just patch the eye holes, which are kind of hard to explain at a wake.
Monte was famous for saying “what does a guy have to do to get fired here”, when his teams kept losing.
John Hart, who replaced Clayton Moore as the title character for 52 episodes of the Lone Ranger TV series, has died at the age of 91. Hart had earlier played the lead in the movie serial version of radio’s Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy
This just in, Susan Atkins, 61, of brain cancer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-mew-susan-atkins26-2009sep26,0,4942953.story
Apparently, even prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi expressed some sympathy for her.
You did horrible things, Susan, and apparently you tried to repent the best you could. Now rest in the Light of Christ.
Giving me 39 points along the way…
And me, and seven others.
At least she wasn’t the cattle call the last three celebs were…
Two of the last three were unique picks. And six of the last seven were unique or just two votes. The less popular ones just go unnoticed (unless you had them).