Archive for the 'death' Category
Sad Today
One of my friends gave birth to an extremely premature baby last October: he was only 24.5 weeks or so. As you may imagine the little guy has struggled ever since. I don’t believe he’s ever been out of the hospital, and his short life has been nothing but heart problems, pulmonary problems, [...]
Read More..>>Leon Blackwell
More on the young man who was murdered outside my window:
Leon Blackwell’s family moved to Williamsport in 1998 to get away from the dangers of Philadelphia. They moved back a year and a half ago to be with an ill family member.
The return proved fatal for the 19-year-old Blackwell.
Last week, as he sat on an [...]
He Died
Fewer than 24 hours earlier, a 19-year-old man died of gunshot wounds he received Thursday afternoon, becoming the city’s 113th homicide, Cooney said.
Leon Blackwell was found at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday shot multiple times inside the Kingsessing Recreation Center on Kingsessing Avenue near 50th Street.
Blackwell died of his wounds at 7:08 p.m. Saturday at the [...]
Vonnegut 1922-2007
Vonnegut was one of my few heroes.
His work so accurately captured the grim hilarity of life.
Rick D., RIP
I didn’t know Rick D. as well as some, but it was always a pleasure to play at his bar, the TriTone. The red walls, darkened windows, and Christmas lights reminded me of the atmosphere at the legendary 9C in Manhattan, which Neil Clearyonce described as “Christmas in Hell.”
In fact, Rick reminded me of [...]
Getting What We Deserve
In the past few days, I’ve seen a few more articles on the rapidly disappearing bee population.
From a kos diary:
Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later.
That hypothesis could soon be put to the test.
Now in Spain, hundreds of thousands of colonies have been lost [...]
Go Horse Go!
One of Paul Edelman’s funnier stories took place as he sat in some shitty bar in South Philadelphia last summer next to some decrepit drunk woman, who nudged him with her elbow as she talked to the television. “All of Philadelphia’s sports teams are in the shitter this year,” she said. “The Eagles, the [...]
Read More..>>Art
Art Buchwald died last night.
I haven’t read the guy’s columns in years, but when I was a teenager, he was my introduction to the op-ed pages of my local paper, the only guy that was interesting to read, probably because he was funny. Buchwald’s writing led me to Mike Royko, who had a similar, [...]
Dignity
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visiting Egypt, said she believed the hangings of Hussein and the two others were mishandled and should have been carried out with “greater dignity.””
No matter your opinion of the death penalty, no matter your opinion of Saddam Hussein and his reign of terror over Iraq, I think there is one [...]
Del Reeves, RIP
Del Reeves is dead.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Del Reeves, a Grand Ole Opry star who sprinkled his performances with humor and hit No. 1 on the country charts in 1965 with the song “Girl on the Billboard,” has died. He was 74.
Reeves died Monday, New Year’s Day, after an extended illness, Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman Jessie [...]
