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JE BANACH ON DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
http://marksarvas.blogs.com/ elegvar/ 2008/ 10/ je-banach-on-da.htmlJe Banach, whose fiction has appeared in Esquire and is engaged in a collaborative fiction project with Jonathan Lethem, sent us these words on David Foster Wallace's suicide, which we share with you today.
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JE BANACH ON DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
http://marksarvas.blogs.com/ elegvar/ 2008/ 10/ je-banach-on-da.htmlJe Banach, whose fiction has appeared in Esquire and is engaged in a collaborative fiction project with Jonathan Lethem, sent us these words on David Foster Wallace's suicide, which we share with you today.
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Comrade Stalin, Art Director
http://blog.printmag.com/ dailyheller/ Comrade+Stalin+Art+Director.aspxBoris Yefimov, comrade Stalin's favorite--and Herr Hilter's least favorite (see below)--Soviet political cartoonist, died last week at 109. His 1947 cartoon titled "Eisenhower to the Defense" (above) was the first salvo in the Cold War.
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Cool Hand Luke - 50 Eggs Scene
http://www.fasthack.com/ posts/ 4395/Remembering Paul Newman in this classic scene.
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Metalobit: Brian Lourie
http://xrrf.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 10/ metalobit-brian-lourie.htmlThe death has been announced of Brian Lourie, drummer with Slaughter (the Canadian Death Metal band, not the Nevada-born metal act). Lourie joined the band in 1987, shortly after the release of the Strappado album - the torture-cum-bondage title of the album would eventually be adopted by a reactivated version of the band.
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Mr. Clean Goes to the Big Sanitized House in the Sky
http://gingersnaps.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 10/ 02/ mr-clean-goes-to-the-big-sanitiz…According to TMZ: House Peters Jr., the actor that played the original Mr. Clean in TV commercials, died of ammonia pneumonia on Wednesday. He was 92. In the ’50s and ’60s, Peters became famous for playing the household cleaning product’s bald muscular hoop-earing clad spokesperson.
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Edward Alexander, co-owned family market
http://www.gazettenet.com/ 2008/ 10/ 02/ edward-alexander-coowned-family-marketNORTHAMPTON - Edward Alexander, 82, of Oak Street, Florence, died Monday at the Northampton Nursing and Rehab Facility. Born in Northampton Oct. 2, 1925, he was the son of the late John and Olympia (Muraszko) Alexander. He graduated from Northampton High.
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Obit Part I
http://stickandballguy.com/ blog/ 2008/ 09/ 30/ obit-part-i/It took me 5 months and 25 days to give myself completely to the Minnesota Twins this year. In August, during a game log I wrote How do you describe this season to someone who is not a Twins fan? Before this season started the pundits decreed "A rebuilding year for the Twins!" and I [...]
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TCM Sets Paul Newman Tribute for Oct. 12
http://blogs.courant.com/ roger_catlin_tv_eye/ 2008/ 09/ tcm-sets-paul-newman-tr…Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to Paul Newman on Sunday, Oct. 12, with 24 hours of his movies. Some of the best known films of Newman, who died Friday at 83 in Westport, will be shown, including "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," as well as his directoral debut, "Rachel, Rachel," in which he starred with his wife Joanne Woodward.
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Paul Newman (1925-2008)
http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/ wordpress/ ?p=777The Cleveland-born actor and anti-hero who passed away this weekend after a battle with cancer is being remembered in many ways: as a film legend (the Guardian); a humanitarian (Time); a race car driver (ESPN); a friend (Robert Redford’s tribute) and a living landmark (reflections from his hometown paper, the Connecticut Post).
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