From NY Times’s obituary for George Carlin, 71, Irreverent Standup Comedian: “George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary, poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and language, and groundbreaking routines like ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,’ died in Santa Monica, Calif., [...]
From Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: John Cusack: “How would you like to die? While dreaming—would be a great transition.”
January 7, 2007 – 10:40 am
From Bomb’s Lasting Toll: “On a hot morning two summers ago, 34 children were killed here in a flash of smoke and metal. They were scooping up candy thrown from an American Humvee. The suicide bomber’s truck never slowed down.” As Wyatt just said to me, “Fuck this war and the bastards who run [...]
December 31, 2006 – 09:52 pm
From A Grim Milestone in Iraq: 3,000 American Deaths: “On Sunday, with the announcement of the death in Baghdad of Specialist Dustin R. Donica, 22, of Spring, Tex., the list reached the grave milestone of at least 3,000 deaths since the March 2003 invasion.”
The NY Times reports on a UN estimate that nearly 6,000 Iraqi civilians died in 2 months, which means that “an average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq last month, [which is] the highest monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad [according to the United Nations.] … [...]
April 25, 2006 – 02:07 pm
Wired News thinks you should Commit MySpacecide. I don’t have a MySpace account, but it brings up a kind of depressing question: What would happen here on Fluid Imagination if I died tonight? Would someone leave a comment about it tomorrow? Would you make it funny, sad? Would any comment be ghoulish? This is a [...]
You know the way a cordless phone will start beeping when its battery is close to dying? Imagine what life would be like if, when you were close to dying, something inside you started beeping. You’d be in the middle of a sentence, talking to your wife or husband or friend or kid, and all [...]
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