From the Daily Mail UK’s Aspiring chef dies hours after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating contest: “An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest died just hours later. Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a super-hot sauce. The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed [...]
Tag Archives: deaths
Quick, We Need A Surge!
September 5, 2008 – 07:12 pm
From CBS2New’s 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer: “In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend [...]
I Guess They’re Roaring Yet
July 17, 2008 – 11:15 am
From Maxim’s The 9 Best Last Roles: “While some actors spend their final days doing bad voice-over work or Japanese TV spots, others go out in a blaze of glory. Here are some of the more memorable final bows.”
Fuck You, Georgie
June 23, 2008 – 11:49 am
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., [...]
Pixels to Pixels, Dust to Dust
May 6, 2008 – 11:21 am
From Wired News’s Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead: “Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you’ll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide [...]
I’ll Take That Gun Now, Mr. Heston.
April 6, 2008 – 10:59 am
From the NY Times’s Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 83: “Charlton Heston, who appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career but who is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo, died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He [...]
Childhood’s end: Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age 90
March 19, 2008 – 11:42 am
From ’s Childhood’s end: Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age 90: “Clarke didn’t just give us great fiction [like 2001: A Space Odyssey], although that will be a major part of his legacy. He had degrees in science and mathematics, and his nonfiction work is important in a way that’s hard to overestimate”
RIP, Jeff Healey
March 3, 2008 – 02:51 pm
From Boing Boing’s RIP, Jeff Healey: “Jeff Healey, the Toronto blues guitarist, broadcaster, and music historian, died yesterday of cancer. Healey was most widely known for his appearance as the blind guitar player in Roadhouse, and for his distinctive way of playing his guitar laid flat across his lap.”
Buddy Miles, Hendrix Drummer, Dies
February 28, 2008 – 01:08 pm
From the NY Times’s Buddy Miles, Hendrix Drummer, Dies: “Mr. Miles played with a brisk, assertive, deeply funky attack that made him an apt partner for Hendrix. With his luxuriant Afro and his American-flag shirts, he was a prime mover in the psychedelic blues-rock of the late 1960’s, not only with Hendrix but also as [...]
