Category Archives: The Grim Spector

RIP, Steve

Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Keith

Steve Jobs has died. I’m writing these words of a Mac. But whatever platform you use, you owe the ability to do so to this man. His innovative thinking reached far and wide, from Pixar to John Hopkins medical research … Continue reading →

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All You Need is Hate

Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 by Keith

Over at the Onion Av club, they have an interesting discussion of movies, TV shows and music that people have fallen out of love with. As much as I’m loathe to admit it, Sam Adams has a point about Tim … Continue reading →

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The Year the 80s Died

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 by Keith

We lost Michael Jackson a month ago* and yesterday, we lost John Hughes. Hughes is a much bigger loss for me. I had only a passing interest in MJ’s music during the 80s. I was exposed to Thriller and Bad … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Mike

Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by Keith

If you’re my age, plus or minus a couple years, then Michael Jackson’s music was part of your life. And yeah, later, he became a troll in his own life, poisoned by celebrity and the weird depredations that lifestyle brings, … Continue reading →

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Happy Day of the Dead

Posted on Saturday, November 1, 2008 by Keith

And a belated Happy Halloween.

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Weeping On Saturn to Last All Century

Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 by Keith

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

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Why So Sad?

Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 by Keith

I don’t envy the PR folk and actors like Christian Bale who will have to spend the next six months advertising a movie under the gargantuan shadow of Heath Ledger’s death . That said film is about a psychotic killer … Continue reading →

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Swimming With the Fishes

Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 by Keith

Just so you all know, Goldie passed away today. He was eight years old. The size of my hand. He survived being stuck in an urn and two cats clawing from above. I guess he had enough. We buried him … Continue reading →

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RIP, Steve

Posted on Saturday, June 2, 2007 by Keith

Steve Gilliard, blogger, journalist and alla round smart voice on these here Internets, has died. I never had a chance to meet him in person but his site was and is, a must read for inciteful commentary and clear thinking. … Continue reading →

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One Less Dinosaur

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by Keith

I come not to praise Jerry Falwell, but to bury him, quickly, before he starts to stink up the place: The Rev Jerry Falwell, whose evangelical convictions and organisational abilities, including as a founder in1979 of the Moral Majority movement, … Continue reading →

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