Category Archives: The Grim Spector

The Ambassador From Halloween Country Has Gone Home

Posted on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 by Keith

Ray Bradbury is dead. I don’t know when I first read one of his stories, but for as long as I can remember, he’s always been there, a figure in my mental landscape. Neil Gaiman says that Ray Bradbury invented … Continue reading →

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Monkee Gone To Heaven

Posted on Thursday, March 1, 2012 by Keith

Davy Jones of the Monkees died of a heart attack Wednesday. He was 66 years old. I’m too young to have been involved in the first wave of Monkee mania back in the 60s. And to be sure, the Monkee’s … Continue reading →

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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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