What was the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about? (1 Viewer)

[TheIronSheik]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

 

[mon]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

 

[Limp Ditka]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

So it goes

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Ned Flanders' first wife.

 

[-fish-]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

So it goes

See, you throw some Vonnegut in there...nobody claims that he's too brilliant for others to understand, even though his stories were layers deep in metaphor and his writing had both character and depth...and he didn't try fitting in "postprandial" every 50 pages when he really meant "after lunch."

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I'm enjoying this shtick, but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

 

[Limp Ditka]

but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

You don't think that one stung?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

You don't think that one stung?

Can we stop with the barbs directed at dead people?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

You don't think that one stung?

Can we stop with the barbs directed at dead people?

You guys are making my blood boil now.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

You don't think that one stung?

Can we stop with the barbs directed at dead people?

You guys are making my blood boil now.

It takes a real manta admit that.

 

[mon]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

Was that the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about?

 

[fasteddie_21]

Adam Yauch and Hank Gathers. I was listening to the Portland Pilots game when he collapsed and died :(

 

[The_Man]

I held my tongue and then - like Flysack - considered writing a serious response about David Foster Wallace, before ultimately realizing it's not worth it. However, I will point out that in this long list of deaths, one of the only decedents to attract numerous insults is Wallace. Why? I feel like the criticisms of his writing stem from intellectual insecurity.

If you truly didn't care about him, you just would let his inclusion here pass unremarked. But because you can't comprehend his significance, and feel insecure about your own intelligence as a result, it becomes necessary to tear down his reputation. Your callous comments about a man so pained by life that he chose death over another day of misery say far more about you than they do about Wallace's writing.

OVER

RATED

CLAP

CLAP

CLAP

I stand corrected. Clearly no insecurity on parade here.

 

[Limp Ditka]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

Was that the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about?

Abe Lincoln

 

[Fennis]

Joe Montana

 

[mon]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

So it goes

See, you throw some Vonnegut in there...nobody claims that he's too brilliant for others to understand, even though his stories were layers deep in metaphor and his writing had both character and depth...and he didn't try fitting in "postprandial" every 50 pages when he really meant "after lunch."

Vonnegut is my favorite author, but he wasn't a great writer, technically speaking. Even he admitted that.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Joe Montana

To Fat Tony :tips40:

 

[-fish-]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

So it goes

See, you throw some Vonnegut in there...nobody claims that he's too brilliant for others to understand, even though his stories were layers deep in metaphor and his writing had both character and depth...and he didn't try fitting in "postprandial" every 50 pages when he really meant "after lunch."

Vonnegut is my favorite author, but he wasn't a great writer, technically speaking. Even he admitted that.

The Ramones weren't great musicians, but I'd rather listen to them than Rush.

 

[General Malaise]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

 

[mon]

The Ramones weren't great musicians, but I'd rather listen to them than Rush.

 

[The_Man]

The Ramones weren't great musicians, but I'd rather listen to them than Rush.

Me too. And if someone starts posting how overrated Joey Ramone was, and how tedious his fans are, I would think they were acting like a doosh too.

 

[Fennis]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjzCkIiTLws

 

[Dan Lambskin]

but I also feel like I'm being fished with these Steve Irwin posts.

You don't think that one stung?

Can we stop with the barbs directed at dead people?

You guys are making my blood boil now.

It takes a real manta admit that.

crikey

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Gekko's not impressed.

 

[-fish-]

Gekko's not impressed.

Tim's already trying to change every tenth word and claim it as his own.

 

[Fennis]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

Here's a good one:

The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub

2000

mine was better

 

[flysack]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

Up Simba is very good. As is most of Consider the Lobster.

Go to your local library and nab a copy of The Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. It's great.

Also his short stories are A class work. Girl With Curious Hair and especially Brief Interviews With Hideous Men are great.

Truth be told, his novels are his worst work.

 

[AAABatteries]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

Here's a good one:


The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub


Seven Days In The Life Of The Late, Great John McCain.

Try to stay awake.

2000

I tried, didn't work.

 

[snitwitch]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

Up Simba is very good. As is most of Consider the Lobster.

Go to your local library and nab a copy of The Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. It's great.

Also his short stories are A class work. Girl With Curious Hair and especially Brief Interviews With Hideous Men are great.

Truth be told, his novels are his worst work.

Roger Federer as Religious Experience.

Shipping Out: On the (nearly) lethal comforts of a luxury cruise (link goes to PDF)

 

[snitwitch]

MCA was the celebrity death I took the hardest, namely because it caused me to face my own mortality.

 

[Slapdash]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

Same as day one

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The Ramones weren't great musicians, but I'd rather listen to them than Rush.

Me too. And if someone starts posting how overrated Joey Ramone was, and how tedious his fans are, I would think they were acting like a doosh too.

Except that in this comparison Wallace is Rush. And they are overrated with tedious fans.

Q.E.D

 

[-fish-]

Haven't run into a lot of tedious Ramones fans...

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

Was that the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about?

John Kennedy Toole.

Just kidding...he wasn't that great either.

BRING IT ON!

 

[mad sweeney]

Warren Zevon. His farewell show on Letterman had me choked up.

Enjoy every sandwich.

In the fall of 2002 John Entwistle died, then Warren announced his terminal cancer, then Joe Strummer died. Three of my absolute favorite musical heroes in a few months time. Ian Dury had died a couple of years before. When Joe died, the triple whammy just caught up with me and I cried like a baby in my office because my youth was officially gone. Somehow Elvis Costello has survived the fact that he is one my heroes too!

can't believe I forgot Strummer.

 

[mon]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

Was that the last celebrity death you were genuinely upset about?

John Kennedy Toole.

Just kidding...he wasn't that great either.

BRING IT ON!

Are you drunk man? That wasn't the question.

 

[eoMMan]

Rich Cronin has me shaken up for days.

 

[flysack]

David Foster Wallace.

One of the best voices of my generation checked out in his prime.

I feel no shame in saying I was depressed for a weekend over his suicide. I just sat around the house in a glum mood.

The OP said "celebrity" not "overrated writers".

It's funny, I thought about replying to this seriously, spending the energy on a long explanation as to why DFW was one of the most pivotal & influential American writers of the past 20 years (hint: it's all about his essays, less so his fiction), but it ain't worth it. Either you're fishing or set on being a curmudgeonly %^&*@!. I like to think both. It helps me see you in a comic light, kinda like those old bastards who sit in the balcony heckling The Muppet Show.

Cheers Tanner.

Sorry I don't like your boyfriend's writing.

You have to admit, you are kind of like those guys from the Muppet Show. You can be very funny, but by God, you always seem pretty negative. FWIW, I always thought those 2 old geezers were the funniest part of the show.

People just don't like it when I'm correct. It makes them feel "intellectually insecure".

But you're not correct. He's most definitely a celebrity, and you can't prove he's overrated.

So you're both wrong and a jerk for harshing on a dead dude that some FBGs here really admire.

You know who else is dead and a lot of people admired? Hitler.

 

[Joe Summer]

Ned Flanders' first wife.

Ned Flanders' second wife. :(

 

[Jefferson the Caregiver]

Can I get a link to Wallace's essays? Curious to read them, though I'm guessing I won't understand a lick.

There is one on the porn industry, right up your alley

Ill try and fax you a copy

 

[tommyboy]

he's so much of a celebrity i had to google him. Not that that means much, i'm an idiot.

honestly, the one that came to mind first was Len Bias. I was like 16 when he checked out, he was going to be the next MJ, was fast on his way to becoming a God, and boom snort that coke and heart explodes. That one bothered me.

 

[John Bender]

Steve from Blues Clues hit me hard.

 

[Statorama]

Vince Foster

:notebook:

 

[Das Boot]

Cheers

Coach. :(

John Wooden :(

 

[SofaKings]

I held my tongue and then - like Flysack - considered writing a serious response about David Foster Wallace, before ultimately realizing it's not worth it. However, I will point out that in this long list of deaths, one of the only decedents to attract numerous insults is Wallace. Why? I feel like the criticisms of his writing stem from intellectual insecurity.

If you truly didn't care about him, you just would let his inclusion here pass unremarked. But because you can't comprehend his significance, and feel insecure about your own intelligence as a result, it becomes necessary to tear down his reputation. Your callous comments about a man so pained by life that he chose death over another day of misery say far more about you than they do about Wallace's writing.

OVER

RATED

CLAP

CLAP

CLAP

I stand corrected. Clearly no insecurity on parade here.

BARBS ON PARADE!

 

[-fish-]

Cheers

Coach. :(

John Wooden :(

he's dead?

 

[KCitons]

CNN Breaking News ‏@cnnbrk3m
Bill Beckwith, co-host of HGTV's "Curb Appeal," has died in a San Francisco motorcycle accident, CNN affiliate @CBSSF says

 

[Fennis]

CNN Breaking News ‏@cnnbrk3m

Bill Beckwith, co-host of HGTV's "Curb Appeal," has died in a San Francisco motorcycle accident, CNN affiliate @CBSSF says

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