i see dead people
William F. Buckley has shuffled off his mortal coil. For want of something useful to say, I'll just link to this account of a conversation on a NRO cruise between.
In Lexington, Kentucky, somebody coughed up $17,000 on Friday night for what were supposed to be four strands of George Washington's hair.Christa Allen, a Colorado woman who once lived in.
By the time I started playing, Bobby Fischer was long gone from the American chess scene. We know today that he was still around, giving the occasional interview or lesson,.
R.I.P. I strongly recommend this grimly fascinating article about him.
Robert Craig Knievel, Jr.1938-2007A lot of folks have asked me over the last couple of years why I named that other site after Evel Knievel. I don't have an especially.
Well, he certainly didn't get to enjoy that Medal of Freedom for long. I suppose Hyde will be remembered best for enabling the federal government to arbitrarily punish poor women.
Norman Mailer, R.I.P. Between his misogyny and authenticity-obsessed nutty politics -- whatever one thinks of the aesthetic quality of the work, I would avoid a first date with a guy.
1923-2007.Mailer has been a relative blind spot among American novelists for me; I've only read The Naked and the Dead (on the subject I prefer James Jones) and Armies of.