I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1950s, 1983, another famous person has died, atheism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bob and Ray, Buck Coulson, cancer, Death, Don Knotts, famous people who published zines, fandom, Gene Siskel, Harlan Ellison, Harvey Kurtzman, Humanism, Joey Ramone, Juanita Coulson, Kate Moss, Kurt Vonnegut, legacies, Lenny Bruce, life after death, memes, MidWestCon, Mort Sahl, people who we know from television, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, science fiction, self-publishing, Sex Pistols, so it goes, Stan Freberg, Star Wars, Stymie, Xero, Yandro, zine pioneers, zines |
By Mark | December 19, 2011
In other news, dissident Czech playwright turned politician, Václav Havel, has died. I feel bad for him that he had to die on the same day as Kim Jong Il. He deserved better than to be eclipsed by the little cult leader in the olive green track suit. But, people would rather talk about how […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Mark's Life | Also tagged 30 Rock, Andrew McLaughlin, another famous person has died, Czech Republic, freedom of speech, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, Post-Totalitarianism, Power of the Powerless, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Václav Havel, Velvet Revolution |
By Mark | November 26, 2011
Clementine’s second grade teacher reads this site. Yesterday, she wrote to request that I post another installment of Totally Quotable Clementine. Unfortunately, as I explained to her last night, there haven’t been a lot of charming moments these past few weeks. I mean, there are, of course, moments where Clementine says interesting things, but I […]
By Mark | October 5, 2011
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination that we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s […]
Posted in Observations, Other | Also tagged adoption, another famous person has died, Apple, brilliant speeches, cancer, commencement, entrepreneurship, find what you love, fonts, McIntosh, philosophy, Pixar, Stanford, Steve Jobs, thoughts on life, typography, Whole Earth Catalog |
