Sometimes It Happens In Sevens (or more)

Dick Martin: Actor, Comedian - Laugh-In
Sydney Pollack: Actor, Director, Producer - Tootsie, Out Of Africa
Yves Saint Laurant: Fashion Designer
Harvey Korman: Actor, Comedian - The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles
Bo Diddley: Legendary Rock'n'Roll Pioneer, and one of my dad's faves
Paul Sills: Founder of SCTV...Nuff said...
Fredric Baur: Inventor of the Pringles "packaging system"...

All of these men died within the last week or so...

I could also mention that young British actor, Robert Knox, who was stabbed to death about ten days ago...Or the composer of the Star Trek theme song, Alexander Courage, died a few days ago...And speaking of composers, what about Earl Hagen, an Emmy winner who wrote theme songs for "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mod Squad"...

Oh, and two weeks ago, the original drummer for RUSH, John Rutsey, passed away...

It's been a rough week for our beloved celebrities...

Hotcha! Hank

EVERYTHINGATHON! March 2008

New month, new EVERYTHINGATHON! podcast over at my website of the same name...

http://www.everythingathon.com

This month is a cheap'n'easy hour of RUSH...Specifically, four rather long (some might say "epic") songs, plus an itty bitty ditty to finish things off right...

Now, I'm not a huge RUSH fan, but there are those times when nothing hits all the right nostalgia buttons like the Fly By Night album...Memories of playing ping pong in the basement with my friends...Or the memory of the time I puked up half a quart of blackberry brandy out on the middle of the ice on a frozen Milwaukee River...Or the time I met this Cedarburg girl who insisted I call her Bunny, and about an hour later insisted I suck on her tits...There was alcohol involved in that memory too, but it wasn't blackberry brandy...

Mostly, RUSH reminds me of Bolts, one of my best friends through most of my childhood and well into adulthood...I'm not exactly sure how we drifted apart, except to say that our friendship became more a function of longevity than any sort of commonality or connection...One day I realized we hadn't talked to each other in almost two years, and there was only the slightest twinge of sadness...

RUSH is probably Bolts' favorite band to this day...

Hotcha! Hank