Re: it's not easy being dead

2013-04-03 Thread Joseph Nebus

On Apr 3, 2013, at 7:08 AM, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:

 Muppets Co-Creator Jane Henson Dies at 78
 by Mike Barnes
 
 Jane Henson, who with her future husband and fellow puppeteer Jim
 Henson was instrumental in bringing the Muppets to life in the 1950s
 on a TV station in Washington, D.C., died Tuesday at her home in
 Greenwich, Conn., after a long battle with cancer. She was 78.
   =
 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/muppets-jane-henson-dies-432527

Well, that's another bit of horrible for this week.  



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Re: it's not easy being dead

2013-04-03 Thread Steve VanDevender
Joseph Nebus writes:
  
  On Apr 3, 2013, at 7:08 AM, danny burstein dan...@panix.com wrote:
  
   Muppets Co-Creator Jane Henson Dies at 78
   by Mike Barnes
   
   Jane Henson, who with her future husband and fellow puppeteer Jim
   Henson was instrumental in bringing the Muppets to life in the 1950s
   on a TV station in Washington, D.C., died Tuesday at her home in
   Greenwich, Conn., after a long battle with cancer. She was 78.
 =
   http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/muppets-jane-henson-dies-432527
  
   Well, that's another bit of horrible for this week.  

Having famed (science fiction) author Iain (M.) Banks announce that he
has terminal cancer is unfortunately following that trend.

http://www.orbitbooks.net/2013/04/03/a-personal-statement-from-iain-banks/

(In his own bit of deadpool humor, he asked his partner Adele if she would
do me the honor of becoming my widow.)

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