*frightened for you*

please be careful! (as if i have to tell you )

Since no one else has mentioned it here, that I can find at least.

Kate Worley has lost her battle to cancer.

from Newsarama
"While she had most recently made headlines again with her battle against cancer, Omaha the Cat Dancer's creator Kate Worley lost her battle with the disease over the weekend.

Worley wrote Omaha while Reed Waller illustrated. Worley was married to Jim (Kings in Disguise) Vance, and together, the couple have two children. She had justt recently began work on Omaha again, finishing the story for Les Humanoids.

Omaha was, in the eyes of many, one of the early prioneering independant books aimed squarely for an adult audience due to both its mature subject matter as well as frank and open sexual storylines and imagery.

Most recently, Neil Gaiman took up the creator's cause, writing at his webblog:

Jim and Kate are pretty much up against the wall right now, with wolves baying at the door. If they can keep going for a few more months, the wolves may calm down -- the new Omaha material will start coming out and so on. But right now she's fighting cancer and fighting to stay in the place they're living, and they're out at the edges of losing their home while Kate's working very hard to write and to get through this. (It can't be much fun for Jim or the kids, for that matter.)

I spoke to Kate, who confirmed just how bad things are right now, and said, yes, they need help, badly. Donations can be paypalled to Jim at jim1vance@aol.com . Donations, get well-cards, or nice things of any kind can be sent to Jim and Kate at 323 S Yorktown, Tulsa OK, 74104. Kate's e-mail is scriptist@aol.com . And if some well-intentioned person with more time and ability than I have decided to do a benefit comic or something to help them, I think that would be an excellent idea."

Wow...Ray Charles

Shake your tail feathers Ray.

A legend is gone (Ray Charles)

[ed in]D'oh! You beat me to it, Matt!

Two guys my cousin was at school with died this week. One was killed working with the BBC in Iraq, the other in a crash. Thats eight out of a class of thirty in three years. Scary.

Sorry to hear that, Marymac. That is really tough to face.

- Cho

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_[ed in]_D'oh! You beat me to it, Matt!

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Ray Charles introduced me to bad logic. Someone once reasoned:

God is love
Love is blind
Ray Charles is blind
Therefore - Ray Charles is God.

Takes new meaning now. He'll be missed.

Just a matter of time before Major Celebrity Number Three...

A radio station interviewed a guy who is part of a death pool. A gambling ring that bets on when certain people will die. He said for the longest time Bob Hope, Reagan and the Pope were at the top of the list. Only one remains. The longshots were younger people like Courtney Love or Paris Hilton. Life in the fast lane.

It was frankly kind of morbid. It's not like they contribute in the death, but to gamble about dying seems wrong. Slot machines and NCAA bball pools are one thing, but you've got a problem if you need to gamble on the death of Reagan.

"Dammit, Gipper, win one for me!"

mattie stepanek

Vasko, the police dog.



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Marlon Brando

I'm utterly at a loss at this one. Much of what he did was horrid, like "Island of Dr. Moreau," but, man, he was Don Vito Corleone.

holy crap!! jor-el is dead!!!!

Maybe it was all those burgers he had shipped to his island every day.

No word yet on whether his death was heart-related or if he was merely harpooned.

*Falls over*
Hahahahahhahhaaaaa!!!

I thought it was in rather poor taste, actually...

I respect the fact that a great actor's died, but ever since he told the press that he "won't take direction from a Muppet," when that Muppet was Frank Oz, one of my favourite directors I declared open season on him, alive or dead. Sorry if it offended you, though.

That's okay. Usually I wouldn't have minded, but somehow it got to me. (And I see what you mean about the Frank Oz comment.)