I’m still at 88 years this year, which is I guess what I should expect.
Not exactly the happiest year of my life this past year, but I guess things can only get better from here.
As of tomorrow, I will have outlived the following (in no particular order):
- Christopher Columbus (genocidist and lousy navigator)
- John Ritter (third company)
- Elizabeth Báthory (sixteenth centuryserial killer)
- Peter Sellers (man of infinite voices)
- Lisa Marie Presley (Michael Jackson’s widow. When he asked her to marry him, she said, ok, but no kids)
- Robert Palmer (simply irresistable)
- John Calvin (proddy dog)
- Michael K. Williams (Omar from The Wire)
- Eliot Ness (untouchable)
- Paul Gauguin (painter who gave up his business career to go to th south sea islands)
- Benazir Bhutto (how the hell did Pakistan have a woman head of state before the U.S?)
- Ed Wood (filmmaker behind Plan 9 from Outer Space)
- Kate Chopin (author of The Awakening)
- Laurence Sterne (author of Tristram Shandy)
- James Boswell (biographer of Samuel Johnson)
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (definitely not the author of Shakespeare’s plays)x
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