RIP – FRED PLUM
From urdead2meEXPIRED: 06/11/10 – Fred Plum, 86, was never in a “persistent vegetative state,” although he is the guy who came up with the phrase.While researching the state of consciousness and care of the comatose, Plum, coined that phrase as well as the lesser-used, and far more frightening, “locked-in syndrome.”He [...]
RIP – ART LINKLETTER
From urdead2meEXPIRED: 05/26/10 – Art Linkletter, 97, was abandoned as an infant in the small Canadian town of Moosejaw. There he was adopted by an elderly Baptist preacher and his wife. They traveled around a lot – and since young Linkletter didn’t have permanent friends, he learned to strike up a conversation with anyone he met [...]
RIP – EL SUPREMO
From urdead2meEXPIRED: 05/04/10 – El Supremo, 59, was born in Tijuana, Mexico as Salvador Cuevas and was a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler. More specifically he was an enmascarado. A masked wrestler.Cuevas made his professional wrestling debut on July 6, 1976 after training under legendary Mexican wrestling trainer [...]
RIP – KEITH ELAM
From URDead2MeEXPIRED: 04/19/10 – Keith Elam, 47, grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts. For many in Roxbury, at the time, you had two career choices. You could join a gang – or you could dream about becoming a star and getting out of the hood.For Elam it was different. His dad was a Boston judge. His mom was a major force in the [...]
RIP – DIXIE CARTER
From Urdead2MeEXPIRED: 04/10/10 – Dixie Carter, 70, had a successful run from 1986 – 1993 as Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show Designing Women. But her most successful move on that show was meeting her husband, Hal Holbrook, who had a small guest appearance on the show at first and instead stayed on to be her partner in life from [...]
RIP – ALEX CHILTON
From Urdead2meEXPIRED: 03/17/10 – Alex Chilton, 59, was making preparations to play the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas when he had a heart attack and died in his home of New Orleans.Maybe you don’t know his name. You might not even know his recent music. He sort of became a cult status performer over the last [...]
RIP – T-BONE WOLK
FROM URDEAD2MEEXPIRED: 02/27/10 – Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, 60, didn’t choose to be a musician. It chose him. Wolk was the guy with “the hat” playing bass guitar with Hall & Oates in all those videos on MTV in the early 80’s. Admit it. You remember.Like many guys Wolk’s age, he got the urge to play rock and roll watching [...]
Creator Of The Frisbee Passes Away
FROM URDEAD2ME // < !]>EXPIRED: 02/09/10 – Walter ‘Fred’ Morrison, 90, spent a Thanksgiving dinner in 1937 tossing the lid of a popcorn can back and forth between himself and his girlfriend Lu. The lid soon dented and they switched to cake pans they snuck out of the kitchen. The cake pans flew much better.A lightbulb went off in [...]
