Comments on: New York Times Examines Summer Of Death

By: formerly it takes a lot etc.

formerly it takes a lot etc. — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:08:39 +0000

By using the word 'Anguish,' you introduce judgment and emotion into the description. "Summer of Death" is purely descriptive – stark and direct, like death itself.

By: slinkimalinki

slinkimalinki — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:37:21 +0000

and the adorable fire-fighter-hand-holding bushfire koala, who died of chlamydia!

By: Abe Sauer

Abe Sauer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:58:52 +0000

The flip side is thanks to technological advances in medicines, Willard Scott's Smuckers 100 year old people segment on Today will be extended to a full hour.

By: propertius

propertius — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:39:30 +0000

Ted Hughes said:
Death and death and death.

Also:
Death only wants to be life. It cannot quite manage.

Someone (maybe Lucretius): Don't worry about death. You don't live to regret it. (Just paraphrasing, Lucky!)

By: keisertroll

keisertroll — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:12:56 +0000

The Indian Summer of Death was SO 19th Century.

By: keisertroll

keisertroll — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:12:03 +0000

When all these "famous for being famous" reality stars start to croak, then watch out. I imagine, when I myself will be old and grey watching PSAs about how more celebrities die every year than the entire body count of Vietnam.

By: afarerkind

afarerkind — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:47:20 +0000

I don't buy the argument that it's only the summer of death because more people are famous. I mean, yes, that's also happening (DJ AM is a prime example), but enough of these deaths were legitimately significant people that the season stands without the padding of the Billy Mays and the Taco Bell dogs. Walter Cronkite, Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Robert Novak, Les Paul, Frank McCourt, Eunice Kennedy Shriver — that's TWO Kennedys. Summer of Death is real.

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:39 +0000

I just thank god every day Ryan Reynolds has a penchant for having himself photographed sans shirt.

By: areaderwrites

areaderwrites — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:41:20 +0000

I've been charging my glass and having my own personal tribute to Keith Floyd every night this week!

By: Patrick M

Patrick M — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:57:50 +0000

I just thank God every day that Ryan Reynolds is safe (Green Lantern is filming in Australia and it's winter there)

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:44:52 +0000

The carp!

By: HeyThatsMyBike

HeyThatsMyBike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:28:30 +0000

AND Mary from Peter Paul and Mary!!!

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:12:14 +0000

And the Toys 'R Us giraffe. :-(

By: garge

garge — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:09:32 +0000

I genuinely thought Henry Gibson was already dead–

By: Ted Maul

Ted Maul — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:41 +0000

And Keith Floyd! Don't forget about Keith Floyd!

By: zidaane

zidaane — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:48 +0000

kacktoberfest(â„¢)

By: HiredGoons

HiredGoons — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:48:18 +0000

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I would note that many of these individual's careers were deceased long before they followed suit.

By: Mindpowered

Mindpowered — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:45:52 +0000

I hereby claim the Decade of Dead Celebrities(â„¢)

By: Kataphraktos

Kataphraktos — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:29:33 +0000

You have great confidence that SeÃ±or Reaper will honor the arbitrary boundaries between seasons, yes?

If you are mistaken, I officially lay claim to Autumn of Anguishâ„¢. People may not die, our economy might survive to see the the coming Winter of Woe (also, â„¢), but hope? Hope will be the first "patient" of our new Death Panels. Prognosis? Abgefuckt.

By: CaptainFantastic

CaptainFantastic — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:17:41 +0000

Hollyweird socialists and east-coast elitists are simply contributing to lowering the projected costs of Obama's proposed health care reform.

By: Abe Sauer

Abe Sauer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:16:02 +0000

Dude, don;t go Google Newsing the term as you'll be tres unhappy about its robust history. Also, an I think I've mentioned this before, with the explosion of Hollywood film and TV celebrity in the 60s and 70s, we should be ready for every single season to be the season of dead celebrities.

By: formerly it takes a lot etc.

formerly it takes a lot etc. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:12:38 +0000

Those kind of articles are some lazy, lazy stuff. Unless you're the first, of course. Then it's brillant.