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"I think we can safely say it's not car trouble, and he's not sick. This doesn't look good."
—Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, discusses the absence of the mysterious stranger who for nearly 60 years would leave three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Edgar Allan Poe's grave on the anniversary of his birth. The "Poe Toaster" has missed the occasion for two years in a row now, leading to speculation that… well, pretty much every news story you read about this is going to contain the word "nevermore."
Maybe he's just been scared off by the crowd sitting up all night trying to catch him.
Aww, Jules. :( http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=213
Meanwhile, a mysterious leisure-suited stranger continues to leave three cigarette butts and a used condom on Jacqueline Susann's grave.
I've told you to stop wearing leisure suits, haven't I?
I guess he got too old to manage the half-bottle of cognac, just fell asleep clutching the three roses.
According to this story the original Poe toasting guy already died and passed on the tradition to his sons in 1998…the sons sound kind of like no-goodniks, and probably just got bored with the whole thing: The sons didn't seem to take the duty as seriously as the father. One left a note in 2001 referencing the Super Bowl and another in 2004 implying criticism of France over its objections to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, upsetting many of the traditionalists. When the Poe toaster didn't show last year, Mr. Jerome theorized that the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth in 2009 might have been considered the appropriate stopping point.