Archive for April 14th, 2011

Obit watch: April 14, 2011.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

“One Life to Live” and “All My Children”. I’m personally hoping that ABC has the guts to film an ending in which it is revealed that the entire runs of both shows were actually nothing but a dream in the mind of an autistic child.

(I know that’s not an original idea, but it gives me an excuse to link to the Tommy Westphall Multiverse website, for those of my readers who are not familiar with the Westpahll Catastrophe. Which should not be confused with the Bean Dip Catastrophe.)

Arthur Marx, son of Groucho Marx (and quite successful in his own right). (Edited to add 4/15: LAT obit here.)

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Achievement unlocked: blogmeet.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

The staff of WCD met up with the legendary Borepatch, along with bloggers Josh and Matthew, last night at Green Mesquite BBQ.

Borepatch his ownself notes the irony of us using Al Gore’s Internets to plan this meetup, since we spent much of our dinner discussing ways to smash the state (along with how to fix the educational system, where we could go shooting, downtown apartments, SF books, and a whole bunch of other random crap).

We are encouraged by Borepatch’s suggestion that we might be doing this again next time he’s out, and are hopeful that we can get at least a couple of other folks to join us. The honorable Borepatch is a charming and gregarious dining companion; dinner with him is indeed a treat. (Edited to add: We just realized that might be read as slighting Josh and Matthew, so let us make it clear that they’re pretty good guys, too.)

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