Rest In Peace, Grasshopper

[RGMike]

In one of the weirder TANCs, the late Mr Carradine is the guest star on Tues nite's episode of the FOX summer-burn-off series "Mental", playing a catatonic man.

[Tinka Cat]

You CANNOT make this stuff up: the actual NY POST headline re: Carradine...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052009/frontback.htm

Not quite as good as "Headless Body in Topless Bar" but definitely up there.

this is bad journalism -- we should reserve judgment until the facts are in.  I mean, how do we know he was really hung? 

proper grammar has been defenestrated in this case ... tee hee, I guess "Hanged Fu" just didn't cut it.

[Lightnin' Rod]

You CANNOT make this stuff up: the actual NY POST headline re: Carradine...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06052009/frontback.htm

Not quite as good as "Headless Body in Topless Bar" but definitely up there.

this is bad journalism

Has the Post ever been accused of good journalism?

[RGMike]

Violet Blue weighs in:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/06/11/violetblue0611.DTL

[Tinka Cat]

Dan Savage's brief take (from his blog on The Stranger, his home paper)

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/06/10/confidential-to-cnn

[RGMike]

Dan Savage's brief take (from his blog on The Stranger, his home paper)

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/06/10/confidential-to-cnn

"Maybe David Carradine wouldn't have been tying himself up alone—which is highly dangerous (obviously)—if he'd been lucky enough to marry someone who wasn't a judgmental, small-minded, sex-negative, dick-shriveling piece of shit. Just sayin' "

That is the Quote of the Week, fo' sho'

[urth]

Been listening to last weekend's Idiot's Delight from Vin Scelsa on WFUV, and he commented on Carradine's demise. He said it sounded like something out of a detective novel (mentioned a specific author, but the name didn't stick with me). Then he said he was waiting for the gallows humor to start coming out in the form of jokes about Carradine. Which he followed with Murray Head's One Night In Bangkok from Chess and an Alex Chilton tune also called Bangkok.

[RGMike]

Been listening to last weekend's Idiot's Delight from Vin Scelsa on WFUV, and he commented on Carradine's demise. He said it sounded like something out of a detective novel (mentioned a specific author, but the name didn't stick with me). Then he said he was waiting for the gallows humor to start coming out in the form of jokes about Carradine. Which he followed with Murray Head's One Night In Bangkok from Chess and an Alex Chilton tune also called Bangkok.

too bad Nic Cage already made a movie called Bangkok Dangerous...