Just 4 more shopping days before the (potentially) last blogfest of our time. I recommend buying food and water...then weapons...then inviting me over!
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The Celebrity Dead Pool
This year's event has concluded with a double shot:
Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has passed away at the age of 88 of respiratory complications. He was mentioned in a post of mine last week which makes me feel a little weird.
Jack Hanlon the last surviving actor from the 1926 Buster Keaton silent movie "The General" and two 1927 "Our Gang" movies passed away at 96 in Las Vegas. I cannot even begin to imagine all the evolution of society he saw. Can you grasp being in a silent movie AND living in the age of Facebook?? And everything in between. Wow.
RIP Dan and Jack.
7 comments:
That's a lot of changes to witness.
The 20th century was quite diverse. You're right about going from silent movies to so much more change!
Monti
Mary Montague Sikes
And yet Wilfred Brimley is still making oatmeal while others pass on.
Hard to believe how much our society has changed in the past century -- and not for the better, in some ways.
Wow, that is a lot of change. I thought that about my grandparents, though. To grow up in the dustbowl era and witness today, an age of consumerism where everything is available for the right price. What a metamorphosis.
Shannon at The Warrior Muse
Alex: It boggles my mind every time I think about it.
Monti: The last 100 years have to be the most incredible century ever for advances.
PTM: What will he do when the oats go...and he has no more diabeetus to hawk??
Milo: It has been quite a roller coaster but look at some things that were a few tweaks away from steering the world in another direction (Hitler, Cuban Missle Crisis, Betamax).
Shannon: I remember watching some of my grandparents old 8MM movies from the 40's and thought that was something.
Makes you wonder what changes we will witness in ours!
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