What IS it with May and celebrity deaths?? Seriously! I crack open my web browsers tonight and all the news I’m getting is about people DYING!

First off, I get the news that the guy–Earle Hagen–who wrote the theme for the Andy Griffith show died. You know, that song that when you hear it on Nick at Nite or TV Land or whereever you hear it, you can’t stop whistling for like three days afterward? The one that some of you are no doubt whistling RIGHT NOW? He’s dead. He was in his eighties, so that’s not too much of a surprise–frankly, I can’t be that shocked by any news item that starts “Elderly (Wo)Man Dies”. But it’s no less sad in the hearing, and losing the guy who not only gave us a universally recognized theme song, but also the themes for a whole bunch of old TV is just a pretty big blow.

But what really floored me was hearing the news that Tartan USA is officially closed. Yeah. Ferme. Cerrado. Clo-sed. These are the guys who brought us all sorts of fantastic finds out of Asia, and now, suddenly, it’s gone. I speak for a lot of horror buffs tonight when I say that this travesty of corporate justice never should have happened, and I’m really, really upset with the lawyers who actually perpetrated this monstrousity.

Well, now I’m just spectacularly depressed. And probably a few of you are too. Let’s all wade over to the comedy movie trivia on Kwanzoo and see if we can get a decent laugh going. That usually helps.

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