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Man hit by cocktail glass dies; wife, 76, charged
NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities say an 80-year-old New Jersey man has died from injuries suffered when his wife hurled a cocktail glass and struck him in the head.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday said 76-year-old Marlene Mackenzie will soon face an additional charge of reckless manslaughter. [...]

A man in Calgary has been found dead in a car wash after he was hit by a woman who was pulling in to get her car cleaned.
Police say the man was lying down inside the bay at the self-serve car wash yesterday morning, and that they suspect he was very close to the overhead [...]

Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois. He was a big, strapping hunk of a man, a former Navy aircraft mechanic, mail carrier, and truck driver whose gorgeous good looks were his ticket to Hollywood — despite his notorious inability to remember dialogue. (The classic story: It took no less than 38 takes for Rock to get his debut scene in 1948’s Fighter Squadron right. It’s not that he couldn’t remember his lines — he couldn’t remember his line.) … Read more…

You can read about the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519), artist, inventor, engineer and undisputed epitome of “Renaissance man,” almost anywhere (see the external links at the end of this article, for just a few resources).

Our interest here lies in two things, besides Leonardo’s masterful gifts: His sexuality, and his enigmatic weaving of heretical, subtly sexual (dare we even say “gay”?) themes throughout his art. … Read more …

How a Nation of Hysterical Teenagers and Respectable Journalists Was Duped Into Thinking Paul McCartney Was Dead, and Why
First published in The Epitaph, Volume 2, Number 1, January-March, 1996; reprinted in Implosion No. 6, and Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader, Issue 15, Winter, 1996 / 1997. New material added 1998, 2002, and 2008.

In 1969, rumors of the death of Paul McCartney were, like those of Mark Twain’s demise, greatly exaggerated. Where the “Paul Is Dead” rumor began, no one knows for sure, but suddenly every Beatles fans was looking for clues that would reveal the “truth” about the obvious coverup. … Read more…

…and tells us who he finds there

First published in The Epitaph, Number 6, January, 1997

Sean Kelly exhibits the telltale signs of a Catholic education.

For instance, there’s his preoccupation with Heaven and Hell — a preoccupation he wasn’t really aware of until beginning work on the recently released Who in Hell… A Guide to the Whole Damned Bunch, which he co-authored with Rosemary Rogers. … Read more…