San Diego cruises, Hollywood suicides, birth defects

Jon says Chinese Eric is wrong, since ECBC isn't in Richmond - I thought Project 416 was last week since Vanessa was talking about Pat and that function as if it had happened already, but I guess not. Maybe it's just his sister, haha. As for Eric, I am fully aware about certain behavior - that's why I'm not telling Henry about anything for certain until later! :P

Well, I guess I'm going on a cruise in early May - we fly to San Diego at the early hour of 8:30 AM (but still better than bus tours that start at 6:30 AM!), can board by 12:30 PM or so, and then take off for Vancouver (again) at 5 PM. The whole thing ends at 7 AM on Thursday or Friday - when I reminded my mom about what happens on Mondays, she said she forgot! Steph had better record the Hour 21 (or whatever) madness for us then - she got my email, and found it insane what Grandma thinks! I'll miss getting caught up on certain things, and I'm not sure that the weekend will be the greatest time to catch up on other things, but I guess we'll see. (or maybe I won't catch up at all, muhahaha!) Corey says he has additional things to mail me from his Taiwan trip, but they wouldn't fit in the postcard - of course not! Then Eric M. gets on to ask about this very blog - you don't want to know, dude! It's all good, since I can be a dork and act crazy! :D


Today's Ironic Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

An aspiring actress, 24-year-old Peg Entwistle was the first suicide to jump from the Hollywood sign. Peg had been struggling unsuccessfully to make it in Hollywood. Desperate and vulnerable, she even posed topless for little pay, but was ultimately left in the city with no money, no friends, and no hopes after just five months. On the night of September 18, 1932, Entwistle told her uncle she was going for a walk, then made her way up the mountain to the foot of the giant "HOLLYWOODLAND" sign. She folded her coat neatly, placed it on the ground beside her purse, and following the American Dream, climbed up the maintenance ladder of the 50-foot H and leapt to her death. However, like a proper Hollywood ending - one so purely ironic I would deride it as contrived crap if only it were fiction - it doesn't end there. Entwistle's body was found two days later, and two days after that, a letter addressed to her from the Beverly Hills Playhouse arrived at her uncle's home. It was postmarked the day before she jumped, and offered her the lead role in their next play, the final act of which ended with her character committing suicide.

Culled from: BAM
Generously submitted by: kelshubert

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They say in Hollywood, timing is *everything*.

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Epitaph Du Jour!

Culled from:
Over Their Dead Bodies: Yankee Epitaphs & History
Authors: Thomas C. Mann & Janet Greene
Date: 1962

Dr. Polycarpus Cushman, 1797, age 47, Bernardston, Mass.:
Vain censorious beings little know
What they must soon experience below.
Your lives are short, eternity is long;
O think of death, prepare & then begone
Thus art & Nature's powers and charms
And drugs & receipts and forms
Yield all, at last, to greedy worms,
A despicable prey.

Thanks to Miyuki for the contribution.

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Morbid Link Du Jour!

Here's a page to inspire birth control: a collection of images of vile birth defects. Be warned!

Thanks to Niddhogg for the link.