Our Daily Dead

No long are we tracking the Minuteman and rattlesnakes with the Call of the West ringing in our ears - “I wish I was in Tiajuana eating barbecued iguana”. Thus safely back in the ODDfellow confines and just out of our Cowboy boots we circle the wagons and tickle the plastics to bring you ‘That Was The Week That Was’:

Ezer Weizman - Former Israel President Ezer Weizman, a warrior-turned-statesman who helped build his fledgling state’s air force and later played a key role in peacemaking with Egypt.
John Hultberg - American abstract painter and printmaker who came to the fore with the avant-garde after World War II
Pooru (Paul) Maki - achieved fame in the Japanese TV industry early 1970s with something as simple as a finger snapping routine
Helen Liu Fong - a commercial architect who helped create icons of style in the futuristic coffee shops that sprouted in Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s
Philip Morrison - one of the youngest physicists to work on the Manhattan Project and a leading voice in post-World War II efforts to contain the bomb
Robert Farnon - a composer and arranger who was a leading figure in the once-popular genre of light orchestral music
Earl Wilson - a leading pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, and one of the top home run hitters among major league pitchers
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi - a father of British Pop Art and a leading sculptor of the postwar era
Martin Blumenson - a leading historian of World War II who wrote the U.S. Army’s official account of the D-day invasion and was perhaps the foremost authority on the life of Gen. George S. Patton Jr
Hasil Adkins - artist whose screaming vocals and freestyle approach to rhythm made him a cult favorite among rockabilly fans
Maria Schell - an international film and television actress of the 1940s and ’50s and older sister of actor and director Maximilian Schell
J. B. Stoner - an unapologetic racist whose conviction for bombing a church, divisive political campaigns and vituperations about Jews and blacks made him a benchmark for racial extremism in the United States
Percy Heath - his forceful and buoyant bass playing anchored the Modern Jazz Quartet for its entire four-decade existence
Red Horner - a Hall of Fame defenseman who was one of hockey’s most rugged players of the 1930’s
Saunders Mac Lane - one of the country’s leading mathematicians and a professor at the University of Chicago for nearly four decades

And there you have it. Remember haggling is always worth a try.

In general, we ODDfellows steer-clear of issues around death and resurrection; however, we must comment on t Howard Dean’s threat
to bring back Terri Schiavo as an election issue. Please Howard, the thought of anymore breathless pendants discussing a critical topic using Terri Schiavo as a rallying point, just makes us want to scream
. But before we move on to today’s daily death, we would like to recognize Representative Barney Frank
(D-Massachusetts) for what we ODDones found to be the best quote around the Schiavo situation, ‘If you don’t want a political solution to the problem, don’t ask a bunch of politicians to solve it.’

Philip Pavia built big sculptures
. ‘Nuff said.

Substantial amount of traffic on OurDailyDead yesterday. Anything to do with ‘Death and taxes’?

Check in tomorrow for our Sunday recap, ‘ TW3
: Suitable for Framing or Wrapping Fish.’

Spring is here, the days are warmer, the nights shorter, birds are singing, trees are budding, and plants are blooming. This can mean only one thing–time to get to Costco
and start stocking on SPF 50 sunscreen and DEET
.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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A plenty of passings today with some ODD associations. Andre Norton didn’t need drugs to have a psychedelic experience, through her science fiction, she just created them with her stories of misfits and rites of passage. Speaking of misfits, not so much so for the producers of beat poetry. ‘Peyote anyone?’ may be heard at Lamantia’s memorial reading at Enrico’s Cafe.

Eight out of twenty-four Lalo Guerrero sibs didn’t survive childhood. Yikes, 24 pregnancies, not a record (69), but still impressive. Guerrero was a versatile singer and composer characterized as the Father of Chicano Music. One of his parodies was ‘No Chicanos on TV.’ Today’s quiz, before George Lopez, who pioneered Chicanos on TV before the show jumped the shark ?

Lalo Guerrero was multitalented, but Dick Radatz was a specialist’one, if not the best baseball closers ever. He struck out Mickey Mantle 44 of 63 times, but fell down the stairs and died. Cosmic flyswatter. Here’s you ODDfact of the day, the world record for most steps tumbled down in a stunt fall is 109, held by Martin Shelton.

We probably should place that shy, soft-spoken unpretentious girl with the modest clothing, Lil’ Kim, career ‘On Deck.’ Looks like she will be making some special friends soon.

All right, who just shouted ‘Freebird!’? Cut it out. Put down the Bic lighter and walk slowly, and carefully away. Make sure we can see your hands.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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