Our Daily Dead

Martin Nodell has died at age 91. Mr. Nodell was the illustrator created the superhero Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Doughboy. The LA Times reports by way of Newsday that the idea for the Green Lantern came to Mr. Nodell during a subway ride in Manhattan. Mr. Nodell apparently noticed a train man waving a lantern in the dark and coupled this image with the idea of a magic ring and ‘Ta Da’ the Green Lantern was born. Word has it that people from Jerry Sienfield to Donovan to DJ Green Lantern to Francis Ford Coppola all have a special place for the hero. And if that wasn’t enough, Mr. Nodell eventually went on to work for the Leo Burnett advertising agency as art director. WAY back in 1965 his team developed the poke-able (and still going strong) Pillsbury Doughboy.

Teacher, Teacher I Declare
To help you with your outfit for UCLA’s Undie Run may we suggest Funny Undies, Hip Undies, Uptown Undies or Web Undies. Happily also, although we did bite on this, eBay tells us that they have “Undies For Less” and we are certain to find what we are looking for. Does eBay have braces of undies or just the usual one-sie and two-sies do you think? Hopefully after all this you aren’t too undie the weather to participate…

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Eek! A Mouse! We admit to being ODDly torn between the Silly String story, the Mary Cheney (”I Ain’t No Fortunate Son”, er daughter?) story, the “Mom and Dad kidnapped me the day before my wedding” story, the gun in every house (but what about brains?) story, the flatulence downs airliner story, or the continuing tale of Mel Gibson Lunatic For Hire.

The story that has us really nonplussed however is the James Kim story. Why keep going on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere when you are ill-equipped to do so? Why not turn around and head back to the highway? If you are insistent on walking out, why not follow said dirt road back instead of striking off through the woods? Plenty of questions that will likely never be answered, but there is one item we think will come out: hypothermia. The killer in hypothermia is that you THINK you are doing all the right things and making excellent choices, but the sad truth is that you are really in a dangerous downward spiral. Bad news period.

New Age Dating Tips
And here we have a lovely ‘Bad News’ segue…A Cobb County, Georgia police officer is accused of sending an inappropriate (aka nude) photograph to a woman he arrested. Go get ‘em tiger.

Apophis Redux
And just in case you are still tweaked over Apophis the Science Boys have good news about water on Mars. No word if United Van Lines services the area yet however.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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“Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.” ~~ “Piggies”, by George Harrison

Or not, in the case of George Clooney’s bestest little pot-bellied buddy Max (No No No - NOT Danny Devito). Young Max died “peacefully” at the lovely age of 19. Alas poor George…and to think two pet deaths in one year. O’ wither PETA to investigate this? We realize that the lovely and talented Pamela Anderson is preoccupied at present, but isn’t there a second line of defense? (And 10,000 thanks to ChinaDaily for the reprint of the piggy story.)

From our bosom buddies at the LA Times comes word that Perry Henzell has died at 70. Perry’s movie ‘The Harder They Come’ is credited with bringing reggae to the world. You might recall that Jimmy Cliff starred in the movie. The soundtrack features a wide variety of artists including Toots and the Maytals and Desmond Dekker.

And if you find yourself in the Bay Area and in want of free form sax music, check in on the Sax Guy touched on over at Infospigot: The Chronicles

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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