Our Daily Dead

Look Ma! More news! We be weblog’n again.

A sad farewell for the Penn family today as word comes down that Chris Penn was found dead at the tender age of 40. No word on the cause as of yet, but nothing sinister is currently suspected. Chris was the brother of Michael Penn and Sean Penn as you likely know. Imagine growing up in that household and trying to find your identity. All the critics agreed that young Chris had solid, if under-appreciated, talent.

And now, on a slightly lighter note, another fine ODD community service announcement: stumped for that perfect gift for the Chinese New Year or Valentine’s Day or your Johnny Winter birthday (Feb 23) celebration? Mosey on over to Your Novel.com and order up a personalized book. Make it bawdy, steamy, wild or mild. Your choice and you are the star.

Our other ODDguest today is Schafik Handal, the former senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN. Perhaps you will recall the long and bloddy El Salvadorian war of the 1980s. El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, left, right, middle…or perhaps just the voices of the innocent…
Here comes the helicopter — second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they’ve murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher…I’d make somebody pay ~~ “If I Had A Rocket Launcher”, Bruce Cockburn

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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