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Rick James Dead

Rick James is dead. I know I made fun of him a lot, given the whole Chappelle thing, but...damn. We made up a dance to Super Freak. Peformed it at a family function and got grounded immediately. He certainly was a super freak in many ways. But he made some damn good music. Also: I question the timing of this.

Posted by me on August 6, 2004 03:38 PM | Permalink

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Comments

Can we voluntarily restrain ourselves from using the Tombstone Generator to enter the obvious 3-word phrase?

Posted by: Hubris | August 6, 2004 03:45 PM

I'm trying, Hubris. Trying.

Posted by: michele | August 6, 2004 03:46 PM

Sigh.

Posted by: michele | August 6, 2004 03:50 PM

I know..it was too hard. I felt like a kid trying not to touch something shiny.

Posted by: Hubris | August 6, 2004 03:52 PM

like trying not to push the history-eraser button. The big, jolly, candy-like button.

Posted by: Britton | August 6, 2004 04:09 PM

Natural causes? Not when you're 56.

Cocaine IS a hell of a drug...

Posted by: RyMaN600 | August 6, 2004 04:11 PM

Maybe it was all-natural cocaine?

Posted by: Laurence Simon | August 6, 2004 04:14 PM

He's now in the nasal candy factory in the sky.

Posted by: Zoloft | August 6, 2004 04:18 PM

There needs to be a spew-warning on these comments. Between this, and the speech clip I watched earlier today ("Our enemies are innovative and resourceful.....they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."), my poor monitor!

Posted by: robyn | August 6, 2004 04:24 PM

Not to mention your keyboard.

Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Posted by: David R. Block | August 6, 2004 05:47 PM

In the post above this one, Michele makes an excellent point in shining attention on whackos who've desecrated Jewish graves in New Zealand.

I know Rick James had a lot of personal problems, but why piss on his death like this.

Posted by: Macswain | August 6, 2004 06:16 PM

"I'm room temperature, bitch!"

Posted by: Angus Jung | August 6, 2004 08:43 PM

Could someone please give Macswain back his sense of humor? I can think of a lot worse send-offs Rick James could have gotten than a few mild jokes.

By the way, I think the fact that no matter how big and important we think we are we all get a dirt nap at the end is one of the funniest jokes God has played on the universe. "Suckers! Gotcha!"

Posted by: Andrea Harris | August 6, 2004 08:48 PM

Andrea,

You're right!!! My bad. Sometimes I have a hard time recognizing the proper lines of decorum re Righty humor; especially gravestone humor.

But here ... let me give it a try:

Ronald Reagan
1911-2004

"I Appeased More Terrorists
Than the Philippines, Bitch!"

R.I.P.

Posted by: Macswain | August 7, 2004 03:09 AM

Macswain, let me spell it out for you.

The headstone does not say anything disparaging. In fact, it's just a take on something Rick James himself said.

Also, your comparison of this fake headstone to the people who knocked real graves over is, well, idiotic.

Posted by: michele | August 7, 2004 07:16 AM

You're a sad, bitter little man, Macswain. It must suck to be you.

Posted by: Andrea Harris | August 7, 2004 10:02 AM

I thought my Reagan thing was funnier than his anyway, but maybe it's just me.

Posted by: Hubris | August 7, 2004 11:49 AM

Bwah! Yes, yours was definitely funnier.

Posted by: Andrea Harris | August 7, 2004 06:22 PM

Thanks Andrea. ;)

Posted by: Hubris | August 8, 2004 05:43 PM

Heh...

Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | August 8, 2004 06:59 PM

Michele, Not disparaging? Check all your commenters and also apply the Golden Rule test to your own "I'm Dead, Bitch" crack? He may've been just a caricature to you, but he had friends, family and fans.

Andrea, Your 10:02 am post made my point (though I doubt you realize it).

Hubris, your shit was funny. I especially liked the part where Reagan is still so detached from reality that he thinks liberals had a problem with his fondness for jellybeans, as opposed to, say, things like his support for the South African apartheid regime. Ha Ha Ha ... you make it like he didn't even have a clue as to what liberals really thought of him.

Posted by: Macswain | August 8, 2004 08:25 PM

Macswain, that you don't understand that the post was gently poking fun at both his critics and Reagan himself is ample proof of a need to lighten up.

Or, you could continue to consider every utterance within the context of some Right versus Left holy war ("Righty humor"? When the subject is Rick James? Huh?). I see that as more than a bit sad, though.

Posted by: Hubris | August 9, 2004 08:56 AM

Natural causes? Sure. After all, he was somewhere in his late 80s or early 90s, in crackhead years.

Posted by: Alex | August 9, 2004 01:13 PM

Natural causes? Sure. After all, he was somewhere in his late 80s or early 90s, in crackhead years.

But damn, "Give It To Me Baby" was a hell of a song.

Posted by: Alex | August 9, 2004 01:14 PM

do you about puncation it's i'm dead btich.

Posted by: meio | August 17, 2004 11:47 PM

do you about puncation it's i'm dead btich.

Posted by: meio | August 17, 2004 11:47 PM

meio,

The tombstone generator doesn't allow an apostrophe.