Dead Celebrity

Indeed.

Once ran into her. She was visiting a Gunther van Hagens exhibition. They closed it down for her early, but I was still in when she entered. Nice lady. Was surprised about her size - I was under the impression she would have been taller. But she had enough charisma to fill the room.

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Not sure if their act ever made it to the US…but for a while they were very popular in the UK.

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Not a celebrity, exactly? Alphonse was one of my professors in graduate school. He was a weird dude and a unique force in the studio furniture world. I’ll miss him.

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I’ll take “being known to relatively few people for actually doing something worthwhile” over “being known for - being known” on any day.

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Not a celebrity, but a life-saver.

Archive version: https://archive.ph/ohHGX

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It’s telling how much of an influence he really was by the fact that no one, not even conservatives, speak highly of him or even of him in general anymore.

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