HERCULANEUM

Holy smokes, this bastard

was sure busy last week, wasn't he? Dang... Got a little carried away there, don't you think, sport?

I have to say that I was greatly saddened by all of the very public deaths last week... And two of the biggest icons of my younger years, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson dying on the same day??? Just really bizarre... It's always so surreal when icons die. As if they're immune to it... As though they only lived in a book.

But, of course, they were real. They laughed and cried and yelled and died, just as we all do and will...

And yes, we've certainly got the birth and death part in common. Not much choice there... But, we do have a choice in how we live... How we chose to be during this precious, fleeting human life.

“Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.”

- Ed McMahon

“Hi, Billy Mays here for..."

- Billy Mays

“God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

But, she also said, "I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"

- Farrah Fawcett (Her Documentary)

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”