Chocosophy Chocolate causes Nobel Laureates 12 Oct 20126 Feb 2013 My research associate, Dr Malte Ebach, has brought to my attention an inadvertent proof of the truth of chocoholism. The New England Journal of Medicine, a most prestigious and scientific journal, has published a paper by Franz H. Messerli, M.D, which shows a strong correlation between the annualised national consumption of chocolate… Read More
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Evolution Cleesing the God Gene 14 Sep 2008 If I weren’t such a reductionist mechanist, I’d probably find this very very funny. And what Cleese does to things deserves its own verb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] Read More
How sad. I was at the performance at which Marceau for the very first time (in his account, anyway) spoke aloud on stage about his work, still in makeup (as Bip, of course) immediately after his performance. He was thoughtful and articulate about his work, and as I learned later that evening at the green room reception for him, a gracious and shy man in the face of too much adulation.
Hey Jonathan, take it easy… He had a long life, in which he made us laugh. I’m sure he’d be happy to see that people remember him with laughter, even when saying farewell. I can’t help but remember a movie by Mel Brooks, a silent movie, which was about the efforts of Brooks to make a silent movie. When he phoned Marceau to convince him to join, Marceau said “No”… which was the only spoken word of the whole movie 🙂
In the face of death, and one after a long and productive life, humour is not unwarranted. This death is not a tragedy, just the passing of time. I’m sure he’d appreciate it (although I suspect he’d heard all those jokes before, with the possible exception of the one in comment #2).
A human life ends and you people crack jokes? No, we pay respect to a great artist by acknowledging the joy that he brought to all of us in his remarkable life, few human beings have done more