Roman gets arrested, my son loses his first, life via Twitter, Indiana Jones reincarnated? and thank goodness for Jewish Holidays.

The big story to hit last week was the arrest of Roman Polanski in Zurich after 32 years on the run for molestation charges.  I might talk about my son too much, but if I do, let me know.  This last week he lost his first baby tooth and the results weren’t quite what I expected.  Even though it’s 4-weeks away we went out and picked up a Halloween costume so we could beat the rush at the stores.  Here’s another adventure I had with my son at the miniature golf course.  Thank goodness he was too young to understand what I was talking about.  People keep talking about Twitter ever since Oprah joined the bandwagon.  I found this video online of what life would be like if you could only talk in 140 characters or less.  Speaking of videos I had a conversation of the de-evolution of the music video and the Primus video Mr. Krinkle was mentioned.  While on the topic of work, I saw a guy last week using The Club on his car to protect it from being stolen.  I’m wondering what decade we’re living in!  People still use that stuff and think that their car will still be safe?  Last Monday was Yom Kippur and it was a slow day at work.  Amazing how much a Jewish holiday affected our work flow, amongst other things.  Also, you won’t believe what I saw at McDonald’s.  Let’s just say it’s a fashion statement I’ve never seen before!  And lastly, I complain about people who think that their pets are kids!

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If you haven’t heard already 80′s film director John Hughes passed away today.  Being a child of that grew up in the ’80′s I related to all of his films back them.  I always wanted to be Ferris Bueller or John Bender or even Kevin McCallister and to live in Shermer, Illinois.

This isn’t the point of this posting.  I can go on for hours talking about his films in detail.

I kill people. 

Okay, maybe that’s a little over the top, but my timing always seems to be impeccible.

Last weekend I was flicking through the channels and came across the Steve Martin/John Candy movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.  Of course, my laptop was near me when watching TV so I figured I’d go to Wikipedia and look up a little bit about John Hughes to see what he’s up to nowadays.

Fast forward to today – John Hughes dies of a heart attack, aged 59.

Okay, so I looked up a celebrity online and they die very soon after.  But, I have done this several times.  I know that I’ve looked up several other people on Wikipedia before to see if they were alive and still working and, not long after, they pass on.

The one other instance that I can think of is the actress Yvonne De Carlo.  A few years ago I was watching TV (as always) and stumbled across “The Munsters” show and was wondering if Lily Munster (aka Yvonne) was still alive.  (I knew the kids were alive and the other adults passed on, but was curious about her.)  So, I meandered over to Wikipedia and was suprised the she was still kicking at age 84!

Two days later she was dead.

I know these are two instances that are 2 1/2 years apart from each other, but I have looked up a couple of other celebrities, who weren’t in the limelight, on Wikipedia just before their death.  I wish I could think of their names now, but I know that this has happened before to me.

So, if you are famous and have a Wikipedia entry online, pray that I don’t look you up one day to see what you’re up to.