Episode 5 - KirstenCast

After too long of a delay, Episode 5 of DGHTS finally arrives! And, as always, you can subscribe to the RSS feed in the upper right corner of the site (or on the title of this post), or download the episode directly...

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However, this time around, no Jeremy in the studio...what's a Steve to do? Enlist the help of our first ever guest host (who also happens to be Jeremy's opponent in the forthcoming zombie debate)! Ladies and gentlemen, Kirsten from HorrorSociety.com joins Steve on this week show for a somewhat inebriated discussion about...well, let's just say there's a lot of movie talk whenever these two old friends get together, and this show is no exception! So let's all join in the fun as Kirsten breaks her broadcasting cherry!

What the f**k is going on lately?!?

First of all, a happy 4th of July to all...now, onto the meat...

Steve McNair, NFL quarterback, found dead today of gunshot wounds, in a downtown condo in Nashville, Tennessee, next to the dead body of a 20-year old woman who was described as a "friend".

Look, I know that when we reach the point here in society where it seems like famous people outnumber us ordinary folk, celebrity deaths will pile up accordingly. But this recent string is almost incomprehensible. In exactly one month, SIX prominent celebrity deaths, and five of those in the last two weeks. On top of that, they can be subdivided into three categories, if one wanted to do so:

The somewhat expected:

Ed McMahon - June 23 - Age: 86 - Ailments: Bone cancer, pneumonia, just being 86 years old

Farrah Fawcett - June 25 - Age:62 - Ailments: Anal cancer

The completely unexpected:

Michael Jackson - June 25 - Age: 50 - Cause of death: Cardiac arrest (cause of cardiac arrest as yet unknown, but theories lean toward drugs)

Billy Mays - June 28 - Age: 50 - Cause of death: Cardiac arrest (cause of cardiac arrest theorized to be hypertensive heart disease)

The potential celebrity scandal:

David Carradine - June 4 - Age: 72 - Cause of death: Asphyxiation (likely brought on auto-erotically, but initially suspected as suicide, and also theorized to be foul play)

Steve McNair - July 4 - Age: 36 - Cause of death: Gunshot wounds (but with a LOT of unanswered questions at this point)

Now, I'll grant you all this, Michael Jackson's death could wind up counting as a 'celebrity scandal' too, but I doubt it. At the risk of editorializing, the Jackson death will get wrapped up and the true cause WILL be found. C'mon, it's Michael Jackson...ain't NO WAY anyone is gonna leave a question mark stamped on this one, not in this day and age.

They say these things happen in three's. Well, there's six for you. Two on the same day, two precisely a month apart, and only a couple of days gap between the other two. Just crazy...

I guess I didn't have a point other than to reflect on something other than my life for a moment, and this is my forum...any thoughts on all of this, anyone?

Happy birthday, America!!