RIP Whitney Houston

Glad I'm not the only one. I can't think of a single entertainer that I connect to that deeply. Hard to get worked up about losing someone I've never actually met.

 

THIS.

 

Cobain more than any other. Of course, I was 12 at the time. Even then, I didn't get too broken up over it, but it did affect me.

Jerry Garcia a little bit, too.

 

I hate to admit this, but I actually think I was happy when Michael Jackson died.

I think Cobain is the only one that really registered for me and that was really only because of my age at the time.

I can understand why Lennon's death made such an impact. There's a big difference between killing yourself with drugs and alcohol and being shot outside your apartment.

 

Don't get it, either.

This country's population will still remember Chuck Berry when Houston's a faded footnote.

 

As far as entertainers, John Ritter's death made me pretty sad. He reminds me of my favorite uncle and I grew up watching him on TV.

 

Lennon and Ritter both hit me pretty hard. Probably because they were totally unexpected in a way that, say, Cobain or Joplin or Whitney Houston were not.

Belushi and Farley hurt.

The ones where I was transfixed, of course, were the political deaths -- JFK, RFK, MLK.

 

Farley hit me hard. So did Phil Hartman.

 

How about Heath Ledger?

 

Yeah, forgot Hartman. That stopped me in my tracks, too.

Heath Ledger didn't make a ripple for me. River Phoenix, now ...

 

Still dead.