Monthly Archives: July 2007

Golden Gate Bridge suicide report released

July 31, 2007
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From the Chron: The study, released on Monday by Marin County Coroner Ken Holmes, whose office handles most deaths from the bridge, showed that over 85 percent of the people who jump are Bay Area residents. The average jumper was 41.7 years old; men outnumber women nearly 3 to 1; and whites account for 83 percent of the dead, Holmes found in his review of data from January 1996 to July 26 of this year. On average, two people per month jump to their deaths from the bridge, Holmes said, but the number has recently increased to nearly three...

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Ingmar Bergman died today…

July 30, 2007
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at his home in Sweden, at the age of 89. Here’s his Wiki page. Or check out his amazingly lengthy and varied ouvre at IMDB. According to IMDB, the iconoclastic director’s favorite movies were Utvandrarna (1971), La Dolce vita, La (1960), and Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953). He had at least nine children, among them Liv Ullman. He wasn’t related to actress Ingrid Bergman, although, confusingly, he married a woman named Ingrid who took his last name. Bergman described his less-than-idyllic childhood in his autobiography, The Magic Lantern. His daughter Liv followed in his footsteps when she published...

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Mid-Ranking Republicans Charged with Identity Theft

July 27, 2007
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Help! A republican stole my name! This from the official website of the GOP, regarding recent additions to the Republican National Committee Communications team: Michelle Richmond is the Assistant Press Secretary. Richmond joins the RNC after having served as Press Assistant to Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO). Originally from Virginia, Richmond has worked on several local campaigns as well as interned for then-Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). While it is true that I would like to Whip Roy Blunt, I’ve never interned for him. Ditto for Lott. Who is this alleged Michelle Richmond and why is she giving me...

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Mrs. Dalloway’s tonight

July 26, 2007
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I’ll be reading from THE YEAR OF FOG tonight at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley, 7:30. This is a really cool store, with books, gardening supplies, and art. And of course, plenty of good eats nearby.

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Literary Mystery: Suicide of famous art couple

July 25, 2007
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There’s an interesting article in the LA Times on the suspected suicide-by-drowning of “rising art star” Jeremy Blake, who is thought to have wandered “into the ocean off New York’s Rockaway Beach — presumably to his death — a week after he discovered that his blogger-filmmaker girlfriend, Theresa Duncan, had taken her life in their East Village apartment.” The couple’s troubles apparently began in 2004, after they did an album cover for Beck, who is a Scientologist. Duncan and Blake became convinced that the Scientologists were stalking them, paranoia which seems to have led to Duncan’s suicide. Of course,...

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