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Notable Passings and other milestones

This is the time to check for eBay prices. It's surprising sometimes how they can change with certain media events.
The first Superman Comic just sold for $23 million. It had been stolen in it's past from Nicholas Cage when it was only with 200,000. When he sold it he got 2.3 million. The notoriety has helped inflate the price.
 
Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead.

TV and movie actor T.K. Carter. (Nauls in "The Thing" and many other roles.)


I was an early Dead Head. Saw them at Wembley, couldn't understand why the audience was so incredibly quiet and laid back...!

grateful dead poster by Username Vixen, on Flickr

Spot the Grateful Dead poster on my childhood bedroom wall.
 
I'm afraid I found him a bit of a fraud when he claimed to have physical artefacts as proof. I enjoyed reading stuff like Edgar Cayce and Robert Anton Wilson, Graham Hancock - even the Holy Grail brigade at a pinch - just as an interesting alternative view. For example, I am currently reading The Holographic Universe [ed. corr], which goes completely against my scientific psychology training, where all such ponderings are woo-ooo, but is food for thought. I didn't feel von Däniken's book was an intellectual exercise, more of his trying a fast one. (It was a long time ago so I am prepared to adjust my opinion as possibly being a kneejerk one.)
 
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I was an early Dead Head. Saw them at Wembley, couldn't understand why the audience was so incredibly quiet and laid back...!

grateful dead poster by Username Vixen, on Flickr

Spot the Grateful Dead poster on my childhood bedroom wall.
I came to them rather late, but saw them on the first night of their last visit to the UK - Wembley Arena, 1990.

There were so many people in the car-park looking for a miracle, they did two more nights.
 
He was a grifting kook
Yep.

One of his claims I remember is a claim about a carving of a figure apparently showing a human skeleton (I think it was a South American culture) and that they couldn't have known about skeletons before x-rays so the knowledge had to have come from elsewhere i.e. his ancient alien astronauts...
 

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