Tonight we're supposed to be learning about Cell Division and Patterns of Inheritance. I should be paying attention seeing as we have a midterm next week, but never has something as miraculous as life at the cellular lever seemed as dull as it does right now. Usually Mitosis would be fascinating, but at the moment is's like watching my grandmother play Boggle with herself.
A couple days ago, Shawn and I were driving. We were stuck behind a pick-up with a Dale Earnhart sticker on the back when he made the comment that no one has become more famous by dying than Dale Earnhart. This was a ridiculous statement for two reasons. 1) Dale Earnhart was plenty famous before he died. I have a feeling that when "Ironhead" died, he didn't get a whole lot of new fans. His old fans just got a whole lot sadder, and began pasting 3's to anything they could stick a sticker to. 2) There are so many people who's only claim to fame is that they died. I would liken Dale Earnhart's death to deaths like Kurt Cobain and Princess Di. These people were famous in their respective circles (i.e. the "Seattle grunge music" scene and "the world" scene), but became pop culture icons when they died.
At the time, I tried to illustrate to Shawn what a ridiculous statement he had made, but when asked for examples my mind went blank. So here's just a few people who's names you only know because they're no longer with us. (This is not meant to be morbid, or to make light of these people. I'm just proving a point.)
Jennifer Strange
Nathan Hale
Terri Schiavo
JonBenet Ramsey- (This one seems the most obvious to me... just ask Clyde.)
Stay alive.
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