Posts Tagged ‘celebrity death’
Houdini’s Final Disappearing Act
30, Oct 2009A Halloween Tale: Houdini’s Lonely Grave (New York Times Video Library) Harry Houdini was quite a character. Not only was he one of the most heralded magicians of his generation, but the mystique surrounding the man grew exponentially when he died on October 31, 1926. Some believed Houdini to be a practitioner of the “dark [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Cemeteries
- Tags: celebrity death, spiritualism
Poe’s Funeral Draws Hundreds
12, Oct 2009Edgar Allan Poe Finally Getting Proper Funeral Ben Nuckols, Associated Press (October 6, 2009) The late Edgar Allan Poe had a memorial service Sunday, October 11, in Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, that late Edgar Allan Poe—the beloved American writer of the macabre who has been dead for 160 years. Hundreds of mourners in period dress, including [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, memorializing
Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on Twitter Elsa Kim and Sam Gilbert with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff Web Ecology Project (August 18, 2009) via Fast Company, “Has Twitter Handicapped Our Ability to Mourn?” (Dan Macsai, August 20, 2009) It was bound to happen, in fact, I’m surprised [...]
Pocket Cemetery, the Breakfast Bar of Grief
6, Jul 2009Bereaving the latest celebrity death, or perhaps your dog? Need an on-the-go cemetery for your on-the-go life? Want to pay $2.99 to type “RIP” and click send into an unread utter void, also known as the Prayer function? There’s an app for that. Pocket Cemetery for the iPhone allows you to inscribe virtual tombstones for [...]
Michael Jackson Set to Be Embalmed at the O2 Centre after Missing the Deadline for Cryogenic Freezing Mail on Sunday (June 26, 2009) It looks like Michael Jackson might get his world tour after all — or at least a perpetual stream of curious fans trotting past his moonwalking corpse. The day following the singer’s [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, cryonics, plastination