WALKING ON THIN ICE

here’s the 13 top earning dead folk from the past 12 months. always said death is a great career move. can’t wait to die and start earning the big bucks myself. of course, anything i made dead would be more than i’m making alive. and my expenditures would be lower.

money kings of the dead
[this is 1st yr elvis did not win]
average death age: 57.7. yrs
average dead earnings: $19 million
average years dead: 20.7 yrs

Kurt Cobain - $50 million
  - died 4.5.1994 - 27 yrs - suicide
Elvis Presley - $42 million
  - died 8.16.1977 - 42 yrs - pills
Charles M. Schulz - $35 million.
  - died 2.12.2000 - 77 yrs - cancer
John Lennon - $24 million
  - died 12.8.1980 - 40 yrs - murder
Albert Einstein - $20 million
  - died 4.8.1955 - 66 yrs - natural causes
Andy Warhol - $19 million
  - died 2.22.1987 - 58 yrs - doctors
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) - $10 million
  - died 9.24.1991 - 87 yrs - natural causes
Ray Charles - $10 million
  - died 56.10.2004 - 73 yrs - liver disease
Marilyn Monroe - $8 million
  - died 8.5.1962 - 36 yrs - pills
Johnny Cash - $8 million
  - died 9.12.2003 - 71 yrs - diabetes
J.R.R. Tolkien - $7 million
  - died 9.2.1973 - 81 yrs - ulcer
George Harrison -  $7 million
  - died 11.29.2001 - 58 yrs - cancer
Bob Marley - $7 million
  - died 5.11.1981 - 36 yrs - cancer

this list is from forbes.com - i try not to use forbes.com because they’re greedy bastards (surprise surprise) - their site takes forever to load cuz i suspect they’re loading my computer with their cookies and ads of mammon.

another site i refuse to go to is rollingstone.com - they’re just as greedy as forbes and take even longer to load.  last time i went there, they refused to let me leave… they disabled my back key. i had to end my session to get away from them. went back in several times over several days to make sure that’s what they were doing. what a sickening selfish low-scum scam from what once was a beacon of hope. wrote them a complaint but they deigned not to answer. that was two years ago. refuse to go back and see if they’ve changed their policy. i am a loyal friend. i am a loyal enemy. i don’t take kindly to self important arrogant flux denying me choice. (just went back to check - they let me out, so this is an old gripe).