The Crippler WINS DeathWatch2K9!!

(As far as we know...) Assuming no other high-profile deaths trickle in to end 2009 (people who died before Feb 2, but the news doesn't hit until later), the Crippler will win his first DeathWatch!

Just for the record, though: I had Artie Lange this year, and he tried very hard to make me this year's DeathWatch winner! He stabbed himself NINE times, clearly intending to die, but he didn't. The 116 points I should have gotten from Artie would have made the Grim Reaper an EASY winner with an all-time high score, and with the highest single-person score in DW history! But it was not to be. *sigh* Now everybody has Artie, and I hope he lives to see 2011.

The Crippler finished with 177 points and six deaths! That point total may stand for a while as the highest in DeathWatch history. Thanatos came in second, going for his third straight win, but falling just short. Thanatos also tallied six deaths, but scored approximately thirty fewer points than the mighty Crippler. The thirty percent death prognostication rate for these two in 2009 was also unprecedented!

I recommend that each of you check your lists to make sure that your score is correct. Make sure that everyone listed as alive on your list is STILL alive. One week from today, I'll be sending out the winnings, so you have until then to contest the results!

Thanks for another fun year, and we now have TWENTY players (biggest DW ever!) over at the new DW2010! (Including the return of former champion Roger Mortis!) See you there!
http://deathwatch2010.blogspot.com

Peace, Love, Death!
Grim

Trapper John, M.D.E.A.D.

Actor Pernell Roberts, who played the oldest Cartwright son on Bonanza before stupidly leaving the show to pursue sitting in his apartment full time, died today at 81.

Roberts, who spent the entirety of the 70s repeatedly kicking himself in the ass for hopping off the gravy train just as it was leaving the station, redeemed himself at least some tiny bit by landing the part of Trapper John McIntire on the quasi-M*A*S*H-spinoff, Trapper John, M.D.

Rumors that Roberts was killed when the ghost of Dan "Hoss" Blocker sat on him are proving hard to verify, as I just made them up.

No DW2K9 players had Trapper.

Miep! Miep!

Miep Gies, one of the people who shielded Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, and who was immortalized in Anne's diary and the play and movies based upon it, died today at age 100.

Not a whole lot of jokes to make here, so I'll just say a quick: Fuck the Nazis!

No DW2K9 players had Miep. Because why would they?