Deathsweep: “The long-odds runners are finishing first”

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

It seems fate has conspired to make our seemingly well considered choices apparently lacking in imagination. The reaper has called on many illustrious souls this year, none of whom were even pondered in the sweep. Who’d have bet on Ledger’s shock exit? Unforeseeable based on the evidence available to us, but what a wild card [...]

Deathsweep Geekery

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Just satisfied my inner geek with the addition of Deathsweep notifications to the blog. If you look in the column to the right you’ll see a widget titled “Deathwatch”; this is an RSS feed from the Times Obituaries section - about as reliable a source as you can get. I’ve also found a service that [...]

Deathsweep 08: Update #2

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Deathsweep ‘97 runner up Biggie Smalls
After being too lazy to update yesterday, it’s about time our glorious sweepstake was officially brought up to speed.
Since the last post we’ve seen some shocking Twitter admissions, with Willy/deefball professing a love for Enya, that Stitchy stuck out school long enough to do an RPR and finally the [...]

Deathsweep 08: Today’s update

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Deathsweep 08 received more updates, saw more insults and witnessed bitter recriminations today in a furious flurry of Twitter based activity.
Ready to pop with frenzy, Twitter-powered Deathsweep is set to explode like a motherfucker in 2008 and now there’s nothing any of us can do to stop it. If you were trying to beat us, [...]