Dead Pool 6th October 2024

No points this week, but some good news regarding the website. I will be migrating to a new host in the next couple of weeks, so the problems some of you are experiencing will all hopefully go away. So there might be some disruption for a couple of weeks whilst it all gets sorted out. 

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In Other News

Frankie Valli has addressed a series of viral TikToks that sparked concern among fans over his recent live performances. The Four Seasons crooner, 90, has been the subject of a number of clips doing the rounds on social media. In one, he is seemingly a few beats behind the choreography of his classic single “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)”. Another shows the band performing “Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)”, where Valli appears to miss some of the lyrics. Some fans claimed that he appeared to be lip-syncing. “He needs to rest,” one viewer commented, while another said he looked “exhausted”. In a statement to the Flying Monkeys on Monday, Valli dismissed the concern as he insisted he still loves performing live shows. “I know there has been a lot of stuff on the internet about me lately so I wanted to clear the air. I am blessed to be 90 years old and still be doing what I love to do and as long as I am able, and audiences want to come see me, I am going to be out there performing as I always have,” he said. “I absolutely love what I do. And I know we put on a great show because our fans are still coming out in force and the show still rocks.” Valli said he’d had a “chuckle” reading the comments from those wondering if he was being “forced” to go on stage. “Nobody has ever made me do anything I didn’t want to do,” he said. “How do we do the show?! The Four Seasons sound was always about layering vocals and instruments. We use our 60 years of experience so we sound like the records. I sing, I have singers who sing, great arrangements… everything.” Valli’s statement concluded: “I plan to be doing shows as long as I can, delivering that great Four Seasons sound. Like that line in Jersey Boys, I’m like that bunny on TV, that just keeps going and going and going. Chasing the music.”  

Popular Cuban reggaeton artist El Taiger is said to be in “very critical condition” after he was shot in the head. The 37-year-old Latin American singer, whose real name is Jose Manuel Carbajal, was found Thursday morning in a black Mercedes SUV with a gunshot wound, Miami Police Department officials said in a press conference on Friday. After first responders rendered first aid, he was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he underwent surgery and remains in “very critical condition,” according to Miami Chief of Police Manuel Morales. An investigation is ongoing. “We’re confident that we’ll get to the bottom of this and solve this incident,” Morales said. “It is a tragic incident that has shaken our local South Florida community.” Carbajal suffered significant brain damage and was put on life support, according to the Flying Monkeys. Miami police spokesperson Mike Vega told us that it is not yet known whether the gunshot wound was self-inflicted. Officials do not believe that the incident happened in the same place Carbajal was found. “Our officers are investigating because we think this didn’t happen in the city of Miami,” Vega said. “We’re sure that it didn’t happen in that corner where the vehicle was found. This happened in another place; someone brought him here, left him, and left on foot.” Carbajal’s manager, Macel Reinosa, told the Flying Monkeys that “nobody on the team believes that he tried to commit suicide, based on what they are saying on the bullet.” “It was in the front of his head, so I would really doubt someone would shoot himself and then get on the back of the trunk by himself,” Reinosa said. Carbajal is well-known within the Latin music community for his contributions to reggaeton, a music genre characterised by its blend of Caribbean rhythms and urban beats. Some of his most listened-to tracks include “La Historia” and “La Guariconfianza.” 

Janey Godley has revealed the “worst thing” about dying as she receives end-of-life care. In September, the Scottish comedian confirmed that her cancer had spread and she is now getting palliative care in a hospice. “The chemo ran out of options and I just couldn’t take any more of it and the cancer has spread,” the 63-year-old said in a video at the time. “So it looks like this will be getting to near the end of it and it’s really difficult to speak about this and say to people.” In an interview with the Flying Monkeys, conducted together with her 38-year-old daughter, Ashley Storrie, Godley revealed what she believes to be the “worst thing” about approaching the end of her life. Godley said that she  dreads to think of the day she is unable to see Ashley, a comedian and actor, who she called “the best thing to come out of my vagina”. “She’s my big success in life and I’m dead proud of her,” Godley added. “The worst thing about me dying is not being able to see her. I can’t imagine being a spirit and not having her in my orbit.” Similarly, Godley said the “worst” part of her cancer diagnosis was having to tell her daughter. “The worst part of it was having to tell Ashley,” Godley told the publication. “She has always been a catastrophiser; telling her was like throwing a hand grenade.” Godley was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, and has undergone treatment since then, which she called “dreadful”. “I had been on chemo, which kept pushing it back, but have run out of options and the cancer has spread,” she told us. “So it looks like this will be getting to near the end of it. I’m now in palliative care and at end-of-life care in the hospital. It is devastating news to know that I’m facing end-of-life, but we all come to an end sometimes.”

On This Day

  • 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.
  • 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
  • 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
  • 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
  • 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

Deaths

Dead Space

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your body if you were to die out in space? Researchers have put their brains together to answer the difficult questions regarding the unusual scenario.

NASA are planning another space mission to send humans to the moon within the next seven years, with wilder plans to send people to Mars in the 2030s. The journey to the red planet will require a long-distance mission and many months in space. Because of this, there’s a need to consider how humans will survive such a long time out in the ether. 

Since the beginning of human spaceflight over 60 years ago, 20 people have died. However, none of these deaths were actually in space and were due to failed launches before leaving the Earth’s atmosphere.

Though NASA hasn’t illustrated set protocols for dealing with a death that happens in space (because they haven’t had to deal with it yet), some of the world’s space researchers have come up with their own hypothesis.

One of the ways someone could die in space is by being exposed to its vacuum without having a suitably pressurised suit to protect them.

Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and former commander of the International Space Station, shares his thoughts on what could be the worst possible outcome.

He said: “In the worst case scenario, something happens during a spacewalk. You could suddenly be struck by a micro-meteorite, and there’s nothing you can do about that. It could puncture a hole in your suit, and within a few seconds you’re incapacitated.”

Here comes the gruesome part. You probably thought it was just a dramatic effect for films, but nope. 

Emmanuel Urquieta, professor of space medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, described the horrific death experienced by an astronaut who was exposed to the vacuum, saying that it would become impossible for them to breathe and their blood and other bodily fluids would effectively boil. According to Popular Science, the unfortunate astronaut’s blood would vaporise, along with the water in their body, in just 10 seconds. They would lose consciousness in 15 seconds as their body horrifically expanded and their lungs collapsed. They’d be paralysed or more likely dead in 30 seconds, most likely of asphyxiation or decompression.

Then there’s the issue of burial – or lack thereof. If someone died on Mars, Urquieta explained burial or cremation wouldn’t be possible as they ‘could contaminate the Martian surface’. He said ‘the crew would likely preserve the body in a specialised body bag until it could be returned to Earth’. If the astronaut was unlucky enough to die out in space, their body would eventually enter a frozen or mummified state and float through the ether – potentially for millions of years, since there’s no oxygen to prompt decomposition – until it was destroyed by a planet or star, or perhaps heat or radiation.

A cheery thought for a Sunday.

Last Week’s Birthdays

Elisabeth Shue (61), Emily Mortimer (53), Ioan Gruffudd (51), Britt Ekland (82), Kate Winslet (49), Guy Pearce (57), Jesse Eisenberg (41), Karen Allen (73), Diane Morgan (49), Clive Barker (72), Neil deGrasse Tyson (66), Liev Schreiber (57), Dakota Johnson (35), Alicia Silverstone (48), Christoph Waltz (68), Susan Sarandon (78), Melissa Benoist (36), Nick Mohammed (44), Alicia Vikander (36), Lena Headey (51), Denis Villeneuve (57), Neve Campbell (51), Clive Owen (60), Seann William Scott (48), Noah Schnapp  (20), Gwen Stefani (55), Lorraine Bracco (70), Avery Brooks (76), Sting (73), Brie Larson (35), Charles Edwards (55), Julie Andrews (89), Zach Galifianakis (55), and Monica Bellucci (60).

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