Who Is the Third?

Time for everybody's favorite morbid pop-culture game: as we all know, it's a standard joke that celebrity deaths come in threes. So, who completes this week's triad:

David Foster Wallace, Richard Wright, and ...?

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I'll take Johnny McCain for the block...

Elvis...cause he's not dead yet.

Fidel Castro or Kim Jong Il.

By Elizabeth (not verified) on 17 Sep 2008 #permalink

It'll obviously be someone who produced dark, postmodern art in some other medium, not literature or music.

I'll vote for H.R. Giger.

By Pseudonym (not verified) on 17 Sep 2008 #permalink

apparently some islamic cleric has declared that mickey mouse must die, so don't be too surprised if you see a headline to that effect this week.