So, the HTB and his friends finally scored some points in the celebrity death pool last week when Sydney Pollack died at 73.  You have never heard such morbid celebration as you when you hear the news that a team’s pick for the celebrity death pool is pushing up the daisies.  Since celebrity deaths always come in clusters of three, if any of the opposing teams had Yves Saint Laurent and Bo Diddley they have also scored some points.  According to the rules that have been explained to me, the younger the celebrity is when they pass the more points that the team gets.  That would mean YSL’s team would have beat the HTB’s team even though Pollack died first.

The pool works similar to fatasy baseball or football leagues, on draft night, once a year, teams sit down and draft celebrities they think are going to die over the course of the next year.  When your celebrity dies your team gets points.  The team with the most points wins the pool of money.  Morbid, eh?  Common?  I am not sure.  This might be a boredom propelled unique phenomenon courtesy of a great dive bar in St. Louis (Kruegers in Clayton).

Since we have our three celebrity deaths, there should be a lull in their pool’s action.  And according to conventional wisdom of celebrity deaths, so I am assuming Kennedy is safe during his surgery.  Either way, rest in peace celebrity three.