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• The Saddest And Most Hopeful Story in Rock & Roll

  We've wanted to tell you this story involving the Go-Betweens for a long time now, but never felt it had the ending it deserved. The tale of this Australian band is one of the saddest in all of rock... and now, deservedly, one with a potential happy ending... Read More... Posted Nov 13 2008, 09:55 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: rock and roll, music, U2, Bono, death, Friends, heart attack, australia, famous people, sad news, songs, happy ending

• Woman Has Stillborn Baby After Putting Drugs In Her Vagina

  While a pediatrician claims that the drugs a Connecticut drug addict hid in her vagina probably did not contribute to the woman's baby's death, we have to say that, directly or not, they were at least part of the reason... Read More... Posted Sep 09 2008, 01:15 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: drugs, babies, ecstasy, pro-life, vagina, sad news, drug addiction, arrest, pro-choice, drug deals, birth, dui

• Homophobic Propagandist Fred Phelps Will Picket Heath Ledger's Funeral

  We don't want to believe this, but if we try real hard and remember our childhood in the Bible Belt, we can almost see this happening, almost. Fred Phelps, the infamous homophobic propagandist, plans to picket Heath Ledger's funeral. You know, for that whole gay cowboy thing. Infuriating flyer after the jump.  Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 02:43 PM by Emily Farris with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: dead people, obituaries, death, Heath Ledger, christians, church, sad news, gay cowboys, baptists, homophobics, fred phelps

• John Travolta Calls Heath Ledger an Inspiration

  We'll leave the gay cowboy jokes up to you. [People: John Travolta Calls Heath Ledger an Inspiration]  Posted Jan 23 2008, 01:16 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: dead people, death, Heath Ledger, sad news, john travlota, gay cowboys

• Heath Ledger, Dead at 28

  I think I speak for all the Scanner bloggers, when I say we're really torn up over the untimely death of Heath Ledger. It's always sad when someone so young and talented dies, but something about Heath made him seem like he was 'one of us.' Maybe it was the fact that, for a while, he chose to live in Brooklyn, where Scanner Bryan saw him on the street and Scanner Emily would walk past his house every day on her way home from the subway, hoping to catch a glimpse of Ledger with then fiancee Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda. Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 09:27 AM by Emily Farris with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: dead people, obituaries, death, Heath Ledger, sad news