Guardian:
The McDonald's chairman and chief executive, Jim Cantalupo, architect of a dramatic turnaround at the fast food business, has died of an apparent heart attack, the company said yesterday. McDonald's shares closed down more than 2.5% on the news.
I know, not entirely original. Atkins, the diet guru, was supposedly a fatty in terrible shape when he died, right?
Appropo of nothing, this all reminds me of comic Bill Hicks ranting about the running advocate Jim Fixx:
I'm Jim Fixx and I'm dead now. And I don't know what the fuck happened. I jogged every day, ate nothing but tofu, swam five hundred laps every morning, and I'm dead. Yul Bryner drank, smoke, and got laid every night of his life. He's dead. Shit! Yul Bryner's smokin', drinkin', girls are sitting on his cueball noggin, every night of his life! I'm running around a dewy track at dawn. And we're both fucking dead. Yul used to pass me on his way home in the morning, big long limousine, two girls blowing him, cigarette in one hand, drink in the other. "One day that life is going to get to you, Yul." They're both dead. Yeah, but what a healthy looking corpse you were, Jim. Look at the hamstrings on that corpse! Look at the sloppy grin on Yul's corpse! Yul Bryner lived his life. Sure, he died a 78-pound stick figure, okay. There are certain drawbacks.




