This past Sunday night, as I was winding up weekend occupations - taking care of business at home, writing, checking You Tube here and there - getting ready to go back to work on Monday - this headline about Rob Reiner caught my attention.
(They're all intended to catch our attention, right?)
It said he was dead - I at first thought it's some kind of tasteless click-bait, to make you click. A while ago, when I had not had Internet for very long and I was still learning, a series of videos appeared to me announcing the "deaths" of various famous people. - And they were all still alive!
I thought that was in such bad taste, to assert in a public forum that someone who is alive, is "dead." Really - no class.
(Some people who are more cynical than I am might comment, "Something that was in bad taste appeared on the Internet?? - NO!!!") Ha
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So, Sunday night I read a couple of items on Google and You Tube and realized, Rob Reiner is dead.
And so is his wife.
They were found stabbed to death in their own home, in Brentwood (which is a community, or suburb, of Los Angeles, California).
So that was shocking enough - thinking, What??!!
The news stories said Rob Reiner was 78 years old; his wife was 68.
And then, to add to this series of dominoes falling, one after the other, some of the stories said it's believed / alleged their own son did it.
I was just astounded.
What the actual - ........... ??
We kind of know these things sometimes happen - they get in the news, because they're horrifying and not usual.
But I was still astounded, couldn't believe it.
So shocking.
One of the videos on You Tube the next day showed a reporter talking to the camera, telling us what is known so far, and he finished with the phrase "here in Brentwood."
And when I heard that, I remembered the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman - that was in Brentwood, as well.
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