Who gets to do that? On a brutally hot July day, the 1984 Toyota Celica I bought with my temping pay when I moved to LA overheated (again), only this time it happened under a billboard with my face on it. I watched a significant time in my life unfurl without me. The first line of my obituary.īeing dead and alive at the same time has its advantages. The folks at the now-defunct Artisan Pictures bought an odd little midnight offering at Sundance that year called The Blair Witch Project, about three film students who go into the woods to make a documentary about said witch and are never heard from again. It was the marketing department that killed me. It said I was dead on IMDB, a site that was new when I first died in 1999 – a time when people still believed everything on the internet was true. ![]() It’s a complicated thing to be dead when you’re still very much alive and eager to make a name for yourself. M y obituary was published when I was 24.
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