On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 04:40:29 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/22/2016 12:03 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:38:18 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

In a different manner, he was about as strange as Michael Jackson, and far more gifted. Now it's suspected that he may have died from a drug overdose, which wouldn't surprise me...

In show biz terms he was not near as nuts as Michael.
Most of those folks are pretty strange tho.

If it was a drug thing, I would think nose candy. He doesn't look like
a downer guy but who knows. It might be as simple as a heart attack.
This thing will be beat to death. It was the only thing on TV today,
knocking Trump and Hillary out of the "A" block, even on the network
news.
In a few days we will hear the official COD and a half dozen theories
about what it really was.



Heard last night that he had just been administered Narcan for an
overdose (probably heroin) shortly before he died. Sounds like drugs to me.


I am about done with Prince. They preempted the overnight news on CNN
with prince. That is usually the best news show on TV because it is
their international feed.
If this turns out to be another one of those people who was so
depressed because he was too rich and famous that he needed heroin, I
am really done.