
Many thanks to my friend (and frequent Critical Condition commenter) Collin H for designing the world’s best commemorative plate.
Now this I would buy. If you can honor Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Keith Carradine, Billy Mays, and James Dean with one simple payment of $39.95, then you totally should.
In fact, at next year’s Oscar ceremony, I wish that instead of a photo montage of the recently deceased, the producers would just commission a digitized version of this plate, with all the images floating around in it. Maybe winking.Â
(In case you missed it, here’s where this whole plate business got started.)






4 responses so far ↓
1 Collin H // Jul 9, 2009 at 9:56 am
To be honest, I’m not really sure why people are so crazy about James Dean. I mean, he makes good sausage, but pork products aren’t usually a viable springboard to legendary status.
Although speaking of pork legends, Oscar Mayer died yesterday. Maybe I should have included him opposite James Dean as tribute to their decades long supermarket rivalry.
2 Mark // Jul 9, 2009 at 10:04 am
How could he leave out Karl Malden?
3 Moloth // Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 am
I wonder if Michael Hutchence and David Carradine will share some uncomfortable glances in the afterlife…
4 katy // Jul 9, 2009 at 11:33 am
Hey CollinH, where is Robert McNamara? He died, too. I insist he be plate-ized, too.
Sure, he wasn’t so much an entertainment figure, but he *was* the creative mind behind the critically-panned War in Vietnam. And also referenced in a Simon and Garfunkel song title, and the star of Errol Morris’ documentary The Fog of War.
Okay, okay, he can go on the Cold War Heroes plate.
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