Well, bother: Chris Penn, who played Nice Guy Eddie Cabot in Reservoir Dogs, died yesterday at age 43 40.

Police found his body in an apartment in Santa Monica, California. No cause of death was noted, but foul play was not suspected. Mr. Penn was the younger brother of Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn, and related by marriage (by way of his musician brother, Michael) to singer-songwriter Aimee Mann.

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to the European news service, Reuters.

EDIT: Mr. Penn's age was previously reported to be 43. Your correspondent regrets the error, which stemmed from believed-to-be-accurate recounting of IMDB information. The IMDB now reflects an age of 40 for Mr. Penn.

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Here's what happens when you go on a binge of playing NCAA Football on the PlayStation 2: You miss things such as JohnL's tagging of you to participate in a meme. JohnL's the guy who was nice enough to get me aboard at mu.nu, so I more than owe it to him to participate, even if I'm horribly behind schedule. Here goes:

Here's what you do:

1. Go to your Netflix (or Blockbuster online) queue.
2. List ALL of the movies in the queue (at the very least, try to list at least the first ten).
3. Italicize (or bold) the ones you've seen before.
3a. (OPTIONAL) include snarky commentary or thumbnail reviews where desired.
4. Tag 3 people.

Er, wait. I don't have a Blockbuster Online or Netflix queue. I don't rent things anymore; I just buy them.

Well, this pretty much shoots that meme in the head. Now I'm in a pickle because I don't know how to proceed. If you flunk step 1, do you have to go to steps 2-4? Tagging people would be...really hard.

Blast it, Biggs.

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