A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

DJ AM, 1973-2009: DJ AM -- celebrity DJ, erstwhile Nicole Richie paramour, and tabloid veteran, all relatedly, I guess -- died today. My first thought was that a guy who cheated death twice, climbing out of both a rock-bottom crack habit and a fiery, deadly plane crash, ought to have been able to cheat it again. That's not the way it works, of course, and the stories today of his struggles to wean himself from painkillers after the crash make his end sound sadly inevitable. The needs of a burn victim and a recovering drug addict are woefully incompatible, so I think I'll see this as a delayed casualty of the crash.