friends, i have bad news.

i was perusing TIME, which someone had kindly left in the basement restroom of the library, when his smiling face leapt out at me from the obituaries page.

Howard Keel, star of the most amazing musical movie ever to have graced the silver screen, died of colon cancer. The dapper, courageous, visionary Adam Pottamie of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is no longer with us. But his inspiration and model will live on for all buckskin-clad bearded men with hearts of gold fearlessly trying to find their way (and a wife) in this all too harsh world.

we pause for a moment of silence.