HE DIED REALLY LOUDLY

"THUMBS UP FOLKS AT HOME!!!" — Billy Mays

Forget Michael Jackson, who died Thursday last, for a far greater cultural figure has upped and died on us: infomercial king Billy Mays was found dead at his home in Tampa, Fla. today. Mays probably roared at you recently from a TV screen: he shouted the verities of OXICLEAN!!! and the AMAZING SHAMWOW!!! from the mountain tops, and was one of very few people who induced me to yell at the television. May he roast in peace. Sorry, REST. REST IN PEACE.