John Keel Garden Party & Viking Burial Plans
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 24th, 2009
A public announcement being circulated by certain unnamed individuals, which was share here earlier, has been removed due to a request from the organization that put it out. Apparently they are having a very private, exclusive party (you aren’t invited) and they never wished for the details to be made public.
Ooops, someone let something private become public. Obviously, that never happens on the Internet. Keel is laughing his head off someplace.
This all regarded the passing of John Keel on July 3, 2009.
Within, indeed, the now-underground announcement was mention of a secret Viking funeral too. You were suppose to bring a candle. I suggested a torch.
As I did so much to gather images that Keel would have found funny, I’ll post those below anyway, as the foods he liked (tuna, peanut butter, canned ravioli, pudding, Spam, White Castle hamburgers and nothing green) were mentioned.
Images had been added to the announcement to supply the Keelian sense of humor visual value by Loren Coleman. Probably not attending, with or without burgers, are the “White Castle girls,” shown below.
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White Castle? Like, as in, “Harold and Kumar Go To _________”? The main thing I remember about that place is a sickening amount of burgers.
Also… that guy dressed up as a Spam-can scares me.
GREAT CAESAR’S GOAT!
Wish I could get a Viking Funeral when I die.
I’m not “important” enough to warrant that, though.
Very expensive, also, I’ve heard.
Looking at those Girls, though—
I gotta go to White Castle more often.
Yo quiero White Castle!! @_@
How I love those old Spam commercials from way back in the fifties! Thank you, Loren, for posting them. I’d forgotten all about Spam. My favorite is the one where the husband tells the wife not to worry, just open a can of Spam! Aw, that was indeed a simpler time.
If I had been a Heathen,
I’d have piled my pyre on high,
And in a great red whirlwind
Gone roaring to the sky;
But Higgins is a Heathen,
And a richer man than I:
And they put him in an oven,
Just as if he were a pie.
– G. K. Chesterton
A complex man who had simple taste. Rest peacefully.
A viking burial. How appropriate. Well it is nice to know that he got his final voyage to Valhalla. May Odin embrace you as the adventurer you where.