This serves as your free warning. Chris "Willis" Wiig will be visiting out to the San Jose area some time in the next few months. You will, for a short time, be able to meet another flagstone in the history of my life. This is not a test. Please fasten your seatbelts. If you don't have seatbelts, well, grab on to the person nearest you and hope they like you enough to strap you into theirs.

Kurt Vonnegut has died. I'm sad to see another great author go. Between him and Hunter S. Thompson being gone, I'm running out of authors I admire. Brust better keep on ticking...

Well, who's going to be number three?

Number one -- let's all take a moment to mourn the passing of the Godfather of Soul. Go on, James. Get up and do your thing. Get into it.

Number two -- we've also lost former President Ford. He was the only president we never elected as Prez or Veep.

So I ask you... who's next?