Slog - Comments on Dead TV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv It's not a new story, but in case you missed it: THE remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television. Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old. Her neighbours thought she had moved out of her flat in the capital, Zagreb. But she was found by... Copyright 2008 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:34:17 -0800 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:53:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Cato the Younger Younger I kinda want to go out like that.... it is sorta cool.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062548 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:48:16 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062550 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062550 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:55:35 -0800 Comment by Medina Another example of the "me" generation failing to even check-up on their neighbors. This is a sure sign of the end of civilization.

]]> Medina http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062552 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062552 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:08:08 -0800 Comment by Fnarf She died in 1966. Civilization sure didn't seem to end then. Do you go around checking every apartment on your block, even the ones that have been "vacant" for forty years?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062566 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062566 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:29:56 -0800 Comment by Hartiepie Where is this story from?

Link, please........

]]> Hartiepie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062569 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:32:24 -0800 Comment by Trevor Sorta like Eleanor Rigby died.

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062570 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062570 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:33:07 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball My dear Mudede:

"The wronged woman." Really? That's all you can offer regarding one of fiction's most enduring archetypes? Is Gatsby "that wealthy guy?" Is Bret Ashley "the woman in that bullfighting book?"

Surely you could peck out the relevant letters on your keyboard: M-i-s-s H-a-v-i-s-h-a-m.

Carry on.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062571 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:36:44 -0800 Comment by stinkbug @5 (Hartiepie), one place the story is from is some publication called The Stranger. Scroll down to the Friday June 20th Last Days entry. (It cites a UK's Daily Record story.)

]]> stinkbug http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062574 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:42:24 -0800 Comment by Pippin No, Miss Havisham's mouse condo wedding cake still out does 60's era time capsule.

]]> Pippin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062577 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062577 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:48:46 -0800 Comment by SeMe so she didnt hear the serbian-croatian war outside her window?

there is more to this story, im sure. however, if true, she dissapeared in yugoslavia and died in croatia without moving.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062583 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:56:44 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Miss H. has the grievance, great lines, and the cake (and goes out spectacularly), but Ms. Golik has politics: she is the Last Yugoslavian.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062585 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:58:36 -0800 Comment by max solomon couldn't happen in capitalist america - no one would let space just sit there not making money for that long.

a legacy of communism. they didn't KNOW who OWNED the flat!

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062602 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062602 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:09:50 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Ooh, nice one, Grant!

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062604 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:10:09 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways why didn't you just write her name, Miss Havisham?

Stop being needlessly obtuse.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062606 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:14:09 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @14 -- Obtuse is what Charles has instead of god.

(Sorry for the Papa kick today...)

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062634 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062634 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:29 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Grant @11,

Speaking of intriguing dead people, when's that Marion Zioncheck movie coming out?

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062642 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062642 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:36:02 -0800 Comment by Sad Comment Must have been some damn good tea.

]]> Sad Comment http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062748 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062748 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:49:00 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE She expired waiting for whatever the Serbo-Croatian version of Godot is. And since Godot never comes, so did no one else. Valse triste.

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062902 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1062902 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:25:53 -0800 Comment by CP So this was like, 20 years before Amanda Knox was born, and 40 years before she travelled to nearby Italy? So we can rule her out?

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1063117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/dead_tv#c1063117 Life Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:53:10 -0800