[kj] Ian MacKaye clears up death rumors

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

I do not find it  funny at all! I have lost far too many people  and I am 
almost 40 so I find this childish and disrespectful! Death is not funny  at all! 
I knew it was fake when I saw it.
 
Fugazi was not touring for I get updates emailed from Dischord news  now and 
then and they have been not together for some years. Fuckin people  are just 
plain stupid to make that up! 
 
~LB
 
 
 a message dated 10/2/2007 5:53:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net writes:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/critics/blog/2007/10/ian_mackaye
_is_alive_elvis_is.html
A  phone rings at 6:08 p.m. in Arlington, Va. A 45-year-old man picks up. 
The  caller doesn't even have the chance to offer a greeting.

"I am still  alive," reports Ian MacKaye, the frontman of such punk acts 
as Minor  Threat and Fugazi, and the founder of Washington's Dischord  
Records.

This would not be news except that The Sun and apparently  many other 
organizations had been told that MacKaye was, in fact, dead. We  were 
told that he died Monday night at Baltimore's St. Agnes Hospital. A  call 
to the hospital found no evidence of such a patient. We followed up  with 
calls to Dischord (left a message) and to MacKaye's home.

"I  am happy to report that I am not dead," says MacKaye. He and the 
record  company had been blasted with calls, he says, after premature 
reports of  his death were posted on MySpace and Wikipedia. He says he 
hasn't been  able to find the MySpace reference, but had the Wikipedia 
posting removed  -- and then re-removed, once someone reinserted the 
false  news.

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