celebrities and plane crashes. i won't speak in terms of it "making sense," since it's incredibly callous to imagine that such a concept could belong within a 5,000 word radius of a topic like death. and yet: glenn miller; buddy holly, ritchie valens, the big bopper; patsy cline; otis redding and the bar-kays; jim croce; ronnie van zant and stevie gaines; randy rhoads; rick nelson; stevie ray vaughn; john denver; aaliyah. stars fall -- from grace, from the sky, from this life: it's their fate. in the end, all things must fall before they can rise again. next time you see a falling star, wish for a rapid ascension for those on their way down.