Been too busy working on a super secret project that hopefully will morph into an important part of my future to really spend much time posting here, but couldn’t pass up this opportunity to vent some curmudgeonly steam.

Saw this article on a super smart guy researching whether or not Abraham Lincoln may have suffered from a rare disease.  The part that got me going was the opening sentence, “Did John Wilkes Booth shoot a dying man?”.  Wouldn’t it have been actually more newsworthy if John Wilkes Booth had shot a non-dying man?  Is everyone else in on some piece of history I missed, principally that in some way Lincoln was otherwise immortal except for Mr. Booth’s magic bullet?

That said, would this have been the same magic bullet that ricocheted around so devastatingly through JFK’s limo in Dallas?  Was the bullet also silver?  Were Lincoln and JFK related by the fact they were secretly werewolves or some other such immortal creature with an Achilles heel weakness to magic bullets?

This would be a fun book / screenplay / comic to write.  Could write it into the Underworld universe for the next movie, which might then actually be interesting, or just take it into a stand-alone fictional effort.  Unless of course it isn’t fictional and Lincoln wasn’t in fact dying when Booth shot him, but would have lived forever which would have been cool, cuz I’d still vote for him.

Make a great day, I gotta get back to work.

Originally published April 14, 2008