ESPN reports Evel Knievel dead at only 69. For some reason I plan to go play Link Wray.

“I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that’d be a good age,” Knievel said in an interview with Vanity Fair for a story that will run in the magazine’s February issue. “I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

“All my life people have been waitin’ around to watch me die. But I’m still here. I really think that there is a hereafter and this is just a testing ground. Years ago I was just helter-skelter. I defied death. And I’m still doing it — only from a bed instead of a bike. There’s just no quit in me. There’s just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-bada-boom-bada-boom. Now it’s just bing, but I’m still Evel Knievel. I am. There’s just nothing you could do to stop me.”

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