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R.I.P. Yabby You
R.I.P. Teddy Pendergrass
Good morning, bummer.
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And R.I.P. Willie Mitchell
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I didn't know Yabby You was still around. He has been delivered from his enemies.
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Man, I totally missed that Willie Mitchell died. Bummmmmmmer all over again.
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I'm reading Anne Frank's diary for the first time right now and was super bummed to hear about Miep.
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Used to have a red guitar
‘Til I smashed it drunk one night
Smashed it in the classic form
As Peter Townshend might
Threw it in the fireplace
Left it there a while
Kate she started crying when she saw my sorry smile
Red guitar was made of wood
It could not take the heat
Red guitar it caught on fire
And the damage was complete
It burned until all that was left
Were six pegs and six strings
Kate she says, “You are a fool.
You've done a foolish thing.”
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DAMMIT
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WHOA Kate McGarrigle, that's awful. Had no idea she was sick.
I bet me & 3 other people will be about all that cares on this board.
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RIP Jack White
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RIP The Blues
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Did James Belushi die?
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Jack White Bro
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So James Belushi is still alive??? I'm fucking sweating over here!!!
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rip eric rohmer
actually, goodbye. your films sucked.
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It appears Howard Zinn died today of a heartattack
Zinn dies at the age of 87
An incredibly important peace activist and academic.
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Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee.
His soul has flown onto the roof, and gotten stuck.
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Aagh, I missed news of Zinn's death until now.
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Walter Frederick Morrison, dogs with red bandanas around their necks are sad everywhere today.
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I keep a soft spot for Merlin's turn in Little House but UGH he was such a priss as a sportscaster, A proto-Joe Buck.
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Yeah. Little House, though. Wasn't there some episode where a huge tree fell on his legs? That shit tore me up as a little kid.
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A "proto-Joe Buck?!" That sounds intense.
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Fess Parker, tv's Davy Crockett.
Damn, I'm like the Angel of Death around here.
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Maybe you should get a hobby that doesn't involve stalking the obits, Orbit.
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Just making sure I'm not in there.
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oh my god, I didn't even know Kate McGarrigle died...where the f have I been. I'm really bummed out about this. I love that album The McGarrigle Hour.
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R.I.P Phil Wood
Posted: March 19th, 2010 by Jeff Lockwood
News broke early this morning that Phil Wood, the sealed-bearing hub and bottom bracket innovator who founded the company that bears his name, passed away at his farm in Iowa earlier this week. He was 84 years old.
Wood founded Phil Wood & Co. in 1971 to sell maintenance-free hubs. The company grew over the years and continued to create innovative cycling components like bottom brackets, pedals, tubing, disc brakes and a really cool professional-grade spoke cutting and threading machine, which you can see in action in this video clip.
Wood sold the company in 1991, and moved to Iowa in 1995 where he remained away from the glitz and glamour of the bicycle industry. Lavada, his wife of fifty years, preceded Wood in death in December of 2009.
:(
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pip proud, dead.
RIP
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Ed Roberts, inventor of the Altair 8800.
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Angove just hit me like a ton of bricks. I'll have to drink another bottle of screw-top red to get through the evening.
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wizard of oz coroner at 94
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Dixie Carter!
lame.
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Totes had a cougar crush on her. R.I.P.
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whoah, rip dixie.
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trailerdiva
4/10/10 3:41 PM
wizard of oz coroner at 94
Nooooo! I have a tiny statue of him in my office.
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dylan?!?
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Dixie Carter was 70 and married to Hal Holbrook?!
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yup.
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that's awesome Emily!
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Peter Steele - Type O Negative vocalist
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whoa whoa WHOA -WAIT A MINUTE? PETER STEELE?
Damn, what a shock. Heart failure at 48. He finally returns to the Earth's sweet embrace.
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posing for Playgirl takes ten years off yr life
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I hope he didn't die.
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Too bad. Steele made some decent music. Not recently really, but Carnivore and the early Type-O shit was good. Also Type-O always put on a great live show. A sad day for early-90's metal heads.
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Type O missed a show with Pantera years back because Steele's dad died of heart failure.
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"Everyone I Love Is Dead".
pitpat: Better than Playgirl, he did a spread for Dirty, which was a short-lived skin mag that attempted to appeal more to the underground rock world. Each issue had a pictorial featuring some band dude or other, among others Lemmy and Buzzo (the latter shoot I actually got to witness firsthand, but that's a story for another time). Peter was the only one I saw who was willing to appear nude, with two girls, no less.
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Type O was a guilty pleasure sort of band. Total B-movie kitsch stuff. But yeah, they were a good live band and the Sabbath-esque grooves were pretty hard to deny at times.
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Jack Herer died.
bummer.
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whoah.
Body Count is psyched, yo.
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ice tea is a cop now, so im not sure if he is sad or happy.
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Man, that's too bad about Jack Herer. Definitely smokin' a bowl for that guy. The Emperor Wears No Clothes was a really big deal to me when I read it for the first time when I was a kid.
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If only it had any relevance today...BAM now that's sarcasm.
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RIP Burch Pharmacy. I hope your shell fares better than that Hollywood Video or Muddy Paws Cheesecake.
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Burch Pharmacy is having a 50% off sale. Stock up on meds & household items while they last. (I bought all the cat litter they had left.)
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i got all the dilaudid they had in stock for HALF OFF! SWEET!
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And voice actor Allan Swift.
Dammit, i look at Cartoon Brew and everyone dies.
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Some Qaeda leaders in Iraq.
DEAD.
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Guru. Sad.
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Ernie Harwell, 92
One of the best radio voices I've ever heard, and by all accounts, a wonderful man.
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Ernie was so very much the best.
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the neighbor a block away committed suicide probably. had his childhood home sold to the nursing home and lost his job. just a guy. still a shitty, not uncommon, story.
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also hello wtf. ice tea? sers? i m embarrassed. ice t. jeesh.
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rip sad neighbor.
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oh dang. I love frazetta.
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such BAAAAAAABES, my lord.
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popular heavy metal band Molly Hatchet?
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ARGH! Makes me wanna holla!
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Ahh Frazetta...RIP you were something else. The documentary about him (is it called Painting With Fire?) is pretty interesting
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That's the one! I've been wanting to see it but Netflix hasn't got it. Time to check the library...
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Oh wait...Netflix does have it, but listed as just Frazetta. Added it to my queue.
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The babes are UNREAL.
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Huh, instead of trying to block the oncoming blow, shouldn't the down low guy be stabbing the other guy in the sternum?
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Yeah but dude it looks awesome
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I just heard about Frazetta.
RIP dogg.
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Glenn shed a black tear today.
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Sucks. Franzetta produced so many iconic images and characters from my childhood as a budding nerd.
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Martin Gardner, skeptic and puzzle-master supreme. Sigh.
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Arakawa, artist who tried to halt aging, fails miserably.
This is fascinating, though:
Their most recent work, a house on Long Island, had a steeply sloped floor that threatened to send visitors hurtling into its kitchen. Called Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa), it featured more than three dozen paint colors; level changes meant to induce the sensation of being in two places at once; windows that seemed too high or too low; oddly angled light switches and outlets; and an absence of doors that would have permitted occupants even a modicum of privacy.
All of it was meant, the couple explained, to lead its users into a perpetually “tentative” relationship with their surroundings, and thereby keep them young.
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Art Linkletter made it to 97.
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John Wooden, 99.
Insert Bill Walton imitation here, blah blah greatest ever blah.
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Orbit should change his/her name to Obit.
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Marvin Isley, 56.
Bassist Marvin joined for the 1970s 3+3 incarnation of the Isley Brothers. A formative record for young Boris, to say the least.
<img src="
http://www.midnightfunkassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/isleybrothe_33180gram_101b.jpg">
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Country star & sausage magnate Jimmy Dean, 81 years old.
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This is my great-aunt Clara. Shared because it's a great obit and she was pretty awesome.
Clara Frances Mines, 98, of Richmond, formerly of Sedalia, died Friday, July 16, 2010 at Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond.
She was born October 8, 1911, in Cooper County, a daughter of Herbert Joseph and Helena Rose (Weber) Hoff. On June 3, 1933, in Sedalia, she married Harry Edward Mines who preceded her in death on August 2, 1958.
Clara was a 1929 graduate of Smith Cotton High School. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church. She worked at Lyle's Cleaners for years. Clara was a vivacious woman and enjoyed life to the fullest. She enjoyed cooking big meals for her family and was affectionately known to them as "Old Grandma". She took in ironing as a hobby and also did alterations. She enjoyed a beer every day. She loved birds, butterflies, bells, flowers and angels, and had collections of all these things. She loved to dance, do crossword puzzles and tell jokes. One of her favorite sayings was "I was born a Catholic and a Democrat".
She is survived by a daughter, Sharon Richards, and her husband, Dean, of Richmond; five grandchildren, Joel Richards, Kristy Richards and Jill Richards, all of Richmond, and Chris McGuire and Diane McGuire, both of Hardin; four great-grandchildren, Justin Richards, "her ray of sunshine", Jared Richards, "her baby", Brianne McGuire, "her only great granddaughter", and Stevan McGuire, "her quiet one"; and several nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by three sisters, Gertrude Haller, Cecilia Gammon [my mom's mom -Ed.] and Ann Jackson; and a brother, Herman Hoff.
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You just left your shirts on her back porch in the morning and they'd be ironed and hanging there later.
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I collect obits like that and am filling a scrapbook.
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I love it. I hope someday I'm lucky enough to have lived an awesome life that deserves an obit like that.
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R.I.P. Melvin Bliss, performer of "Synthetic Substitution," which turned into the one of the most-sampled hip-hop drum breaks of all time.
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Better watch your blindside Jesus, Jack Tatum is in your backfield.
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gARi1MIyPRc"Destroying Vikings WR Sammy White</a>
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Ouch on John Callahan. I have his book, "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot." It's weird, I just looked him up on Wikipeida about 2 months ago just to see if he was still around.
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Happened a few days ago but, I just heard about it last night, <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=61337">Willem Breuker</i> Dutch saxophonist, foudning member of the Instant Composer Pool Orchestra, played w/ Globe Unity and Brotzmann (he's on Machine Gun), made a zillion records w/ his own groups in the 80s/90s
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The founder of Aldi/Trader Joe's died. I guess he was in the Wehrmacht in WWII.
I imagine that might ruffle some feathers among the "Boycott Whole Foods because John Mackey opposes Obamacare" crowd.
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Time to go back and re-read Derf's interview with Mark Prindle. Pretty entertaining.
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Mitch Miller, the inventor of the "greatest hits" album also passed.
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Nicely summed up, chance.
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Tony Judt, critic of postwar French intellectuals and left-wing ideologues, and proponent of single-state Middle East solution. RIP.
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<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/189981"> Catfish Collins</i>
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Torbjörn Abelli, bassist of Träd, Gräs och Stenar, Pärson Sound, et al. RIP. Glad I got to see you play.
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bummer.
Kaspar Hauser is the jam.
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Aw man, RIP Torbjörn Abelli (also SO glad I got to see these guys), and RIP Bruno S.
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Giant hay bale kills former ELO cellist
(Reuters) - A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.
Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.
He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.
Police said they used photographs and YouTube footage to identify Edwards and are investigating whether the bale may have fallen from a tractor working on farmland near the road.
Edwards, who played with the band between 1972 and 1975, is believed to have swerved into another vehicle as the bale crushed his cab.
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comedian Robert Schimmel died.
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Dang. I remember him being funny.
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fruit&flowers
9/04/10 4:44 PM
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RIP, noah howard
fuck, I missed this :( I'll have to have my own little tribute one of these nights.
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his 'patterns' is one of my favorite *cough* 'free jazz' lps.
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First ELO, now LFO...I smell a conspiracy.
RIP Rich Cronin, LFO lead singer
Here's hoping your heaven is one big Abercrombie & Fitch store filled with fine women.
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Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonets
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Michael Schenker, keep your head down.
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Edwin Newman died last month but it was just announced a couple days ago. I can't help but think of the My Fair Lady sketch he did with Joe Piscipo on Saturday Night Live back in the 80's.
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We're running out of genuine journalists.
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i could imagine that perhaps those skynyrd boys were some hopped up drunken little shits in high school, just a guess
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Hahaha! Yeah, but I've met a fair number of fucknut coaches and gym teachers, too.
Longhairs v. jocks forever.
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i always thought if a gym teacher was going to inspire a band name it'd the The Mustard Cutters.
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Arthur Penn. Directed Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, among others.
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Whoa... Greg Giraldo. I heard he OD-ed, but didn't think he died. That dude was super funny. I loved his bits on the CC Roasts.
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Boston Straaaaangler
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Prominent English moral philosopher Philippa Foot.
Can't say I've read a lot of her work, but I did write two short papers on her "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives." That's a good one. R.I.P.
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The Solomon Burke chapter in Peter Guralnick's "Sweet Soul Music" is one the most entertaining music-related reads out there. Definitely a unique character.
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Selling sandwiches at his own shows to make extra money. I have always thought of him as the black mr. tears
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mr. tears isn't black?
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I'm pronouncing it "teers". You probably mean mr "tares".
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Aw. As if Jive wasn't a dying language enough already.
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boo
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: (
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Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse.
3rd grader Orbit sheds a single tear for the man who showed him a world he never knew existed. A woods porn staple.
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Watch out for those woods porn staples. Tetanus shots are no fun.
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he's on Ascension, right? I bet google could answer that...
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he is!
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also on shepp's fire music...
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haha, if I'd actually read the npr article...
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Damn I hadn't gears about Ari Up.
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Drag about Ari Up. I've always liked that stage name too.
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I can honestly say that I'm truly saddened by the passing of Marion Brown, Air Up and Bob Guccione...that is a seriously influential trio
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RIP to our family cat. She isn't actually dead, but she gets put to sleep tomorrow. She's like 20 years old. None of us actually remember when we got her its been so long. I dug the hole under the birch tree this afternoon. It was the hardest fucking thing. Now I know why we have other people dig human graves. It fucking sucks.
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Sorry Prince Lumber, I know how that feels, have had to do it twice. It just plain sucks even if you tell yourself all the reasons that it's time for the end. Buried both of mine mine out by the bike trail.
I love the Marion Brown stuff I've heard. RIP Mr. brown.
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Alex Anderson, creator of Bullwinkle.
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Shit.
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GREGORY ISAACS? FUUUUUUUCK!
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Dino De Laurentiis, aged 91
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aw, man, Gorecki was a lion.
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At least he has his funeral music already picked out.
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love me some Gorecki
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RIP J.P. Toulon, one of the kids from Old Skull.
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whoa!
i remember seeing old skull opening for screaming trees and firehose, in '88 at wally gators in madison.
r.i.p.
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I just found the first Old Skull LP at Half Price Books a couple months ago
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i'm going to listen to the Scharpling and Wurster 'old skull' call in respect.
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this kind of freaks me out....rest in peace
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no way, adam! that's a score.
you bought it, right?
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i sure did
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ooof. heroin is still really crappy.
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RIP
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i actually had to work their 2nd album CIA Drug Fest to radio and retail as part of my job....
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That's a funny concept to me - trying to "work" Old Skull. I can't imagine any success with radio execs.
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JP was one of the little mohawed kids who was always smoking, swearing, and skating in that
little concrete "park" next to the private dorms in Madison. I wonder if he got any taller.
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Okay, have confirmed he did get taller. RIP Mr. Toulon.
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the promo sticker for radio was "smells like pre-teen spirit"
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Man, that is a bummer.
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just heard that Leslie Nielsen has died at 84
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WHAT!!!!
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Surely you can't be serious??
(Sorry, had to be done.)
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Just saw this now but Hugh Prather died at age 72 back on November 21st. This guy's books I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me and Notes to Myself had a big effect on me at a really crucial time some years back. It's really bumming me out to think that such a unique, searching mind no longer exists.
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Irvin Kershner, director of Empire Strikes Back, SeaQuest DSV and Robocop 2.
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Oddly enough, the obits I've seen have neglected to mention Seaquest.
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Roy Scheider should have had such luck.
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Mother fucking dolphins up in that shit, too!
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Great drummer ;_;
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Enjoy a cup of Lipton Tea in his memory, you rascal.
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Turn out the lights...
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Elizabeth Edwards, one day after stopping treatment.
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Gross. I just read this on Yahoo! News... at the bottom of the article, it said "Related Items: Tom Brady Balding Rumors".
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You know, Carducci can write a fucking obit like nobody's business, really.
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Serious bummer.
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There is a new greatest living pitcher because Bob Feller passed away today.
Take a trip out to Van Meter, Iowa where you'll find the Bob Feller museum. It's pretty amazing.
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I have an autographed photo of myself with Bob Feller from when I was a little kid! He was very personable if I remember right. He seemed extremely old, even back then though - 92!
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Hmm, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this but we are gearing up for our annual homeless memorial service tonight and I just peeped this year's list. There are many folks that I know who pass away during each year but I always spy one or two on the list that I hadn't heard about yet and this year is no exception. RIP Rogelio, Joe, and Clemente. There are folks that remember you.
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Steve Landesberg, 65, SHIT. The Dietrich Years of Barney Miller were the golden ones, especially the Jack Soo/Yemana cusp.
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Please watch that second link, a short youtube clip.
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Thanks for posting that, boris. I'm really about to show my age by saying that I remember know that guy only as Dr. Myron Finkelstein on Head Case. He's awfully hilarious in that role as well.
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What network is/was Head Case?
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The Netflix Watch Instantly Network
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Thank you.
FUCK
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D. Boon died 25 years ago today. RIP.
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RIP.
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Joe Strummer, 8 years ago.
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Teena Marie. :(
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Oh wow.
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Geez. She couldn't have been 60, even.
Rae, that is completely heartbreaking.
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she was 54.
yikes
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her vocal on "Fire & Desire" with Rick James is the bee's knees.
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I was going to make a comment about her and Rick singing a duet in the afterlife, but didn't want to be crass.
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Thanks for posting that, sharyn. I missed some of those throughout the year. I still feel a little sick about Kate McGarrigle passing for some reason... I didn't know it would affect me so much.
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Yeah, she was fairly young and clear-cell sarcoma sounds like an incredibly awful way to go.
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Shiiiiiiiiit that is rough. thanks for posting bunsy.
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Thanks to dick wolf and maggotstatues for turning me on to Boney M. When I still had my car, there were many drives listening to Love For Sale over and over.
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Watching a "Love for Sale" video now. Such shiny sparkly fabulous costumes!
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Also dead, as of today: musicscene.org.
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maggotstatues just found out that Bobby Farrell died on the same day in the same city as Rasputin....WEIRD.
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Saaaaad. I enjoyed many movies he was in.
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bummer. great actor.
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Oh no. He was on screen like three minutes in The Town and still loomed over the whole thing.
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Now we may never find out who Keyser Soze is.
No mention of Alien 3 in that BBC article?
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boris parsley
1/03/11 9:44 AM Oh no. He was on screen like three minutes in The Town and still loomed over the whole thing.
No kidding. Rest in Piece Mr Postlethwaite
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I mean Peace, christ...
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Orbit,
He worked steadily, taking small roles in Last of the Mohicans, Alien 3 and Franco Zefferelli's Hamlet, before landing the career-changing role of Giuseppe Conlon in the 1993 film In The Name Of The Father.
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oops. Those British news reports are so staid and dull, who can read all the way through?
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(I thought about starting a separate thread for that one, given the unique role one could say he's played in a corner of Twin Cities history).
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Wow, no kidding.
That man had a hectic last few years.
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Awww, man. Peter Yates. Directed Breaking Away... probably the best cycling movie ever.
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He also directed KRULL.
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Sargent Shriver.
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Dude, that General Vang Pao was a fucking character. I caught an article about that coup attempt when he got busted.
His reputation was deeply stained, however, when federal agents arrested him and 10 others in June 2007 for allegedly planning to buy about $10 million in illegal weapons for a violent, anti-Communist coup in the Laotian capital of Vientiane.
His reputation was largely stained?? You don't get to talk shit until you're planning a fucking coup at the age of 80.
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yeah mick karn was sweet japan is one of my favorite bands ever. especially on gentleman take polaroids and quiet life
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Nice write up on Sargent Shriver, by Bob Herbert.
"He was the founding director of the Peace Corps, the signature success of Kennedy’s New Frontier. He founded Head Start, created the Job Corps and Legal Services for the Poor, and gave us Volunteers in Service to America, which was the domestic version of the Peace Corps. He served as president and chairman of the Special Olympics, which was founded by Eunice Shriver. Indefatigable and unrepentantly idealistic, Mr. Shriver may have directly affected more people in a positive way than any American since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
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Apparently Jack LaLanne was still alive. Was.
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He must have figured he sounded like a guy who should have an ant farm.
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He's moved on to worm farming.
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God's getting the butter ready.
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You've been waiting 39 years to say that, haven't you?
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I'm only thirty.
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Gary Moore died in his sleep this morning, aged 58.
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Woodie Fryman former cubs, expos, tigers passed away at 70
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sorry, I miss amh's thread. Tura makes me feel alright about being above a C.
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Lena Nyman of I Am Curious (Yellow), Autumn Sonata, and (at least as significant to me) Ronia, the Robber's Daughter fame.
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Wow, Gary Moore. I had a couple of his records way back in high school.
And then he became a blooze-man.
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Brian Jacques, 71. I loved the shit out the Redwall books when I was a kid. I tried to revisit them a couple of years ago and they were nearly unreadable, but still, thanks for captivating my elementary-aged imagination. The idea of an epic fantasy series about Christian Knights who are also field mice still sounds like a good one.
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Bummer about Mr. Jacques. Loved him as a kid.
In other news, check out this headline from today: Woman dies after buttocks injection at Pa. hotel
Seriously.
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Weird. Just found my copy of "Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales" by Brian Jacques and realized it was signed, "To Maria". Neat.
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Man, I just saw that about Brian Jaques as well. I loved him as a kid. He came to Iowa once to give a reading and I made my Mom drive me to Iowa City so I could have him sign every single one of my books. His accent was so thick I could understand almost nothing of what he said - he was a really sweet guy though
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He had a good life. And he was Uncle Leo. Godspeed.
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Nice words from Tim Skyscraper:
Sitting here sipping a Bogle Pinot Noir and thinking of Patty Bogle, founder of Bogle Vineyards,
who passed away last Friday after a bout with Leukemia. I never had the pleasure of meeting her,
but I've enjoyed a lot of Bogle wines. The Bogle family has probably made as many great $10
California wines as any other company over the past 20 years, and they never sold out.
NYT obituary
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Rick Kulwicki, guitarist from The Fluid.
Never saw them, but I always heard about what an awesome live band they were. Also reputed to be very nice people.
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If any of you know Diane Izzo, from Chicago, she is about to pass. She's had health trouble
and cancer in her brain over the years. Wonderful person, great spooky voice. Rest in peace.
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Gah, sucks about McDuffie. DC is putting out a new Xombi series next month, looks kinda cool.
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Comedian Mike Destefano dies of a heart attack yesterday
I just listened to one of his stand up bits on Marc Maron's show and really enjoyed his interview with Marc Maron. Do yourself a favor and give it a listen. The dude is intense. He also has a great comedy CD out on Stand Up! records. He was HIV positive but I guess he died of a heart attack.
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Jesus, sad. Yeah his story as told to Maron is super impressive.
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Owsley was still alive? Huh.
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Jazz legend Joe Morello, 82. His solo on "Take Five" introduced me to the concept of limb independence. I didn't know he was still alive and didn't think he was that young.
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I kow that solo. I wouldn't have thought he was still alive either. Same with Owsley. Except for the soloing part.
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Owsley is still soloing man
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....with Mike Starr
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Ferlin Husky, 85.
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Oh man, Ruth Adams. :(
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Baby Ruthie RIP
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One last thing -
Famous polar bear Knut was found dead this AM. Left a suicidenote saying he couldn't bear the shame now that GlobalWarming has fallen apart. about 3 hours ago via web Retweeted by 100+ people
DennisDMZ
Dennis Miller
When is this piece of shit going to die, anyway?
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Wow, Ruth. We got engaged in that very Polka Bar, while Ruth and her Most Dangerous played.
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Ruth Adams, RIP. It'll be pretty different in
there without you & Lou Snyder.
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Whoa.
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Zoogz Rift!
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I was coming here to post that. I was a nerdy enough kid that I thought of her as a role model when she was Mondale's running mate in 1984.
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she is a role model!
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yeah, nerd
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neight
3/26/11 1:54 PM
she is a role model!
I know! But I was sort of a weird 10 year old, clipping out political cartoons from the newspaper and watching Frontline.
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Thank you for that link RQOTM.
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Yes, Lula Cortes.
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I've only heard Paebiru, but that record is seriously awesome.
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posted 3/23, sucker
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Gah!
SIDNEY LUMET
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May he get to heaven 10 minutes before God sees Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
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Shame.
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I felt bad about that right after I posted it. I do truly admire the dude. That movie was bad, though.
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It was at least life-affirming in the way Rescue Me makes me glad I'm not Irish.
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aw man, RIP billy bang
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"I don't usually talk about this next thing," he says after a moment. "It makes me look like one of those religious nuts who sees Jesus's face on a tree trunk."
Bang pauses again. "It's just kind of hard to believe."
He begins another sentence, lets it trail off. He sighs, and then dives in.
"So, one day, I'm supposed to go into this pawnshop -- it's in Baltimore -- to buy a gun so we could do a bank thing we'd been talking about. I get inside and I see this violin hanging there in the corner and -- here's the part that's hard to believe -- I hear it calling to me. It's not saying anything, not words or anything, it's just like the violin wants my attention.
"So I ask the shopkeeper how much for the violin and when he says 30 bucks, I bought it instead of a gun.
"When I got back out to the car, the guys were very pissed off at me. They thought I'd lost my mind. They were thinking that I'd been in Vietnam and I might snap so they left me alone all the way home to the Bronx. But I never did the bank thing with them. One of them got killed and another one got shot outside the bank.
"I wasn't there because of the violin. It saved my life."
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Wow
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That story is incredible.
This is from an article about how the director of the Berlin Zoo wants to have Knut the polar bear stuffed and put on display:
“I don’t want to see him stuffed,” said Triste Dittrich, her eyes moist as she passed around color snapshots of Knut, as if handing out photos of grandchildren. “I want him to live on in my head as he was before, when he was alive.”
Doris Webb sat on the next bench, her arms crossed against an afternoon chill and a reporter’s question. “Are you going to make fun of us, too?” she asked, her Knut button proudly pinned to her chest.
“There are a lot of people who say, ‘How can you be so upset when so many people have died in Japan?’ What do you know about how I feel about what happened in Japan? I’m grieving about a very special bear.”
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Tim Hetherington, photojournalist and director of Restrepo
Chris Hondros: Pulitzer prize winning war photographer
Both killed today in Libya while covering the protests
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the bass player from tv on the radio died?
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yep :(
http://www.tvontheradio.com/splash/
We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer. Gerard passed away the morning of April 20th, 2011. We will miss him terribly.
The following shows will be cancelled:
April 20 St. Andrew Halls, Detroit MI
April 22 Metro, Chicago IL
April 23 First Ave, Minneapolis MN
April 24 First Ave, Minneapolis MN
April 26 Ogden, Denver CO
There will be more information as it becomes available.
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Tim Hetherington, photojournalist and director of Restrepo
Chris Hondros: Pulitzer prize winning war photographer
Yikes.
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Oh shit. I've posted about my love for Tim Hetherington here before.
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Max Mathews, Father of Computer Music
Mr. Mathews wrote the first program to make it possible for a computer to synthesize sound and play it back. He also developed several generations of computer-music software and electronic instruments and devices.
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X-Ray Spex vocalist Poly Styrene
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Phoebe Snow.
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Good one.
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^^ NSFW
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bela lugosi's dead
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damn, just heard about Cohen. Maybe coolest bohemian ever? I was digging his art on the cover of this Spirit album just last weeK:
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<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Boogaard">Derek Boogaard, what?</a>
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yeah it'll be interesting to see what happened to him...
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/m-bone-dead-teach-me-how-to-dougie-rapper-shot_n_862397.html>Teach Me How To Dougie</a>
Super sad. Kid was only 22.
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http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/
Macho Man Randy Savage killed in car crash.
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WHAAAAAAAT. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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ohhhhhh yeahhhhhhh nooooooooooo
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Had a heart attack while driving, crashed into a tree.
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FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
buying a case of slim jims asap
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Heart attack at 58? Might want to hold off on those meaty snacks.
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Whoa!
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I hope they play Macho Man at his funeral.
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Joseph Brooks, composer of "You Light Up My Life", awaiting trial for multiple rapes, apparently kills self with helium.
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Ms Carrington was great.
I could not be more annoyed that the first sentence seems to imply that at least half the reason she's included in the NYT obituaries is that she fucked Max Ernst.
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yeah that's TOTALLY lame. her paintings are awesome.
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that ernst connection is what I remember being printed in art history books, too.
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my brain isn't firing, exactly -- what I meant to say is that my art history books seemed to emphasize that relationship more than her actual work... or it could be that my memory is sexist.
her paintings are great. spectacular in person, too.
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Also her sculptures and short stories!
I stayed in the neighborhood in Mexico City where she lived. Was hoping for a sighting but nope
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Jeff Conaway (Taxi, Babylon 5), age 60.
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Sad. He was also in Grease! I had such a crush on him when I was a kid.
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Gil Scott-Heron RIP
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Fuckkkkk. Deserves his own thread.
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You're kidding me.
Swagatha Christie
5/27/11 9:39 PM
Fuckkkkk. Deserves his own thread.
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After looking up more stuff about Lenora almost every thing is ex lover of max ernst So Stupid
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian
My apologies to the trolls, you're just going to have to figure it out on your own.
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dang.
the Kevorkian movie HBO did w. Pacino was great.
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Kevorkian did great things. Sad day.
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^ yup. The general public is afraid of death, go figure.
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And there goes James Arness.
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Aw, #1 bath pastime with the boys growing up.
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Trouble, the millionaire maltese
As often happens, I started reading this story thinking it would only have the aspect of lighthearted absurdity and ended it realizing that it's actually a little more nuanced (namely in regard to how Helmsley's executors have successfully diverted much of the inheritance that she intended to be donated to prevention of animal cruelty organizations).
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SETH PUTNAM: You're dead and that is gay.
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SETH PUTNAM: I sent a bouquet of swastikas to your mom on the anniversary of your funeral.
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"I want to remind everyone that no matter how outrageous and controversial his musical career has been, Seth was still a human being"
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SETH PUTNAM:TEARS IN HEAVEN(A Biography)
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It's been a pretty rough week for Homophobia, amirite?
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cock lobster, do you agree with that statement? Honestly? I love anal cunt but do you really think seth putnam wants his "memory" to be treated like a human being. I have sucked guys' dick before but I find that idea really really gay on a level wherein I just texted my mom about how she is right and cirque du soleil is really "out there" and "progressive."
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I didn't really text my mom because she is also dead and gay but I just meant in a reality wherein that would happen is the one in which that statement makes sense.
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I'm sure dude would have no problem at all with people making fun of his death.
And anyone who puts "Ha Ha" on a picture of the Jewish Holocaust better be able to fucking deal.
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HAHALACAUST.
Is what a clever guy'd a done with that.
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O.
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"I'm hoping that the Internet will remember that."
RIP!
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(Wild Man Fischer)
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when i was 17 and going to orientation for college they went around the room and said "whats in your cd player right now, what's your major, and what dorm are you living in" and i said anal cunt and no one talked to me ever again in college.
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not even ur ta
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Bart Hazlett, co-owner of Maverick's, and two of his children killed in a head-on crash on highway 8. Curtiss A is reminiscing tonight on the WCCO tv coverage. Apparently Bart played in bands some years ago.
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BUCK Hazlett-was a great drummer and remarkable person-he played with Curt-TIMBUKTU-and alot of other TC bands-
Also Tim Alexander of Radio for Teens, The Vendettas and Fab's Invisible College
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Whoa, what about Tim Alexander now?
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He died-I don't know specifics
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Just went and found out elsewhere. Cancer, which is what I kind of assumed; he survived a bout back around 1993-94. I worked with him for a couple of years shortly after that - great guy. RIP Tim.
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dammit! it's really good too.
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The news about Buck Hazlett and his two children is devastating. no words.
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sax player for e street band, apparently
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gif werks!
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Ryan Dunn of Jackass fame died in a car crash this morning, I guess?
RIP :(
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Lame, I really liked him on Jackass
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oh dang i liked that guy
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It's weird to see stuff like that picture on his Twitter with "10 hours ago" under it. The internet is weird.
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Yeah, too bad, but not really that surprising. Thanks for the laughs
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ooof. wikipedia says he was going 110 and there was an unidentified occupant in the car and the accident was sort of....gruesome.
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the fox affiliate in philly showed photos of the wreck the tow-truck driver snapped.
the wreckage is crazy and in no way even remotely resembles a car.
looks like it burnt, too.
RIP
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I predict an open casket.
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Peter Falk, 83.
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:(
I will be watching lots of Columbo this weekend.
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I suppose Gene Colan should be mentioned here too.
Sucks, wanted to meet that guy. He was still doing conventions as of a couple years ago.
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so sad
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NO! Sad.
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aw man, that bums me out.
RIP Falk.
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(it should have been kevin pollack, amirite? lol)
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Orbit
6/24/11 1:55 PM Better yet, Wings Of Desire.
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No more things, ma'am.
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Kevin Pollak is aving his surrogate death for either William Shatner or Jeff Speakman.
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oh damn that suxx
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"No, really, we got hacked! Damn hackers! Sorry that you were offended".
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Shit. I just saw the posts about Tim Alexander. He was a really nice guy. R.I.P.
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Ahhh, boo. Mr. Twombly was one of my favorites.
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Shit. Cy Twombly was one of my favorites, too.
This is really bumming me out.
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Betty Ford made it to 93.
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Oh, I am so sad about Bruno S! I loved him in Kaspar Hauser. That's still one of my favorite movies to watch when I'm sad. The story is, in spite of its sadness and angst, strangely uplifting. I need to watch it again soon.
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I knew Tim Alexander. Spoke to him last in October 2010, and had some e-mail contact with him in the months following. Hell of a guy, and I will miss him. He was really encouraging in regard to the stuff I'd been working on, musically speaking, in the last year or so.
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img src="http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af166/MacWriter/Decorated%20images/tapa.jpg">
RIP, facundo cabral
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Oh god, I was just listening to something about his murder yesterday. Guess he didn't get mentioned here until now.
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whoa, total fucking mind meld!!
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heard a portion of the tribute to him on kfai today (during corazon latino)
what I know of his music (very little) is astounding, love it. really sad story...
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RIP Rob Grill, singer for the underrated Grass Roots
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R.I.P Fonce Mizell
R.I.P Jerry Ragovoy
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Oh man.
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Whoa, "Compared to What" is one of the greats. I didn't know that it wasn't a McCann original. RIP, guy.
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Also, pitpat's car. RIP
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ehhh, fuck that car. it was falling apart and nickle-&-diming me for a while.
I WILL BATHE IN IT'S BLOOD
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Crikey! I worked at GAMCO # 16 at Signal Hills Mall, 1984-85. Never met Ira. I wish I could have worked at the Big Store that was off 494 somewhere. I was a classical music geek then, and they had a BIG classical department.
I was a Teenage Bassoonist, what can I say?
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Dang, I would have been frequenting SHM as a 3rd grader while you worked there! Crazy. That was the cool mall that my older sister got to go to sometimes.
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Nooooooooooo Hightower!!!!! :(
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pitpat
8/03/11 6:54 PM
ehhh, fuck that car. it was falling apart and nick-&-eddieing me for a while.
I WILL BATHE IN IT'S BLOOD
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Hightower!
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@ teddyruxpin -- if you ever went into that GAM store at SHM and Lou Reed was playing -- usually Transformer, but New Sensations ALMOST as often as Transformer -- that would have been me behind the register. I was a classical geek with a rock 'n roll heart. ;-)
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^^^I'd missed this! hopefully more of his recent stuff (released on cdr?) will be compiled and released.
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That's his track. First thing I ever (unknowingly) heard by him.
Also, The Wire made an article from '06 on him available to enjoy on the internet. What a wonderful, eccentric man.
“Then I bought myself a real player piano. It was really expensive but I was so horny to have it. I made a lot of compositions for piano without any idea of how to actually play it and I know Glenn Gould would be crying if he could hear me. He was upset because whatever he tried to compose he always got lost in his own head. He was paralysed by technique. Not me! I thought to myself, ‘You shit, here you are composing for the piano, you should print this music out, and maybe someone could play your compositions.’
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Oddly enough, a childhood best friend - who I have little in common with yet still see now and again - had become really close with the members of Warrant. He was a webmaster and graphic designer for Columbia Records and did their web site for years. He's way bummed out today. Dude.
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Aw, goodbye little buddy.
One time last summer I was in there in the morning, right after they opened; pretty much the first thing I saw was Zaireeka trotting across the cd racks at me, chirping away. Every store should have a cat greeter.
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That cat was such an absolute sweetheart. So sad to hear this.
That store is one of the best stores I have ever been in, and the personalities of the owners and this cat are/were a big part of that.
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Jerry Leiber, as well.
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WWII spy Nancy Wake
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On the night of 29–30 April 1944 she was parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between London and the local maquis group headed by Captain Henri Tardivat. Upon discovering her tangled in a tree, Captain Tardivat greeted her, remarking "I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year," to which she replied, “Don’t give me that French shit.
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Her French companions, especially Henri Tardivat, praised her fighting spirit, amply demonstrated when she killed an SS sentry with her bare hands to prevent him raising the alarm during a raid.
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^ TOTAL badass.
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Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeriously.
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i like that a bunch of us just sprinted to facebook to tell the world how much ass she kicked.
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Australia: Oh hey here's a medal
Nancy: Oh hai Australia go fuck yourself
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someone get Kate Beaton on that stat
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Today's women are too concerned with weddings and yoga and not enough with killing SS sentries with their bare hands.
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I wonder what it would of been like to make love to her.
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Today's women are too concerned with weddings and yoga. . .
Have you forgotten the Tea Party mama grizzlies? They're really kind of her spiritual daughters, when you think about it.
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I'm a little surprised I never saw any news obits for her given what a character and looker she was. I happened to stumble across her wiki page as I was reading the about WWII occupied France and saw she just died earlier this month.
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How had I never heard of this woman before this? What a fine-looking badass!
Great line by warsawpactarmor, too. Hahaha!
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damn, she coulda been the model for the brit woman in the new Captain America
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Hard Rock Cafe MPLS...RIP
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haha
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George Kuchar
Damn.
This has not been a good year for old school experimental filmmakers.
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George Kuchar
Damn.
This has not been a good year for old school experimental filmmakers.
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just noticed this, crazy! ^
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Nooooooooo!!!!! Kuchars are a dying breed!!!!
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R.I.P. Cliff Robertson
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Jeff from WASTEOID.
fuck.
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Eleanor Mondale, brain cancer, 51.
And another senator's daughter, Kara Kennedy, heart attack, also 51.
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51 is the new 27
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joseph1
9/12/11 4:56 PM
Jeff from WASTEOID.
fuck.
Shit!! what happened?
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RIP America's Grandma
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R.E.M.
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A friend of mine and Rae's lost her mom suddenly and unexpectedly. It made me grateful I still have my mom and we still got time. My friend and her mom were really close and I was always kind of jealous that they had such a good relationship.
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Glacial
9/22/11 12:02 PM
Troy Davis.
Oh holy shit. I went to bed last night reading about the Supreme Court appeal and I did not think I'd wake up to read that. Seeing that name in this thread now really just stunned me.
I cannot stop thinking about the situation that rayna mentioned, either. Really hard couple of days.
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Jim Marshal RIP
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Ex-Vike Jim Marshall?
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not seeing anything online about the iron man Jim Marshall...
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March 2010? Now I'm really confused.
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you f scared me!!
cpt jim marshall is a an acquaintance whom i owe a call
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Absolutely Kosher Records
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Arch West, creator of Doritos.
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He's going to be buried with dorito chips. No joke.
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went to a sad but happy memorial in duluth. our coworkers mom died suddenly, probably of natural causes, in her sleep at 56. still trying to get my brain wrapped around that. that's not an age where you would expect that to happen. like at all. the memorial was great. lots of people having fun and talking about her and drinking. my coworker's sister, who i had never met was like "oh you are so and so from work, _____ always talks about you". i felt really good that i went and got to hang out with my friend. a couple times, around xmas or when i was havin a rough time, my coworker would bring me gifts and be like "oh i was talking to my mom about you and she wanted you to have these cookies she made" and stuff like that. she had requested a very non-religious ceremony, but i don't think the person doing the funeral really got it. it seems like it is reallly hard to find a non-religious officiant for things like this. like ever. same problem we had when my uncle died.
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Bert Jansch.
I had hoped to see him live one day but now never will.
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Fuck!
And I missed him opening for Neil Young a couple years ago.
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Whoa, terrible. I listen to his music weekly, if not daily. Brilliant guy.
I saw that opening set for Neil Young and it was incredible, but totally wasted on a huge room of middle-aged suburban couples talking through it while they loaded up on $8 beers. I was rapt from up in the balcony but the majority of the audience could not have been more indifferent.
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jeez, this is really sad news
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Yea, I feel very fortunate to have seen Bert open for Neil, and yes unfortunately the crowd was not attentive at all.
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seriously sad about jansch
what a musician he was
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I had never heard his music until today. True.
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jansch is/was a beast.
real talk.
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shit i love Bert Jansch
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Been listening to him all day since I saw the R.I.P.
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BERT NO!
I love his music and voice so much. So few could touch him on guitar.
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I had the same experience Rae described while Brian Wilson was performing Smile.
I have a serious weakness for British Folk from the 60s-70s.
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rae -- that song is amazing
just got a copy of 'birthday blues' a month ago, it's so beautiful
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Shoulda been zooey
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aw, man. bummer
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Crappy day for slightly off the map folk musicians. Somebody go check on the white Bobby Brown.
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Totally. These deaths usually come in threes...
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roar! fuck, this is horrible news....
I love that album, but would also recommend the 2nd album, 'with pleasure'
(I think white bobby brown is long gone, rq) (right??)
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He might be. Ok, somebody check on Robin Williamson instead.
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Steve Jobs just died? Is that right?
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'fraid so.
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That album is cray, sad day!
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Pretty sure the white Bobby Brown is still alive. Being mellow in Hawaii usually goes a long ways.
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my friend was saddened by her death yesterday
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Mr.Napier was in tons of things I loved but I still went straight to the same role N1CKS did.
headin into Eden, yaaaaay brother
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Original space hippy.
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Another Charles Napier fan here. I wasn't aware that he had recently written a memoir; now I have to seek it out. Hope his passing was a bit more peaceful than in Silence of the Lambs.
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DUKE!
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I was going to laugh then I saw it was from season 15.
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Gonna be hard to eat corn on the cob without any FUCKING TEETH.
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its "youre gonna look pretty funny eating ..."
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"Raiders owner Al Davis has died at 82 years old. No cause of death was released, but geez, do you really have to ask?"
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was actually a brilliant coach then owner decades ago
sad he became a caricature
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wormhole
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shared birthday with: stopthepresses, still life
NFL Network obit was really comprehensive.
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whoa Al Davis really looked like that?
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dennis_ritchie--;
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Siege vocalist Kevin Mahoney
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Qaddafi
I'm surprised it took this long.
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Yeah Black Ops how would you have done it.
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You wang, you know that's not what I meant.
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Wang is a term of endearment.
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I'm not convinced Qaddafi is dead. He's probably being moved to Lower Sussex or somewhere to live the rest of his life incognito as a shoe salesman or something.
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No, it's gas.
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whoa
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jeeeesh didn't they just play here like two days ago?
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last night
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I didn't do it!
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He seemed fine to me!
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He seemed fine to me!
Ditto, at least as far as anyone in GWAR could. He looked like he was pretty ripped
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Wow. I bet it was pills. Sad.
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Man, holy crap!
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Joe Frazier, 67.
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I thought of that when I heard he was really sick, but I just couldn't go there.
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he was the best. RIP
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Not the overweight lover! I always sorta liked him.
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I'm Howard Womack from Radio K's "By Any Means" and "Go Low". I've announced that I'm going up to St Cloud State on Thursday to do a 2 hour tribute for Ol' Dirty Bastard since this Sunday will be the 7 year anniversary of his death. But now that Heavy D has died today, I've talked to Derek Ehlert (Urban Invasion's host) and the station manager at KVSC, and now I will also be doing a tribute for Heavy D on thursday. 7pm til 10pm will be for Heavy D and 10pm til 12am will be for Ol' Dirty Bastard. Remember, this will be on KVSC, 88.1 FM of stream it on your iTunes account by clicking "Radio" in the upper left hand corner. Then click on "college/university" and then click on KVSC to hear it. I will still be doing "By Any Means" on Wednesday night on Radio K. After that, I'll travel up to St Cloud on Thursday.
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Even those ones with the dotted line trail showing Billy's travels?
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He was 89? But he was so raw and vital. Shocked.
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Totally missed this last summer...
Mike Waterson
Seriously bummed.
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The Baron was a childhood favorite. Good looking man, manicured or wigged.
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I was just re-watching Baron Munchausen LAST NIGHT!!
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I love the watersons! bright phoebus is sweet
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I am hearing that Too $hort passed away, can't verify tho....
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I wonder what people expect calling a dead person's phone.
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they were expecting Ant Banks to answer.
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Paul Motian
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Anne McCaffrey and Andrea True.
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Whoa, Anne McCaffrey died? I spent more time with her books than is probably cool to admit.
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Ah, too bad, one of my favorites. Not a man afraid to indulge his loonier ideas on screen.
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I hope he got to see The Devils on Blu Ray.
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Whoa random.
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is it true about patrice o'neal?!
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Yes, it is true. Major bummer. He was only 41.
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VOYTEK
2009-2011
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what
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Tracy Lawrence, Notary Public Who Blew The Whistle On Massive Robo-Signing Foreclosure Fraud, Found Dead
OF COURSE a 43 year old woman drops dead and there is no suspicion of foul play.
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Shit. I'm really sad that Voytek broke up. I heard all those guys hate each other now.
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Nah dude, Voytek didn't break up. They got too old and they died.
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wait huh? ha! my bro posting that voytek broke up at 2am?
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Jesus. Reichel, Russell and Patrice Oneal all in the same week? Happy Fucking Holidays.
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dj jazzy jeff :'(
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is that true, lilcrum?
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no
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whew. got kinda scurred there for a minute!
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hmm false alarm. sorry
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Alan Sues, 85. Someone check on Gary Owens.
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Aw, RIP wacky proto-Lynde Alan Sues. Just saw The Americanization of Emily a couple weeks ago, where he AND Judy Carne have bit parts.
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noooooo
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Hubert Sumlin was one of my favs...RIP
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Harry Morgan, aka Col. Potter. Age 96.
bummer. i fucking love M*A*S*H
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Jerry Robinson, creator of the Joker. :(
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Grinderman
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That's silly. Science is born anew with every discovery.
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Russell Hoban, 86.
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Christopher Hitchens is drinking whisky with the Devil. Or taking a dirt nap.
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Felt legitimately sad about Hitch dying. I hate it when really fascinating people die.
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I thought I heard Lovejoy lived?!
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Oh wow! I hadn't heard that part. Too tough to die, apparently.
Rumors of Lovejoy's demise something something.
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oh, man. that dude could blow like a hurricane.
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Cheetah, the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies. He was roughly 80 years old. Who would have guessed that Cheetah was still alive? I think you outlived them all. Perhaps it was because you were a dancer.
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former snl writer who co-wrote Waynes World comitted suicide two days ago.
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Marv Davidov, an iconic figure in the Minnesota peace movement .
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aw jeez. i would have never guessed his age. i have really good memories of being both really inspired by him and thoroughly annoyed :)
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me too zsa zsa. very inspiring person and equally maddening. ha!
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that crotchety old self-rightious fucker was a good dude
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Ohhh, Marv :(
He used to drive me nuts. "inspiring and equally maddening" is perfect.
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Jimmy Castor, funk legend, died today. :(
The Jimmy Castor Bunch is one of the best funk bands ever, I think they were somewhat popular in their day but seem to be mostly forgotten now. I couldn't even find anything about his death on google news, but it seems to have actually happened, twitter/facebook/etc are blowing up with it, and he's not famous enough right now to be the target of a hoax.
The world just got a little less funky
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I listen to Jimmy Castor constantly, pretty much the only thing I listen to in my car. Supersound-4-Lyfe.
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Dan Evins, founder of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store chain.
I know you ate there.
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motherfuck. those fried apples . . . goddamn.
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Wha... Jimmy Castor? Fuuuu.
<"a href=http://youtu.be/1k9-rH6Kovs">Jams.</a>
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Aw, we were just talking about him.... RIP, Frankie Lymon II. You outlived Frankie Lymon I by a long ways.
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Bill Janklow last week. Dude was governor most of the time I lived in SoDak.
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Dave Sink
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Awww Jimmy Castor. :( I still have the Troglodyte 45 from when I was a kid in Memphis.
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Etta James.
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Dave Sink meant a lot to so many people in the Omaha area in the 90's. Omaha was a pretty righteous place for awhile.
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Etta James? Noooooooo!
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:(
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Dooood! I never realized that Johnny Otis was Shuggie's dad! Woah...
So sad. RIP Johnny and Etta.
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQveDIcPJb4">etta<a/>
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Is it weird that there was already a statue of him while he was still coaching?
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Some guy on tv is saying he "died of a broken heart".
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Atrios11:50 AM
...if joepa died "of a broken heart" we should be clear about what broke it #gettingcaught
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Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema, whom some of you may remember as the bizarre con man who ended up in Afghanistan, running a 'private jail and torture center'.
In late 2001, he popped up in Afghanistan, claiming to be, variously, a humanitarian aid worker, CIA operative and hired advisor to the Northern Alliance forces who fought with U.S. troops against the Taliban.
He conned one Afghan warlord into believing that he was training some of the warlord’s men on behalf of the U.S. government, then instead rented their services to journalists who needed security details.
Several journalists were taken in by his offers of information and security, and he successfully used his fake covert operator act to woo at least a few female journalists, said Robert Young Pelton, author of “Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror.” The book includes a chapter on Idema that plays almost like comic relief amidst tales of mercenaries.
Eventually his play-acting in Afghanistan took a more serious turn than just hoodwinking Dan Rather or foisting fake Taliban training video on cable news producers.
At some point, he and a rag-tag band of followers he dubbed Task Force Saber 7, began kidnapping innocent Afghan “terror suspects” and torturing them, ostensibly to find the location of Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders.
In 2004, Afghan authorities arrested him and two American accomplices, Brent Bennett, another former soldier from Fayetteville, and Ed Caraballo, a freelance videographer.
In an Afghan court, Idema claimed that he had been operating with the support and knowledge of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other American officials.
U.S. and Afghan officials repeatedly said he had been operating on his own.
The trio was convicted of kidnapping and torture, and they were sent to Pul-e-Charkhi prison outside Kabul.
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Don Cornelius, founder and host of <a="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVyPAVBzRQ">Soul Train!</a>
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whew
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and Mike Fuckin' Kelley. Shit!
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man, mike kelley! I can't believe that. he was such a force.
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fruit&flowers
2/01/12 2:35 PM
man, mike kelley! I can't believe that. he was such a force.
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I can only hope a proper obituary is on the way, as this is just no good at all.
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This Kelly writeup by Jerry Saltz is better.
Super sad. I guess he'd been struggling not just with depression in general, but a deep dissatisfaction with having to become a "factory" in order to keep up with the demands of the international art market, rather than be able to work at his own pace without it being a huge production.
I guess his lady also broke up w/ him recently, too, which didn't help any.
:(
RIP, Mr. Kelly. Your work was savage, trashy genius. Destroy all mantras.
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Your work was savage, trashy genius.
Heartbreaking.
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geez, I learned this morning that brendan of negative guest list died yesterday at age 22.
I only knew him via email, but what a good & enthusiastic guy he was. always sad to lose a strong voice in underground culture. RIP.
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ben gazzara, RIP
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Got the email about Brendan late last night. Ended my two weeks of not drinking pretty quickly. So fucking sad, devastated to say the least. Rest in power my man, you will be greatly missed, fuck...
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Ben was great and was still working a ton. He played a lot of heavies but I remember him best in one of my earliest tv memories, starring as terminally ill (but non-symptomatic of course) Paul Bryan in the Route 66-like Run For Your Life.
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Love Ben G. That's really too bad.
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producer larry butler died january 24th
he had a few LPs of his own, but is most famous for working with kenny rogers & was from my hometown. RIP.
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Oh man. That was one formative influence.
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Richard LaValiere of Milwaukee's excellent Oil Tasters. Great weird band if you haven't heard them.
Bass, sax, drums.
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According to AP a monute ago, Whitney Houston is dead. Age 48 i think?
Thise poor fucking kids...
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Yep, it's all over CNN.
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holy shit
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Geez.
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No!
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o jeez.
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this is for some reason hitting me harder than amy winehouse
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I seriously feel so bad for her kids.
Something tells me Bobby Brown isn't going to be the strong rock they will no doubt need.
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I thought she only had 1 kid?
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and bobby brown's kids. depends on whether you believe in step-parents, i guess.
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You've met my step-parents. So what do you think.
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oh they are real
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too real :(
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Super real, in our fam. Even post divorce.
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I have a dead father and a real stepfather who I never use the term "stepfather" when I talk about him or think about him or introduce him to someone. Very real.
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Reality is, like, subjective, maannnnnn.
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RIP, Whitney. Your existence meant absolutely nothing to me
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ditto to that
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Way to ruin my Lady Di, jerks.
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Whitney Houston's death has awakened me to the fact that I could only name one Whitney Houston song, and that it's apparently a Dolly Parton song.
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u forgot im every woman lol
tippin 1 out 4 u whitney
i wanna dance w sumbody
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John Severin, comics legend. =(
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Faceman: I too, didn't know that was a Dolly Parton song.
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Gary "The Kid" Carter.
Doug will be pleased.
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Ahh bummer, I loved Gary Carter when I was kid
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Awww. Man, I liked that guy. He was responsible for getting the first Shaggs reissue on Rounder. Plus, a unique drummer, he had a really interesting feel, half swing, half rock, simultaneously.
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I had never heard of this photog but yeah, Colvin was definitely the bad-assest looking reporter pretty much ever. Its always sad when this happens but it does make me feel a little better about never realizing my dream of being a war photographer. Dangerous job!
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Very.
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My wonderful godfather, a legend in his own time, passed away last night. He was a science teacher in Anchorage for 30 some years, traveled to almost every continent as a freelance nature photographer, smoked a lot of pot, never wore underwear, and feared nothing. This is on the heels of my grandmother's death two months ago. Major bummer morning for me. Someone buy me a pre-noon drink, plz.
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sorry to hear that JI. Sounds like a dude I'd buddy with.
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My most sincere condolences, JI. Not enough people like that in this world.
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My condolences. Really sorry to hear that.
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So sorry to hear it JI. Sounds like he was a really neat guy.
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Oh man, what a great photo.
Croquet is always more fun when you've got your stone on.
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My parents and their core group of friends (all of whom were great potheads) had annual croquet "tourneys", often at my home in Michigan. They had a friend who played bagpipes, plus a lot of old naked dudes taking saunas.
I have a whole album of those photos on FB if you want to see more. Great shots of my folks, too.
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He had a pet boa constrictor named Julius Squeezer who eventually got loose in the wilds of Alaska. He was truly one of the great lovers of nature. I also remember picking morels with him, which we then took home and put on a homemade pizza.
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So sorry. Got unlimited bugs for you.
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*hugs
Goddamned auto text!
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hah bugs! aww. those are great photos, wow. sorry for your loss.
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I really truly thought the first photo that JI posted was a recent picture of my friends. That one dude looks like Tomb.
So sorry, JI.
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John Severin
I remember him from Cracked but I guess he was a founder of Mad and drew the Hulk and Sub Mariner and stuff.
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Whoops. Looks like I missed Bicorn's more timely post. My bad.
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My dad wrote this great piece about my godfather, Ollie. We should all have friends like this.
"Ollie had a bad heart valve replaced when he was young, something very risky at the time. He came through, but was told that he would never be able to be active. He went on to be an All-State football player, and of course, a ski instruct...or at Boyne and then on to Alaska. A few days ago he was in pain, went to the doc, then to the hospital. They replaced the valve, but he had a bad infection, and died. We still don't know all the details; however, as Susie [my mom] said, a light went out in this world when Ollie died. Of note, he taught us to ski, to bird watch, and the whole range of outdoor science. We photographed together, canoed, camped, skied, fished, mushroomed (Ollie the expert in wild edibles) did five Alaska raft trips together, and I could go on and on. He had just retired from teaching, and had great plans so we hear. His network reaches to many corners of the planet, and his former students went on to many successful pursuits. He was one of the most inspirational people I knew."
I need an Ollie.
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Jan Berenstain. Love dem bears.
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Davy Jones of the Monkees
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WHAAAAAAAT. MY MOM IS NOT GONNA BE HAPPY
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I loved the Berenstain Bears at the exact same time that I made my mom give me a haircut like davey Jones'. Coincidence?
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Oh no! What happened?
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whoa no idea. i loved watching the monkees show when i was a kid
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Heart attack at age 66.
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I see what you did there.
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There are people legitimately angry at me on Facebook right now.
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Legitimately stupid, you mean.
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I'm angry at you on MRMB.
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just heard about matthew st. germain. has anybody heard about funeral arrangements?
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Are you serious?
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i guess i should nip it in the bud and say i was just kidding. i thought it would be fun to throw a wrench into this thread, but i'm a sick motherfucker...
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Plus you aren't above a literal and non-sarcastic post on occasion.
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jesus christ
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rip jesu
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Jesus died? Again? Can he be a meta-zombie?
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i'm glad you noticed, clone. the love is palpable, isn't it? :-)
i was going to pay monosodium glutamate back for a spoof thread he ran about me getting shot by robbers at treehouse, but i reckon my morbid sense of humor is shared by few others and this coulda been a step too far. besides, the mrmb piranhas need little provocation to give the old boy the business.
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Rae ftw!
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I guess there's just one Beatle left.
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the second coming of msg? i could make a joke about the first and blow the mrmb rumor mill WIDE OPEN, but this is the new & improved, non-controversial heartfullofnapalm now.
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congrats. the first day is the hardest.
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like you'd know!
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KIDS
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This might be my favorite journalistic error ever. From the USA Today article:
"With an infectious smile and easy humor, the diminutive Briton played the Paul McCartney role in the Beatles-inspired quartet, which also included Peter Tosh, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith."
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Jah love
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Someone with photoshop skills please help me out here.
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I miss Peter
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Irie.
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at least dj has been reunited with his locker
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another pleasant valley BUMBACLOT
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I-man not ya steppin' stone
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praise jah, we're the monkees
and people say we monkey around
but we're too busy sipping from I chalice
to chant down babylon
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ahahaha rrrrrrright
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Andrew Beitbart....?!
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Huh, yeah I guess it's true. Not a nice guy, but I won't dance on his grave.
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I was just coming to post that - wonder if it's a hoax or some kind of publicity stunt.
If true, CYA you piece of shit.
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"Natural Causes".. aren't they all?
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fuck that turd
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Over at Faux, commenters are already talking about conspiracies. Obama has to be behind this somehow.
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Zom - not if it's "death by misadventure."
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Natural Misadventure. Is there nothing more natural than death? I think not.
Nice guy:
In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy's death, Breitbart called Kennedy a "villain", a "duplicitous bastard", a "prick" and "a special pile of human excrement."
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Wow. What a piece of shit.
Chances of drug overdose? 80% - at least.
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seriously, fuck this dude's rotting corpse.
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Addition by subtraction.
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A facebook friend posted this yesterday RE: Davy Jones
I thought she was kidding when she said Davy Jones died...then I saw her face...now I'm a bereaver.
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Not since Barbara Olson has a nation so mourned.
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I tried to find my LP of the stage version of The Point starring Mickey and Davy, but it must still be in Michigan. It's pretty incredible.
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For most people my age The Monkees seemed like the coolest thing ever seen on TV ever when it came on.
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I clicked on that MTV Ben Affleck / Jennifer Garner link. She's a decent actress, a total babe, but I've NEVER seen a picture of her where she looks like someone who would be pleasant to be married to.
Andrew Brietbart? I guess I just hope for him that he finds in the afterlife the what he sowed in the world. That should be punishment enough that I don't need to dance on his grave or wish him any greater ill than that.
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Wonkette, under the headline ANDREW BRIETBART DOPS DEAD:
American blog owner Andrew Breitbart is dead. He was 43 years old, and reportedly died of “natural causes” in Los Angeles early this morning. We knew Breitbart — “we,” meaning many of us who have written for Wonkette, including young Riley Waggaman, pictured above at left — and he was a pleasant enough goofball in person. Breitbart was also a talented writer of headlines (it really is an art!) who worked anonymously for many years as Matt Drudge’s assistant on the West Coast. What he is known for today is the vile collection of websites that includes “Big Government,” and his rambling, slurring appearances on broadcast media.
Breitbart leaves behind a wife and four children, along with hundreds of idiotic half-literate bloggers for his various websites who share his zeal for mindlessly attacking every non-wingnut aspect of life on Earth but lack his amiable personality.
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Less perfected sociopaths, right.
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James Wilson, the man who made it impossible to buy porn in Times Square or smoke pot with abandon in Tompkins Square Park. Also, the individual most responsible for the Manhattan Real Estate Boom and, along with Osama bin Laden, the man most responsible for Rudy Giuliani's fleeting viability as a US Presidential candidate.
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Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre
Bummer. My older college aged sister turned me onto them when I was a young teen in the 70s and I loved them. My enigmatic board handle comes from one of their albums.
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Great grandma Angeline RIP. Whiskey water, hot pants, a cabin on the lake, a deck of cards, and playing piano and singing at the party all night long. That was her. Rad lady. 96 is a damn good run, though.
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I would have liked Angeline.
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I will pour my first whiskey of the night in her honor, cop.
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Whiskey for everyone. We'll sing Sweet Angeline. So let's be thankful now not sad, for the little love we've had.
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Thanks, dudes. I didn't know her well. She had a major stroke when I was just a kid, like 7 or 8, and it ruined her ability to make sense. Last I saw her, just a month ago, she still wanted to show me her wedding ring and a picture of my great Grandpa. Cute as shit.
She was real good to my dad when he was a kid and my grandma always spoke highly of her as a mother. My great grandfolks are the reason I've wanted a cabin for as long as I can remember. I'll have one someday in their honor.
Anyway, I hope you're having a Windsor water, listening to Astral Weeks, and playing Don't Get Mad with Great Grandpa somewhere. You were a good egg.
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<a href=" http://lambiek.net/artists/g/giraud.htm">Jean Giraud,</a><a href=" http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/22/jean-moebius-giraud-art/"> aka</a> Moebius
(Caution = n00dz, possibly NSFWness)
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Ravi Shankar, I am truly saddened by this.
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Ravi Shankar Sharma. Different Ravi. Still dead, though.
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whew
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^RIP Moebius - I always loved your illustrations.
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Found a few new/old photos of my godfather, Ollie. All of his old friends (including my folks) are planning a big memorial camping trip this summer to South Manitou Island. I anticipate a lot of howling at the moon and chanting of "WWOD". Miss him dearly.
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now i want to listen to 'down in the park' but i can't cuz i'm at work
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Awww, Ced Sharpley. I saw Numan twice back in the day, so I must have seen Ced as well. Looks like he was in a prog rock band called Druid prior to joining Numan.
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Earl Scruggs, age 88, reunited with Lester Flatt.
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Scruggs?! Noooooooooo! Saw him with his family band in 2007 at Merlefest. Grampa tore the place a new asshole.
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damn.
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FUNKY BAR RIP
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dang that guy was cool. i read a feast of snakes years ago. should read more of his stuff
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whoah. RIP.
there was a rad and long interview with that brah in a years old issue of Vice that ruled.
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Body is the only one I've read - no idea how it stacks up against the rest of his work, but I sure liked it. Motorbooty did a great interview with him years ago ('88-89 maybe?), but a cursory search didn't turn up an archived version.
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His last two novels (Celebration and The Mulching Of America) were weak, but everything else of his is a safe bet. I particularly love A Childhood: The Biography Of A Place. Was just talking about him with patti fundament not a week or so ago.
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fringe music supporter/blogger/writer Lee Jackson died on monday, due to complications from ALS.
he contributed to broken face zine, foxy digitalis & maintained his own blog, womblife. sad to hear this, he'd been a supporter of my label efforts since the very start.
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@crews
:(
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I'm going to miss Lee a lot too. I only met him in person once, but he was a really great guy, and supported my work for many years as well.
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whoa. best amps ever
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Thank you, Jim.
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if I'm ever full of money I'm going to fulfill my Marshall dreams
RIP
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He was a yung Kanadian.
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Ah, too bad about Jim Marshall. I got to meet him at the NAMM show a few years back. His family and Korg handlers understandably wanted to get him back to the hotel after a long meet and greet, but he insisted on shaking my hand and talking to me for a few minutes. Very pleasant man.
And yes, the best guitar amps.
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(not the most flattering pic there)
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jeez how did he get to be 93 already
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A former writing instructor of mine, Lewis "Buddy" Nordan, died at 72. Obituary in the NY Times.
He was a bit of a reformed wildman and a likable guy, whose big hit was Wolf Whistle in 1993,
about the Emmett Till murder. R.I.P.
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DICK CLARK DEAD
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whoah wut
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AS FUCK
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Still weirded out by Harry Crews dying. Great band too! -lydia, kim and sadie mae.
I always think about "Body" when I see body builders. Car was good too. and the hawk is dying is a GREAT movie imo.
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oh and yeah. surprise. dick clark is officially dead.
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wut? Seriously?
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Don Cornelius, and now Dick Clark. I would say "End of an Era", but I suppose that era actually ended a long time ago.
Long may his ball drop.
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Wait, are you surprised to find out that the person you said was dead is dead?
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cause of death: boogie-woogie flu, which developed into rockin' pneumonia.
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I love the old 13th Floor Elevators clip:
DC: "So who's the head man here?"
Tommy Hall: (completely unironic) "We're all heads"
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I thought Dick Clark would live forever.
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Orbit
4/18/12 3:17 PM
I love the old 13th Floor Elevators clip:
DC: "So who's the head man here?"
Tommy Hall: (completely unironic) "We're all heads"
---I love this. Clark's still from the era where you just assume some sort of hierarchical order is present and unquestioned in everything. Band is all 'tuned in, dropped out'. Awesome.
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Ryan Seacrest just saw his future. A 5 second blurb on another variety show of the future...
p.s. props to the pic Finn
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Levon Helm
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Greg Ham, flautist and sax player from Men At Work.
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He enjoyed booze guns cars and younger women until the day his drunk wife shot him from her '56 T-bird.
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Jen Degolier
Jen was a well known lighting designer in the TC theater scene and a long time bartender at the Black Forest. I haven't spoken to her in a few years but she was always a real funny, lovely person and an excellent lighting engineer. If you have even been remotely involved in local theater in some way chances are you have come across her before. Service is tomorrow afternoon
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junior seau
he was my fav linebacker in madden 97 for snes. RIP
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Oh man, Elliot Fine! That is very sad. My heart goes out to Milo.
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George "Goober" Lindsey, 83.
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Ah shit. RFD-TV produced a Salute To The Kornfield this past year that featured a surprisingly (to me) high number of surviving cast members, Mr. Lindsey included.
Somehow 40 years on Grandpa Jones' wife RAMONA looks exactly the same.
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Maurice Sendak :(
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:(
RIP
Maurice Sendak's books are so wonderful- I loved them as a kid and even more as an adult reading them to the kids I worked with.
I am in the milk and the milk's in me.
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awwww.
he was on the Colbert Report a few months back and was amazing
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Now Sendak? God, it always happens in an endless succession of uncountable billions.
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I've been gnashing my horrible teeth in respect.
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Sendak was an absolute leviathan. The only worthy rival to the thrown of Seuss.
This from the NYT obit is so spot on: "(Sendak) wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche."
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Listened to MPR this morning and heard about Maurice Sendak. My son turned to me and said "he's dead? That's so sad!" Definitely one of our favorites.
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Maurice Sendak: On Life, Death And Children's Lit
I cried when I listened to this interview months ago. RIP Maurice.
"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready."
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My patience
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R.I.P. Denny Fitch
My irrational fear of flying made watching his appearance on Errol Morris' First Person all that more affecting. His episode is so incredible.
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in today's NY Times:
To the Editor:
There once was a scared little 15-year-old girl. She had been neglected and sexually abused for several years and was finally ready to tell someone about it. It was one of the scariest things she had done in her life.
She was taken to the police station, where she was made to sit around for several hours while the adults argued about her future. The more she tried to stay still, the more nervous she became. She needed something to calm her down, so she decided to explore the book rack.
She came upon what looked like a children’s book, but the pictures on the cover did not look like anything she had ever seen. As she thumbed deeper and deeper into the story, she was transported with Max, and forgot about her world for just a little while.
The rest of that day was a blur, but one thing was sure: she could do this. She had always known that the world was full of big scary monsters, but with the right combination of strength and trust, any of those monsters could be tamed. It was O.K. for her to be angry. She didn’t need to hold it in anymore.
That little girl has since grown up and moved on from her past, but that book, “Where the Wild Things Are,” will always hold a special place in her heart.
So let the rumpus begin, Mr. Sendak. It’s your turn to roam where the wild things are. I’ll never forget what you did for me.
KRISTINA BLAKE
Mint Hill, N.C., May 9, 2012
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Oh, boy, that letter is crushing.
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I could give a crap about the race cars but mm-MMM I love Mr. Shelby's chili mix going on 40 years.
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Not a big fan of the Cobra, but the Ford GT40 story, with which he was involved, is kind of interesting.
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Wow, i am really saddened by this.
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danng. rip duck.
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I declare today Duck Dunn Discog Day!
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:(
i was just at stax museum in memphis a few days ago..
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sooooo glad I went and saw 'em at the Dakota last year.
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who played drums at dakota and varsity shows??
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michael bland
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Some guy from "Possum Dixon".. I can't even remember if they had a "hit" or not.
Sounds like the guy had been partying continuously since the '90s. Heroin, pills, crack, drinking, good times.
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i remember liking that 'emergency about to end' song but thinking everything else stunk.
still, RIP bro.
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Yeah, RIP.
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My friend Jim wore a Possum Dixon t-shirt about four out of every five days for most of junior and senior year of high school.
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When i saw them last year it was Steve Potts on drums, Al Jackson's cousin. He looked psyched to be there.
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Possum Dixon's big radio song was "Watch the Girl Destroy Me", shortly after which the singer's wife killed herself.
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oooooof.
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man, really sad about Duck
kinda weird that he and levon went so close, as those two i think really understood playing in a groove better than 99.9 percent of musicians ever
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99.995
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"danjohnson
5/14/12 9:54 AM
My friend Jim wore a Possum Dixon t-shirt about four out of every five days for most of junior and senior year of high school."
his sophmore/junior years.
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Chuck Brown, "godfather of go-go".
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ah SHIT I saw he had pneumonia but hoped he was on the mend.
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yeah, this is the lead story here in Washington D.C.
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We would go to sea with a stack of reel-to-reel reels of "hit music" and Bustin' Loose was the only song I looked forward to coming around every time.
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Now he can play the same groove for the rest of time....
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Donna Summer, cancer at 63. Last dance.
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whoah. rip.
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so sad
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RIP DS
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summer bummer
her and moroder made some awesome tunes
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Finn McCool
5/17/12 10:53 AM
Donna Summer, cancer at 63. Last dance.
Sigh.
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doug dillard, RIP
http://youtu.be/YSrDtl-3eJs
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Lotsa dying in my record collection lately. Rest in Pickin', Doug.
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And Robin Gibb finally loses the battle.
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garyburrito
5/17/12 1:47 PM
Lotsa dying in my record collection lately. Rest in Pickin', Doug.
sadly, this same coincidence is happening with my record collection as well. even more sadly, RIP to all that have passed.
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NOOOOOOO!
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Pete Cosey RIP
Best known for his playing with Miles Davis from 1973-75 (Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, Get Up With It and a million bootlegs), he also played on Muddy Waters' Electric Mud and After the Rain (which is a better album, IMO), Howlin' Wolf's The Howlin' Wolf Album (aka "This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album") and a bunch of other stuff. In more recent years, he guested with Burnt Sugar on a few albums and had a band called Children of Agharta in which he re-interpreted '70s Miles work. An amazing guitarist with a totally unique sound
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woah
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Ah man RIP Cosey, you were so sick on Agharta/Pangaea, seriously...
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RIP to my old pal Ellen, whom I first met in 1989 as part of the decadent little scene of wannabe punks and assorted weirdos in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
I was going to say that I'm feeling extra old right now, but dying in one's sleep at 43 is not something that happens to most people.
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Condolences, Orbit.
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sorry to hear that, orbit.
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:( @ Pete Cosey
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Goddamnit, I am so bummed about Doc. This is my most 9/11 musician death since at least Waylon. I remember singing his version of "Tennessee Stud" with my pops when I was eight years old, and I haven't stopped listening to him since.
All-time great voice, a major innovator on the guitar, and a singular figure in American music. Plus, his show at the Cedar three or four years ago was a top-5 show I've ever seen. Hair-raising.
You were a good one, Doc.
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cosey SLAYED on Miles's and H Wolf's stuff, seriously underrated and unchained electric wildness.
RIP
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another great read:
http://www.thelastmiles.com/interviews-pete-cosey.php
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"and the survey says 'you're dead'" - wu tang
RIP
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Awwww, he seemed like a great guy. And wow do I ever associate him with my childhood.
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Pinky rings for days.
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(No, not the Pink Floyd song.)
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Oh yeah, we knew why he was so bent on kissing all the female contestants.
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Oh no, Kathryn Joosten! I loved her :(
I cried for about a day when her character on The West Wing died.
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Not sure if Roar/the Classical/anyone else was familiar with him, but Faruq Z. Bey passed over the weekend. As the obit says, he was an icon in Detroit's avant garde music scene, and founder of Griot Galaxy. I only saw him once, with the Northwoods Improvisors a few years ago. His health was failing even then, but they were outstanding across the board. I had been meaning to dig for some GG material, as I used to hear the name and wonder what it was all about, but never got around to it. Anyway, no time like the present.
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Ray Bradbury, R.I.P.
link
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You cranky, eccentric old fool. Thank you for writing my favorite book ever.
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I'm sure I told the story before but when my sister Laurie's husband was turning 50 she sent Jerry's beloved hardcover of Fahrenheit 451 to Ray's management in hopes of an autograph. Birthday came and went, but like a month later back the book came, inscribed and doodled and annotated from front to back.
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Sorry to hear of Faruq Z Bey's passing. I first heard him on an American Tapes cd-r from '99 or so, sitting in with Graveyards...definitely one of my favorite AT releases. Then I followed him backwards to Griot Galaxy and forwards to the Northwoods Improvisers.
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I knew I could count on you knowing who that was, Roar. That 2009 performance was the first time I had seen the Northwoods Improvisors in 20 years (and the first with Faruq). The bassist, Mike Johnson, used to work at the only record store in town, and was always quite a wellspring of information about jazz. I believe he still has a weekly radio show, called 'Destination: Out', on Michigan Public Radio.
re: Bradbury - we were also just discussing his short story "The Last Night of the World" after seeing 4:44 at the Trylon last night, for obvious reasons.
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Ach Ray Bradbury...RIP
And Faruq Z Bey, the name is familiar, not sure if I know his work, but always a loss when a heavy-hitter improv player passes
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I still read Bradbury's short story "The Small Assassin" when looking for tips about how to weave a sinister undertone into an otherwise domestic setting. R.I.P.
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"There Will Come Soft Rains", a post-apocalyptic story about a robotic house cleaning itself long after its inhabitants are gone, was my first Bradbury and still probably my favorite. RIP.
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jawknee
6/06/12 12:19 PM
"There Will Come Soft Rains", a post-apocalyptic story about a robotic house cleaning itself long after its inhabitants are gone, was my first Bradbury and still probably my favorite. RIP.
I used audio samples from an LP I have of Leonard Nimoy reading this story on an album an old band made around 1999. Great one!
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I didn't know the dude but have been hearing a lot about Dave Tedder today. Wish I'd gotten the chance to meet him. My roommate was close to him and we're having a bonfire in our backyard tonight in his memory. Come over if this means anything to you and you want to swap stories. 2621 Bloomington, back of the house.
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RIP Rodney King
Apparently the 47 y/o man was found on the bottom of his swimming pool by his fiancée.
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It looks like in the end, Rodney beat himself :(
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Not cool, man.
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Can't we all just get a lifejacket?
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RIP. Too young :(
Something something death pool
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Apparently he was supposed to fight Jose Canseco in a celebrity boxing match in August.
Dude just LOVED getting beat up.
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People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations, which [I] wasn't cut out to be. I didn't go to school to be "Rodney King" and [be] beat up by cops and thrust into the limelight. It's taken years to get used to the situation I'm in in life and the weight it holds. One of the cops in the jail [in a later encounter] said: You know what? People are going to know who you are when you're dead and gone. A hundred years from now, people still going to be talking about you. It's scary, but at the same time it's a blessing.
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Dude was a pretty severe alcoholic.
Depressing.
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had no idea she had both legs amputated. always liked her.
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Nora Ephron. Well, shit.
I Feel Bad About Her Leukemia.
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Andy Griffith, r.i.p.
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Matlock
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MAN FUCK THIS
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He had a beautiful singing voice.
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A Face In The Crowd, Andy Griffith's unbelievable, un-comedic screen debut is on tomorrow night on Turner Classics, introduced by Spike Lee as part of his night of favorite movies.
I've seen it every 3-4 years since my first HBO subscription in 1980 and Andy's Will Rogers by way of Glenn Beck performance is more relevant each time.
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Sergio Pininfarina r.i.p.
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Ernest Borgnine!
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NOOOOOOO!
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GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO
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95 years old! good run man, good run.
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Awww shit
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Dick Van Dyke and Jim Nabors better cross their fingers.
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Ann Marsden, beloved local photographer.
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RIP indeed
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Captain Sensible (I think) on touring behind Music for Pleasure with Lol Coxhill:
"The only good thing that came out of the album for me was Lol Coxhill.
He was really funny. He walked in with these two life-size kiddies' puppets,
one on roller skates and one in a pram. They had names and he was leading
them along. He'd consult them. He was so brilliant. He did some gigs and
being a teacher too, he'd sit there marking papers onstage with these books
on his lap while all the mayhem's going on around him."
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Shit, man. Lol ruled.
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Scharpling liked Flemion more way than I thought. His tribute on the Best Show was touching to me at least.
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nooooo not the guy who created encyclopedia brown!!!!
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Stephen R. Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) - Died after struggling for months with the residual effects of a bicycle accident in the foothills of Provo, UT. I wonder what he had in his planner for this week...
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Yeah, sad.
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I was trying to figure out which Bob Welch lp was my favorite for the 'good and cheap' thread and saw he died back in June. RIP
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Oh whoa. My aunt worked with him for many years at The Nation. She's actually in town from NYC right now. I'll have to have a chat with her...
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Gong have lost one of their biggest fans.
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Hemsley
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That Gong story is bonkers.
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you forever changed the face of pcp slang
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oh my.
la jetee is one of the first foreign films i ever saw. i still think about it all the time, and it remains one of the scariest films i've ever seen.
rip.
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Restauranteur Pat Murray, son of Jack, father of current owner Tim. (Per RT Rybak's twitter)
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RIP Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix, Apples in Stereo, etc
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just saw that. fruck.
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Gore Vidal, age 86.
Getting punched by William Buckley's ghost.
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Having Buckley's ghost only threaten to punch him
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Hate to be a spelling downer in an RIP thread, but restaurateur has no "n."
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ARE YOU SERIOUS. omg i have been spelling that rong for years. how did i never notice that?! i thought i was smart. ugh.
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RIP, zsa zsa's sense of self-esteem.
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it's hanging on by a string since i became really good at mulching instead
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You know how cunty the "hate to be" comes across, right.
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especially in this thread... pretty cunty.
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As cunty as they wanna be. As cunty as a question with a period at the end. Danjohnson cunty.
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Man, Gore Vidal. Dude you were baddass.
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Wow. "smart dudes" getting bitchy about spelling, I LOVE IT.
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I just found out David Rakoff died of cancer yesterday. I didn't know he was sick. One of my absolute favorite essayists and one of the funniest writers I have every come across. So sad.
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Joe Kubert, master comic book artist
He was one of my favorites as a kid, and I have much more appreciation for his work now as an adult, especially his primitive man stuff like Tor. His sense of anatomy and storytelling through pictures was what made a huge impression on me, he was kinda DC's John Buscema. I'm really saddened I'll never get to meet him, was hoping I'd get to see him at a con somewhere and thank him in person for igniting my lifelong passion for comic books. Some of my first comics were reprints of Sgt. Rock books from the 60s and 70s, still have them.
Joe Kubert, Neal Adams and Moebius marker jam
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Ah, shit. I heard about this a couple months ago. Got rearended by one car, and then hit by another when he got out. RIP, Dan.
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Arkansas 1972 - 1982
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Horshack, 63, heart attack
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WUT
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SF legend Harry Harrison, aged 87.
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Shit, Harry Harrison was one of my favorites. I'm gonna re-read all 12 Stainless Steel Rat books. And the Jupiter Plague.
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Just saw the news about Suzy. Very sad. She brought so much great energy to the world.
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So bummed about Horseshit.
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A BLUE WAX RON PALLILO SINGLE???!!!????
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tony scott
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broke his neck on the canopy :-(
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I hadn't opened this thread in a while.
I'm pleased to see that I evidently have a genre of cuntiness named after me.
It's an accurate comparison; somewhere around this board, there's record of me correcting someone's spelling of "aneurysm" in a very similar context.
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That's too bad about Tony Scott. He was a reliable director of "good bad movies". I may have to watch The Last Boy Scout again one of these days to commemorate his disreputable but shamelessly entertaining career.
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Play some shirtless beach volleyball in his honor.
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I really hope they still make Top Gun 2!!
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agreed, loved his movies, such good popcorn
the hunger, that's my fav
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Worked until the end. Just had her birthday too.
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Riding around in the Mystery Machine is a lot less funny now.
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William Windom, who played Commodore Decker in "The Doomsday Machine." One of the truly memorable performances from Star Trek: The Original Series.
IMAGE REMOVED - CLICK TO VIEW
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rip
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Ah shit! Mr Windom also starred in My World And Welcome To It as (essentially) James Thurber, a series I looked forward to every Monday night before Laugh-In.
Fantastic representative image, DM. Thanks.
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rip Nester
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Death Mosque
8/20/12 7:32 PM
William Windom, who played Commodore Decker in "The Doomsday Machine." One of the truly memorable performances from Star Trek: The Original Series.
Spent a rainy Saturday afternoon watching "The Doomsday Machine" and "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar". Scenery completely devoured.
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Neil Armstrong!
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Damn.
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Bypass surgery at 82 has to be rough.
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I'll be the first to say it:
What do Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson have in common?
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Malcolm Browne, war correspondent who photographed the infamous self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc.
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Malcolm Browne, war correspondent who photographed the infamous self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc.
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(iFuck)
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chris lighty, former manager of a tribe called quest plus tons of other hiphop acts.
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Comedian Bill "Wild Bill" Bauer.
Worked with him in the mid '80s several times, doing sound. Funny guy.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/blogs/168028146.html
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FUCK. Bill's son introduced Randi & me.
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I met Bill in the mid-80s. He brought Pat & me to Riverplace on Halloween weekend, probably the most surreal experiences of my childhood. He introduced me to the larger-than-life Scott Hansen and gave me a soda to enjoy during his curse-filled performance at the Acme comedy club. I was probably 8 or 9. RIP.
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i guess the chris lighty thing is a suicide. bummer.
According to the New York Daily News, Lighty had been dealing with some personal issues that included a divorce from his wife last year and an IRS debt that totaled around $5 million.
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Legendary songwriter and Bacharach collaborator Hal David, 91.
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Really missing my mom. This fucking sucks. Wish Heaven was a real thing.
I just realized I have some saved messages from her on my phone. I better hit the sack before I start feeling feelings. Gross.
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He had the menstrual cramps real bad.
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Joe South :(
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John Cage would have been 100 today...:)
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Whoa, dan, I never would have put that together. Well done.
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Art Modell, NFL owner of the old Browns and current Ravens, 87
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Now she can finally marry Adam Scott's character on Parks and Rec, and he can finally marry the ghost of Will Ferrell's Bill Brasky guy from SNL.
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Or he can marry Christina Applegate, and Up All Night can live happily ever after.
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Read that Brendan Majewski, original bassist for Quix*o*tic (great band) committed suicide last year.
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The Into Another reunion shows for the Revelations Records anniversary led me to discover that their bass player passed away. Mutate Me is a jam.
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i really like Quix*o*tic, too
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Morgan Freeman?
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only famous people get to have hoax deaths
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Child, don't fuck with me now...
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Watching Cocaine Cowboys on Netflix tonite in honor of Griselda Blanco.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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Easy-listening, Caesars-headlining, Bronson-pioneering, Osmond-foisting Andy Williams, 84.
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BRANSON
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Missouri?
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Pinchot
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Every time I think of Andy Williams, I think of Chevy Chase and rubber gloves.
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Seconded, Orbit.
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Did Andy die because I linked to The Osmonds' Crazy Horses too much?
Or not enough?
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i didn't think he was gonna play 'moon river'...and then, BAM!, second encore!
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Chris Economaki, 91. I'm guessing most of you pups were born post-ABC's Wide World of Sports.
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I'll be sadder when Vinko Bogataj dies.
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Eric Hobsbawm
One of my favorite old-school lefty historians. "Age of Empires" and "Age of Extremes" are solid reading. Bummed.
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John Tchicai, important jazzbo.
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I'm not sure if anyone on this board is familiar with this guy or not, but I just found out the other day that Mankato's resident weird old punk dude, Punk Rock Freddie died last week. Dude was an easy target, much in the same way that Scott Seekins is here, but by all accounts was just a really good, nice old guy that was around everywhere all the time.
He was mentioned super-briefly in that sorta-recent City Pages article about Minneapolis cops looking up peoples' personal information for fun and for harassing babes. I guess they couldn't get enough of the fact that he actually legally changed his name to Punk Rock Freddie. Whatever it takes, I guess.
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Oh shit. RIP Freddie. Never met the guy but he was definitely a character around town and at shows when I lived in Mankato.
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RIP Freddie. When I met him, I didn't believe that he legally changed his name to Punk Rock Freddie, so he showed me his ID. Then he showed me his dick. Truly a weird dude.
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I had no idea that Mongo was also George on Webster.
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Mongo only pawn...in game of life.
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That's what that graphic says Finn posted in case it's too small to read for people glad I could help I'll be moving along now
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aawwww george p
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Well, he outlived Cleavon Little by nearly 20 years. RIP you ragtag fighters for justice.
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Arlen "Single Bullet Theory" Specter, 82.
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whoa. end of an era. (?)
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Holy shit.
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Specter had my respect. RIP.
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I read this morning that McGovern is on the ropes.
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Newsweek print edition, 1932-2012.
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I just finished rereading Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72...so great even knowing how doomed McGovern's presidential bid was the whole time. I ended feeling legimately mad & depressed that he lost and I wasn't even born yet.
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Good riddance, stone tablets and vellum scrolls.
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Thriving 'Onion' Puts Another Print Edition Out Of Business onion.com/RKzN5u
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Street Sampras, 2012-2012
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RIP David S. Ware, beautiful guy, fantastic musician; 62, long-time struggle with kidney-transplant. i saw him around 2000 with shipp/parker/ibarra, missed his solo tour unfortunately.
confirmed by an email from wm parker's wife patricia a few hours ago.
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fuck. this thread is the worst.
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RIP indeed, d.s.w.
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very sad. i have such fond memories of that show at the walker with matthew shipp & co. many moons ago...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HK2ZwhDOE
rashied ali/david s. ware, vision fest 2001
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MCGOVERN HAS GONE BACK TO THE COSMOS
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^^ shaped my views like no other. A hero of mine. Hats off.
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And on the heels of McGovern, another figure important in South Dakota history that they never taught us an iota about growing up in South Dakota.
Russell Means
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oh no! RIP, what a great man.
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Run Wrake. Shit, he was only 47.
From the message his wife posted on Facebook:
We left him at 7pm doing what he loved best- drawing and animating with peg bar and paper.
Fuck cancer.
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Natina Reed, from the 2000 r&b group Blaque. Hit by a car.
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Oh no! She had one of my favorite lines in 'Bring It On'. "You've been touched by an angel, gurl."
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r.i.p. Ellf
west banker, true punk rocker, had probably attained local weirdy status by now. he was really fucking smart and loved to mess with people. if you met him you probably met him at hard times.
i don't want to turn his death into a thing about alcoholism, but anyone who has known him saw the toll alcohol took on him. lots of his friends preceded him in death due to addictions or accidents, and lots drifted away when they got sober. he still had a devoted group of friends that he looked out for and who looked out for him.
even when he was homeless and he didn't have shit, he gave me a plastic coffee mug, because he had two, so i didn't have to keep getting to-go cups. i used it for years until it broke.
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sorry to hear that, zsa. :(
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sorry zzg
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Ellf was super nice & always fun to
hang out with. I have photos from
one time when his boil drained &
we were all dancing in Palmers. RIP.
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patti- will you email them to me please?
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O dip- I bet ruxpin just raised the price on that Elliot Carter record he bought from me.
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they did it right at the end
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Still lookin' zsa zsa. Hopefully will find & scan
by next week's anniversary/wake/whatever at
HTC.
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thanks! there's some really good ones up right right now on FB.
went through his stuff a bit today. there was not one but two business cards from Captain Tony. they were awesome.
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Haha, I bet. I bought him pants once, his only pair
at the time got lost, so I ran to Kaplan's for him. I
owed him for beating me at naming every country
south of the equator before I could for free drinks!
He was a smart guy & knew all kinds of people. I had
so many completely useless nights turn better after a
late cup of tea & short, not always cheerful conversation.
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oooof rip
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john napier from ethyl meatplow
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Crap. I love Ethyl Meatplow. That's not past tense, I still listen to that album a bunch. RIP
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man, Tom Bruno and David Ware. Crazy.
roar and class, either of you go to that Test show in the Whole years back???? One of the greatest free improv things I've ever seen. Totally transcendent.
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I did. I also caught them playing in the subway at the Astor St Place station a month later when I was home for the holidays. I've been meaning to dig out the recording I made of it and see if maybe I could do something with it...I always liked the idea of putting out a record of them in their "natural habitat," with the sounds of the trains rushing by.
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RIP, thanks for the info. I didn't know about his recent connections with Pussy Riot and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, interesting.
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also,
guiltriddenpop vol 2
11/12/12 6:43 PM
john napier from ethyl meatplow
I still vividly recall him throwing a giant tantrum in the Entry, after the singer from Pachinko clocked him in the face. Butt naked, bloody face, yanking on his dick and screaming from the stage - too bad my pics didn't get developed.
I guess I told that story before, but. . .what a scene. He kinda asked for it, though.
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I met John while working at Restless Records - we were trying to sign them before they blew up - he was good friends with one of A&R reps and would later form a record label with her....
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Larry Hagman. R.I.P. J.R.
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Orbit
11/20/12 9:27 PM
Close to warsawpactarmor's heart, in particular: Boris Strugatsky.
NO
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hector camacho
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Bummer on Camacho. I rode an elevator with him and his posse in a hotel in Puerto Rico once. It was really awkward.
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gasp
which one
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Larry Hagman, the star of I Dream of Jeannie, both the classic Dallas and new TNT Dallas, died of complications from throat cancer this past Friday. The winsome actor was 81
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holy molay
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Coach Rick Majerus dies at 64
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lol
:(
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rip my fantasy season
it was only chance to be happy
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paul_f
12/04/12 11:19 PM
lol
:(
so complicated
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The lol that gets stuck in your throat.
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Breaking, no further details: Dave Brubeck.
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take five. FOREVER.
RIP
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RIP Brubeck, perhaps at once the most overrated and in a weird way underrated artist of all time....Jazz Impressions of Japan has been one of my favorite album purchases of the past couple years
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Every time I hear or read "Impressions of Japan", it always seems like it's gonna be super racist.
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Oscar Niemeyer, 104
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Nooooooooooo! He was my favorite #1 "I can't believe he's still alive" guy
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sarah (mike) kirsch of mothercountry motherfuckers, baader brains, please inform the captain this is a hijack, bread and circuits, torches to rome, john henry west, pinhead gunpowder, fuel, etc. etc. the definition of a true punk.
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wait, WHAT>??????
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i forgot she had that weird genetic disease. fuck. RIP.
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Fucking bummer. Pinhead Gunpowder was/is a majorly huge band to me. She was one tough dude.
I'm gonna jam some Jump Salty right now.
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that Bread & Circuits record is fucking mental. soooo good.
gonna spin that Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack jawn when i get home.
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Listening to Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack - Transnational Vampire Killers right now. Certainly makes me think of a certain time period in my life.
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i only have 'defeat or humiliate the united states of america'. it's a hellafied jam.
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You can find moar on youtube.
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Ed Cassidy made it to 89.
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airloom told me about that earlier tonight, what a bummer. For some reason I didn't realize he was in his 90s.
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I would have sworn Ravi was 92 at the Concert for Bangladesh.
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He was always 92, in this and every other life.
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opened this thread, read "ravi shankar" at exactly the same time that they announced his death on mpr, weird
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I think that means you just got pregnut with his reincarnation!
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Third in line for the presidency, Sen. Daniel Inouye, aged 88.
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Bears a cut and paste ( from Wiki)
On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most dogged line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss.
As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore".[11] Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody called off the war!"
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Damn, that's some Simo Häyhä-style shit
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Danny Inouye's son Kenny played guitar in 80's Discord band Marginal Man. He was a pretty awesome senator in his day. RIP
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Also: Inouye had been a member of congress for as long as Hawaii had been a state.
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One of my friends who lived in the DC area in the 80s tweeted last night about seeing the Senator at Marginal Man shows at the 9:30 Club back in the day
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the Classical
12/18/12 1:46 PM
One of my friends who lived in the DC area in the 80s tweeted last night about seeing the Senator at Marginal Man shows at the 9:30 Club back in the day
-----its ok, u can be friends with ian mackaye in here
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RIP
Michael Stephenson, a.k.a. Stichael Meeveson, old school caller to the PA & Dubay show, he was in a wheelchair and because of his physical ailments spoke by typing into a computer vocalizer thing...
old school PA & Dubay fans will remember him, when he called they would play "Computer Love" by Zapp, in the article PA wrote above, I learned he went to a lot of timberwolves games and was well liked by flip and the player -- especially, surprisingly, Latrell Sprewell....
also he started the Lavelle E Neil - "Lah-vul" thing because of how his computer would pronounce Lavelle....La-vuhl eventually morphed into "Wobble"
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Damn.
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Leah Rule died on the 21st.. spill
something on the floor at the Turf
next time you're there.
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Awww shit.
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Gerry Anderson
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I had no idea Durning was so baller. D-Day. Battle of the Bulge. Damn.
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Yeah, he was everywhere.
And we knew it was coming, but Leah Rule's passing is so sad.
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dog day afternoon feels so different after durning's character leaves.
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Wow, I get to break the news that Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has died to the board? Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf has died.
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Fontella Bass
Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly)
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Iron Butterfly now tallies five dead bass players.
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Yeah, that's the one I just looked up to make sure it wasn't the same bassist.
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Also, "disappeared while working on faster-than-light communication" is pretty ominous.
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It's so rare that my interest in quantum technologies and acid rock intersect.
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Mother of Invention Ray Collins, aged 74.
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Pretty positive they figured out the disappeared Iron Butterfly guy killed himself. He drove his car into one of the canyons in LA, which can lead to them not knowing what happened to you for years on end. I know I read that somewhere.
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that's exactly what his killer would say...
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Special RIP for the still-unnamed young woman from Delhi, India, who has passed due to injuries she sustained as the victim of a gang rape aboard a city bus on December 16.
( Here is a bit of background on the incident, with other related links at the bottom of the page. BBC has been following this closely since it happened).
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seriously stomach-turning.
fucking gross.
RIP indeed.
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i want her to r.i.p. but i also want her to torment her assailants for all eternity.
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Willard Scott is still alive.
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fontella bass
i saw ms. bass at wilebski's doing Gospel back in the 80's. it was one of the most spine-tingling and inspiring shows i have ever seen. it would be a grave injustice to remember her as a one-hit wonder. i'd highly recommend picking up her great paula label album, entitled "free." love and respect.
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death by chain fight.
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:(
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That story has been bumming me out today.
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Just read that article. This was my favorite line:
"On Wednesday JSTOR announced that it would open its archives for 1,200 journals to free reading by the public on a limited basis"
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Dear Abby.
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daaaaaaamn. rip, abby.
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And Conrad Bain.
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^
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Stan Musial as well. 92 yrs old.
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I saw a bunch of references to Stan the Man and thought it was Stan Lee.
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Settling the question "Is Stan Musial still alive"?
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For now.
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Steve Kramer, former Contortion, leader of legendary Minneapolis group the Wallets, ultra-talented artist and total sweetheart died yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. Steve was one of the first cool people I knew who got clean after substance abuse problems, and served as an important inspiration for me in my own recovery. I'm stunned.
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Whoa. Too young. My sincerest condolences, hfon. They made quite an impression on me as a late junior-high/early high school awkward phase kid first exploring local music.
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Thanks SC.
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I gasped. I didn't know him, but I was such an early Wallets fan. The band was great, and Steve was an awesome keyboard player. He played it like percussion, very rhythmic.
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I was working at First Ave when they filmed the Totally Nude video. Crazy shoot.
He always seemed very sweet and humble. The Contortions thing is sort of mind-blowing.. I think I heard he had fallen out of a window in NYC around that time and had facial reconstruction surgery.
Bummer.. too young and still cool.
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Ah shit.. I didn't meet her until we opened for The Gun Club and she was playing bass. I had no idea at the time she was from here until we got to talking. She really liked our band and of course we loved The Gun Club. I didn't know she moved back here.
RIP. dang it.
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fuck, that is really sad
I met Anny like three or four years ago she was walking down my alley at like three in the morning. we smoked cigarettes and talked for hours that night. and since then every time i would run into her it was like we were best friends catching up.
from the obituary
"With the sensitive soul of a writer and artist, Anny reveled in living life “on the edge” while also enduring the wounds that accompany such a journey. She often met life with a raucous and infectious laugh, revealing a wicked and quite wonderful sense of humor that enabled her to make friends with whoever she met, wherever she went. Moreover, Anny’s sensitivities led her to both love and relate with others in all walks of life. "
that is a very good description of her
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i have history with anny, going back to early teenage boat people days. we shot smack together way back then, and we spent time together during a brief period of recovery for her a couple of years back. this breaks my heart.
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Frasconi. Didn't know he was still alive!
Great portraits in woodcuts, really amazing.
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Ed Koch. When I was a kid, this guy was the human embodiment of "Mayor." I remember my mom telling me during a drought that if I wasted water in the bath that Ed Koch was gonna get me. I was terrified of this man.
Nowadays I just think of him as a lovable old gay man who's attitude was to let New York be New York, before Disney Fascists, soda-cops, and Osama Bin Laden ruined the place.
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WHOA Ed Koch. The end of an era.
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RIP writer & translator Anselm Hollo.
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And, oooof--anybody else reading a lot of stuff like this about Ed Koch today?
"Yes, Ed Koch did lots for New York. But he did NOTHING about AIDS because
he was too ashamed of who he was to attach himself to a "gay issue". There's
nothing heroic about that. RIP Mr Mayor - and say hello to all my friends and
fellows that died on your watch."
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"Yes, Ed Koch did lots for New York. But he did NOTHING about AIDS because
he was too ashamed of who he was to attach himself to a "gay issue". There's
nothing heroic about that. RIP Mr Mayor - and say hello to all my friends and
fellows that died on your watch."
sorta implies that the poster's friends and fellows ended up in hell.
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noooooooo
shit
LOVE the Troggs.
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Whenever I see long lists of names like in movie credits or stats or something I think, "In a hundred years this will just be a huge list of dead people."
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I guess what I'm saying is most people's lives are pretty short in the scheme of things and someday we'll all end up dead or geriatric so find something to get stoked about and try and have some fun before youre a motionless pile of tissue and bone.
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Jeez dude, way to bring the thread down.
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Sometimes when I watch old sitcoms I hear the laugh track and think about how most of those laughing people are probably dead now.
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I remember being a kid and watching the old Batman show from the 60's, and realizing that Alfred and Commissioner Gordon were old enough that they were probably dead.
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man just heard about Reg
he's putting some fookin' fairy dust on it in heaven right now
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RIP Stuart Freeborn make-up artist and sculptor who worked on the Star Wars films (he did the design for Yoda) and the Superman movies, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Bridge on the Rive Kiwi, etc, etc, etc
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Donald Byrd
=(
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my ex-gf's dog, John Ya Ya :(
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oh no!!! RIP john ya ya :(
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ugh, shit, RIP JYY!
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aw sad. i know he was sick. what happened? that sucks.
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liver failure i guess :(
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jon cook/crain
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Ugh, Jesus Christ.
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I'm only familiar with her name, but damn, some of the stuff I've been reading paints an incredibly sad picture.
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pillz are bad. real bad.
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So this lady had an affair with Roger Clemens when she was a teenager? Yeesh.
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Arnaldo Putzu, genius illustrator and creator of like a billion wicked awesome movie posters.
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For all the latest medical poop
Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
Koo koo pa-doop
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RIP, King Koopa.
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John Kerr. Had never heard of this guy, but his obit caught my eye a few weeks ago because of his refusal to play Charles Lindbergh because of his Nazi sympathies. I always fucking hated having to fly through the Lindbergh Terminal and was happy when the name changed.
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The Nazis still have San Diego Int'l.
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I'm pretty sure the theater where Lincoln was shot was named after Nazi sympathized Henry Ford, so that's still a thing.
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John T. Ford (1829-1894) was a Nazi sympathizer?
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He was very forward-thinking.
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Nazi sympathizer and time traveler.
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It was a joke guys, jeez!
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Furthermore, Lincoln's assassin Tim Booth eventually became lead singer for the band James.
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We talkin' about Andrew Lincoln?
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Senator from Arkansas? Sure.
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u mean that bro from my left foot?
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yawn... wake me up when you get to My Beautiful Laundrette
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Jesus Acedo of Black Sun Ensemble.
RIP, you inhumanly talented individual.
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Hugo Chavez
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r.i.p.
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J Low
3/02/13 7:20 PM
I always fucking hated having to fly through the Lindbergh Terminal and was happy when the name changed.
Isn't it just called "Terminal 1-Lindbergh" now?
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Nazi Booster Terminal
Progressive Liberal Hero Terminal
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jesus acedo! the world has lost an underrecognized guitar giant.
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Mannyapolis
1/08/13 2:09 PM
R.I.P. Paul Bearer
Sorry, I was two months early on this post.
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Stompin' Tom Connors, aged 77.
Keep the Maple Leaf flying high.
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William Moody, aka Paul Bearer for you wrestling fans.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/entertainment&id=9018998
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Also Alvin Lee.
Goin' Home.
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I remember liking the song "Detroit Diesel" a lot. I'll have to reconfirm.
I have a high school friend with the same name, so I posted on his wall "There can be only one."
I dunno, I thought it was funny.
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Alvin Lee should taink Martin Scorese for making Ten Years After's turgid blues jams seem cool
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"thank"
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TYA is probably my favorite part of the Woodstock doc.
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Tax the rich
Feed the poor
'til there are no
Rich no more.
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Peter Banks, original Yes guitarist. RIP.
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Clive Burr - original Iron Maiden drummer on the first 3 albums.
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RIP Clive. Always thought he was grossly underappreciated.
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I was always floored by that snare roll that sets off "Murders in the Rue Morgue" as a young drummer (hell, still floored as an old drummer).
And, shit, he gave us one of the most iconic drum intros in heavy metal history, which I won't link to on YT because of stupid ads. You know the one though.
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let us never forget alvin lee and ten years after's greatest contribution to the western world: providing a young norm coleman in 1969 with work as a roadie. norm would love to change the world even today, as his current employment with a republican think tank attests.
"sssh" was my absolute favorite album to get high with in high school, over 40 (gulp!) years ago. if "bad scene" and "stoned woman" aren't two of the best tunes of the day, i'll eat my "cricklewood green" poster!
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[mentally rifles through iconic drum intros on the first three Maiden albums]
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Duh. I don't know why I was thinking that was Nicko.
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R(ot) I(n) P(iss) Ieng Sary, aka 'Brother Number Three', foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge. On trial but not yet convicted, alas.
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Lil Wayne in .....5.....4.......3.....2.....
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TMZ says he's dead.
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what no they didn't
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stomach-turning, orbit. :(
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sizzurp kills.
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well it killed Pimp C and DJ Screw, but Little Wayne is still alive. And probably been off it a while, and I hope he lives a long time, even if his music used to be amazing and now sucks.
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Blaster Al Ackerman, Baltimore mail artist/writer has passed away. I can't find any actual obits online yet, but my Bmore friends are all posting about it. He was a cool guy, and wrote the lyrics for the song Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle.
Here is a thing Lexie Mountain wrote.
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Philip Kubicki.
Stu Hamm is on suicide watch.
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Harry Reems. RIP.
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Be sure to, uh, pour a little out in his memory.
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I'm actually going to abstain as a courtesy, it will make the day more singular.
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RIP Dr. Young
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oh no, achebe. his books changed my life.
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Boris Berezovsky. For once the FSB managed to kill someone and actually make it look like natural causes.
Normally I'm a firm believer in Occam's Razor but in this particular case the fact that there's nothing suspicious is the most sinister and suspicious thing of all.
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Usually when someone dies, the news doesn't have to mention that there was no radiation found at the scene.
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I suppose it's not impossible that a 67 year-old man with a lifetime of unhealthy eating habits who was also the most persistent and defiant unsilenced critic of the Putin regime might just, you know, die.
Also, RIP. He was not exactly an unequivocally good person but he was pretty fearless and seemed to be considerably more principled and humane than many other wild '90s Russian oligarchs.
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It was like something out of an acclaimed AMC series.
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Poor Uncle Monty.
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Avuncular
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phil-ramone-record-producer-to-stars-dead-at-72-20130330,0,4088073.story">Phil Ramone>/a>
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Last week kfan told me Eddie Murphy was dead but it was a lie I guess.
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Noooooooooooooo!
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Thanks for everything, Jésus.
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Ive been making my way through his filmography, and even when his movies were terrible, they always had a distict flavor to them. Havent seen anything he did after the early 80s, bit thats on the list too. Shine on, you messed up, pervy Spaniard.
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Was just about to post about Franco. Watched Les Demons this morning in memory. RIP.
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Pattycake the gorilla died of old age at the Bronx Zoo. I loved that fucking monkey when I was a kid
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Awwwww man Roger Ebert.
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booooooooooooooooooo
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ugh
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Noooooooooooooooooo :(
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Oh man. That's terrible.
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ah man...loved MAD so much :(
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Les Blank. Teddy, Brilly and I were just talking about him yesterday. Been a big week, sadly.
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Andy Johns
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Milksnatcher Thatcher.
Meh.
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Reunited with her boyfriend Ronnie at last.
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Oh, man.
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bummer about les blank. i had a chance to meet him in new orleans introuducing his clifton chenier film, and he was a sweetheart. he has made some works which are not only amazing (nobody who ever sees the lightnin' hopkins ever forgets it) but historically/anthropologically vital. tough loss.
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you guys didnt even say margaret thatcher yet
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oh you did i must have clicked on it before when i was half asleep
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Heliotrope 2013
Skoal Kodiak
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Skoal is done?
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It's great for everyone that they're getting one last show in before they die. Not every gets to say goodbye. Hospice rock.
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IMAGE REMOVED - CLICK TO VIEW
Richard LeParmentier. If you're going to be mainly remembered for a brief role in a movie not known for its acting, you could do a lot worse.
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is he the one that gets choked by vadar?
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Yep. He also an unctuous corporate stooge in the original Rollerball.
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Looks a lot like Barclay from Star Trek.
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my his lack of faith eternally disturb
rip admiral motti
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MAY GODDAMMIT MAY
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Scott Miller, most notably of Game Theory and Loud Family. Ultimate power pop melodicist. FUCK FUCK FUCK.
He was 53
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Goddamnit. Loud Family got me through college.
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Good college times soundtracked by Lolita Nation.
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Lolita Nation, Big Shot Chronicles, Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things, Interbabe Concern... dude's music was a big deal to me. Underrated as fuck.
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Just found out a former boss passed away. Complications due to a seizure. He was less than a decade older than I am. He wasn't the best boss or most competent at running a company (at the time I worked for him) but he was a super nice guy. It's a weird thing.
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woah
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She's touching herself in heaven now.
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boo.
sincerely though, hearing "I Touch Myself" for the first time was one of the craziest, most distinct musical memories I have--totally unique encounter rivaled by a few other tunes (maybe "Running Down A Dream," "Runaway," "Constant Craving," "N-Sub Ulysses"). It just totally destroyed what I thought music could or should be about (I was very young, but still). I would give anything to feel that sensation again.
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Man, she had nice breasts. RIP.
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love that list of impressionistic tunes, piggy
RIP
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So long Richie Havens.
link
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bicorn who is in the picture you posted
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I cant remember the name of the actor, but thats a still from Jean Rollin's Requiem For A Vampire.
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HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY.
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I'm sort of surprised more board folk aren't all over this.
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You're right. I've actually been pondering it for days. I was an avid M.A.S.H. fan growing up and obviously a Diane Arbus fan as I got older and I'd never made the connection between the two. Nor did I realize he'd started out as a photographer. I bet he would have been a really interesting guy to talk to.
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No, I mean George Jones (per stuffed).
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Oh right.
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LOL
Before I read the rest, I wondered why Sharyn had been pondering George Jones' impending death for days. I mean, some of us have been pondering it for years. But not all of us.
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real sad.
one of the great voices of the 20th century for sure.
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@theonion Westboro Baptist Church Not Really Sure Why They're Picketing Allan Arbus' Funeral
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I just heard about George Jones. Dang.
Might have to move "Yesterday's Wine" to the front of my Merle Haggard karaoke queue.
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That's a bummer. Enjoy the great coke-bowl in the sky, George.
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Dolly Parton's facebook post about this made me a little sad.
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George Jones' Anniversary knocked my dick in the dirt when I was 19 and didn't know a whit about country music. One of the greatest voices in music, country or otherwise. I'm always happy to see his records in stores, knowing that someone will come along, not knowing all that much about country music, and decide to give that old creasy mug a chance, much like I did more than a decade ago.
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You kids, swear to god. I came to George Jones same way all true country traditionalists did, via Elvis Costello.
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Is that the Mack Daddy or the Daddy Mack?
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I guess it was just time to make everybody JUMP JUMP! in heaven. At age 34.
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He missed the bus! to middle age :(
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and that is somethin' he will never ever ever do again.
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R&B rap is still bullcrap. Keep dumpin.
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u r not : (
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Oh yeah, now I see. But it's really sad still. He's spending a Season In The Abyss, existing on damnation's edge with the Angel of Death
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Hell Awaits? Hopefully not.
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oh man r.i.p. to ray harryhausen, one of my childhood heroes, you made some cool monsters
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Indeed, may the gods welcome him to Olympus.
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r.i.p. James P. Tucker, Jr
aka
Jim Tucker
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RIP Ken Whaley, bassist for the great UK hippie-rock band Help Yourself.
Also sad to hear about Ray H. above. What a legend.
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Talk show fixture and boxing expert Dr Joyce Brothers, aged 85.
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Whoa! Dick Trickle killed himself yesterday. AND, called 911 to report where his dead body could be found, and then shot himself! Holy shit.
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Sue McClain age 63. I worked with Sue for about 6 years at the Guthrie. She was truly an amazing person who indulged me with booking Cocteau Twins, Ravi Shankar, Dick Dale, Tito Puente, Portishead and so many more. A huge loss for the community.
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Whoa, that's a shame. We dealt with her a lot at my job and she was terrific. Super-nice, super-professional. I only spoke with her now and then, but she and her business left an overwhelmingly positive impression. Condolences, radiation, and RIP.
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Do you mean Sue McLean?
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dang, she was nice. Shoulda got those free tickets she owed me.
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holy shit, rip dick trickle. saw him race several times at elko. what a haunting suicide story.
also sue mclean.
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RIP Romanthony! :-(
best known for singing on Daft Punk's best song, One More Time, his solo stuff was incredible too.
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<a href="Not only were the Outsiders the finest Eurobeat band, they also boasted the finest Eurobeat guitarist. Splinter’s insistent fuzzy lines may not have been the most elaborate creations even within the relatively small world of Dutch rock, but they were ideal for pushing the band’s off-kilter spin on Pretty Things-styled punkish R&B (check the molten crude solo on Won’t You Listen). He could also summon some nice folk-punkish lines on tunes like Sun’s Going Down, and evolved a more complex (yet still punkish) style for their fine psychedelic swansong, CQ.'
">ronnie splinter</a>
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sun's going down
<a href="Not only were the Outsiders the finest Eurobeat band, they also boasted the finest Eurobeat guitarist. Splinter’s insistent fuzzy lines may not have been the most elaborate creations even within the relatively small world of Dutch rock, but they were ideal for pushing the band’s off-kilter spin on Pretty Things-styled punkish R&B (check the molten crude solo on Won’t You Listen). He could also summon some nice folk-punkish lines on tunes like Sun’s Going Down, and evolved a more complex (yet still punkish) style for their fine psychedelic swansong, CQ.'">ronnie splinter</a>
<a href="Not only were the Outsiders the finest Eurobeat band, they also boasted the finest Eurobeat guitarist. Splinter’s insistent fuzzy lines may not have been the most elaborate creations even within the relatively small world of Dutch rock, but they were ideal for pushing the band’s off-kilter spin on Pretty Things-styled punkish R&B (check the molten crude solo on Won’t You Listen). He could also summon some nice folk-punkish lines on tunes like Sun’s Going Down, and evolved a more complex (yet still punkish) style for their fine psychedelic swansong, CQ.'
">ronnie splinter</a>
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