John Wilkes Booth!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 15 February 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay him. But at least they gave it a rest for Charles Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz.
But really. I can't even believe that we're talking about the president of the United States dying today.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xxp What a day. CS Lewis died today, too.
-- jaymc, Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:40 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link
And Aldous Huxley! ZOMGWTF!
― Casuistry, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Flags at half-mast (half-staff?) here in Little Rock. Can't stop watching the news on TV. Probably going to be like this through the weekend.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Imagine if channels always ran news nonstop like this. That'd be so cool.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't help but feel this is some kind of cosmic justice for the stolen election of 1960. chickens be comin' home to roost, is it not so?
― gershy, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a good side to this though, because one day you'll have a mad republican president who invades all sorts of countries and can't manage the economy and is shit, and he'll be assassinated too. Clouds and silver linings and all that.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:33 (sixteen years ago) link
too soon
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link
:(
― Hurting 2, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey guys. Just got back from Frankfurt. I saw the most amazing group of gay English boys play that rock and roll. I told them they would be a smash in America. (Of course, I was being selfish because I want to see them closer to home, lol.)
oops, wrong thread
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
JFK RIP
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Can a mod please kill/lock some of the new/revived threads:
President Kennedy Injured in Dallas? JFK shot? American president shot Guys you won't believe this USA shooting, president in crossfire Dallas book repository closed, wtf? KENNEDY WINS <-- revived by gershy halp I cannot get to the speakeasy in dallas HI DERE I CANNOT MAEK A PHONE CALL omg jackie o is single Convertibles unsafe: report Fuck. SO WE ARE NOT GOING TO MOON NOW?????? uh oh lbj Guys "I Love Lucy" is cancelled
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 February 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
man, poor vaughan meader
― J.D., Friday, 15 February 2008 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Robert Frost has also died :-(
RIP Big Poet.
(btw best ilx thread ever)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh this is so sad. Puts our grumbles about the snow into perspective.
I wonder how David Frost will cover it on TWTWTW.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 15 February 2008 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's hope they don't make the mistake of going all gooey and sentimental, like getting Millicent Martin to sing "Three Bells" or something.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
guys... this totally sucks. :(
― chaki, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Phil Spector Christmas Album now going for £2.99 on Amazon...
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or have all the radio stations stopped playing music?
Are Gerry and the Pacemakers "Merseybeat"? What's a Mersey?
― 2for25, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Good riddance to another vapid, mindless celebrity.
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, February 15, 2008 11:30 AM (0 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― n/a, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't want to be the one to call out the instant canonisation here, but this guy was kind of a dick in South America, remember?
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, I bet the Americans bomb Cuba to fuck over this - we could be in the early days of World War 3 already :(
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
At least the suspect is safely in police hands
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
US radio stations USELESS!
A nation in MOURNING and all they can do is play BLAND POPIST PAP by fly-by-night NME hypes like the BEATLES!
Systems thinking can solve this mess - all radio programmers to be SACKED and REPLACED by AWARE PROACTIVE programmers with full knowledge of diverse music spectra including developments in HARD FORMALIST ORNETTECORE, VARESE SPUNKWAVE and TRAD FADELA.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
TRAD FAVELA even.
In the light of this, I think all competitive sport should be suspended immediately. I can't see the point in continuing with a triviality like the current English football season.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the games must go on...we're all PATRIOTS now...
― henry s, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
LIVERPOOL THRASH ARSENAL 5-0 TO WIN LEAGUE
Benitez Given Job For Life; Police Talk Wenger Down From Archway Bridge
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man now I'm really bummed out, although I hadn't even checked out that much Kennedy. Any recs?
― Hurting 2, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
any word yet about a JFK Memorial design competition?
― henry s, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Again? Didn't he die like a year ago or something? Something there is that doesn't like the grave.
― Casuistry, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Police correspondent Alex Drake quipped "it's all a dream, I'm in 1963world" at a special press conference.
"Don't try it" added 34-year-old British tourist and witness to the shooting John Ravenscroft.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Ummmm hi? Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 16 February 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It will take Billy Joel to put this into some sort of meaningful context for me.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
guys my roomate's uncle Abe was there and had his home movie camera.
he just uploaded this to youtube:
***warning: not for the faint of heart***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg07N9OrKW8&feature=related
― gr8080, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
uh hello we are in mourning here, no grody fake video, your uncle max is a real L7
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it's a shop i've seen a few blah blah pixels blah
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
off-topic but if any of you ever go down to Dallas, there's a strip joint called The Carousel you should check out.
― gershy, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yo is it true kennedy got sonned by a wite kid after a cuba beef??????
― murderdogger, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
why'd they take him to Parkland did he not have insurnce
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
What's that white stuff Jackie's so desperate to collect? OMG he was smuggling drugs in his head for the mob!
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative
This is totally fucked up. They have the suspect of the biggest crime of the century and he's not protected. Makes me think that someone wanted him shut up because he could name the people who were bankrolling him. I don't buy it that he was a lone nutjob, it must be the Soviets behind it.
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of the political blogs are now claiming there was a second gunman, up on some grassy knoll somewhere. Mentalists as far as I'm concerned, that'll never stick.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
(meta note: This thread is dangerously close to starting an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination, CIO.)
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
It is an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination! Have you had blinders on in the past few days, you fucking beatnik?
As far as those conspiracy theories, I heard that someone told all the Jews to stay out of Dealy Plaza on Friday.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
white is black and black is white
― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0707/jfk_style_0702.jpg
― Eazy, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, guys, let's put down the Carling Black Label and face facts, this guy was only human and just as corrupt as the rest of our presidents...except for FDR, Wilson, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Teddy - now they were some infallible guys with no skeletons in their closets.
Kennedy was a hothead with next to no policy experience who nearly got us into the next Big One just a few months ago - or have you knuckleheads already forgotten in the rush to make him the next Marilyn Monroe? Now there was a death worth bemoaning - someone who really stood for America in a way you could get behind. If we ever even hear the name Kennedy in politics again I'd be very surprised.
The only consolation for all this hand-wringing is that Johnson has got his head screwed on straight. I'm counting on him to follow up all the empty promises of Kennedy's presidency with real change; we should be okay so long as he doesn't get us entangled in any military quagmires. (The rubes are talking about Indochina but anyone with any understanding of geopolitics should understand that the next big fight is going to be over the Finnish border.) 'Nuff said!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
This is bumming me out, but I'm not going to completely despair. I think there's a lot of promise in his little brother Bobby.
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Has someone from Europe blamed the US' right to bear arms yet? Let me be the first then!
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link