christian burchard of embryo died on jan. 17
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
Bob Smith, first out gay comedian to appear on The Tonight Show, of ALS
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-smith-pioneering-gay-comedian-writer-dies-at-59-1076420
I took an improv class with Bob in 1985; he was sweet, acidic and very cute. I would've hit on him if I'd been gay then.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, what a shame, they played in London recently - or maybe they're scheduled to play? Anyway, I have got some Embryo on my mp3 player, so can listen to them today - I'm at my mum's this weekend. RIP Christian.(xp)
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 January 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Steve Nisbett, Steel Pulse drummer
https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/steel-pulse/news/view/steve-grizzly-nisbett-passed-away-founding-member-of-steel-pulse/
― i am a skinematographer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 January 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
Bob Wakelin, creator of instantly recognisable art for a generation of Brits and designer of the Ocean software logo.
RIP Bob Wakelin - Any 80's gamers will be familiar with his iconic covers. pic.twitter.com/uOtlRWcv9l— Stu Wood (@DigitalWood) January 21, 2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 21 January 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
"A couple of times the guys at Ocean said to me 'Look Bob, this game really isn't very good so we need an extra special cover.'
I suppose I should feel guilty for it."
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
Howard Lew Lewis, best known as Elmo in Brush Strokes but also one of the main cast in Maid Marian and her Merry Men.
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/54752/howard-lew-lewis-1941-2018
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Aw :(
― Madchen, Monday, 22 January 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Hugh Masekela
https://www.timeslive.co.za/tshisa-live/tshisa-live/2018-01-23-breaking-legendary-musician-hugh-masekela-has-died-report/
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 07:55 (six years ago) link
Oh man, RIP hugh
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
RIP, he was a legend and had an amazing life
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
simon “tinky winky” barneshttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52
― maura, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Mary Lee Berners-Lee
― Madchen, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Girl From the North Country
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
aw RIP Mary Lee Berners Lee and Bob Wakelin (only just seen that post)
as a child I studied the Rainbow Islands box art in great detail and decided that, since Taito was a Japanese company and the colourful big-eyed box art seemed vaguely like the Euro-Japanese coproduction cartoons imported to mid/late-80s CBBC for my daily viewing, the signed name "Wakelin" must clearly be Japanese, pronounced wa-ké-lin
it took many years to realise that this was quite a silly thought
https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Bob_Wakelin
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
I missed the France Gall post too :(
Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Ursula K Le Guin
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
oof, RIP
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture
― faust apes (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
fuuuuuck
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
The worst of news. RIP.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.
RIP
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.
Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
yeah, what a hero. earthsea books, with the amazing Tehanu reprise, were formative for me. Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven also, later on. RIP. wonderful writer.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
I’m so sad about this loss.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
I really hoped she'd make it to 100. RIP and thanks for changing the world for the better.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
damn, RIP
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
I only read this a few months ago (and only picked up Earthsea trilogy from a friend for a reread yesterday). RIP
https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/leguin/carrier-bag.htm
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:52 (six years ago) link
Careful when invoking his name in this thread.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
Nah, there will be a ton of ilx revives first.
This thread would be the last place it gets mentioned
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
Lari White, country singer, 52.
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/lari-white-now-i-know-country-singer-dead-at-52-w515694
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link
What would be a good starting place for Ursula?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:33 (six years ago) link
the lathe of heaven
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:40 (six years ago) link
Jeremy Inkel from Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly. Only 34.
http://www.post-punk.com/jeremy-inkel-of-frontline-assembly-has-passed-away/
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
Thanks flappy
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
The other bumped thread worth reading through for recs stevie
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:25 (six years ago) link
Ah, thanks for the tip-off Dmac!
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
Author Jack Ketchum.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Mark E Smith
The day I've been dreading. "It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Mark E. Smith. He passed this morning at home.... 1/2— Fall news (@fallnews) January 24, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Oh fucking noooooo
― faust apes (NickB), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Fucking shit fucking shit fucking shit
:(
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
oh shit! that would explain the show cancellations over the past month. RIP.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
Ski filmmaker Warren Millerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/obituaries/warren-miller-ski-bum-turned-filmmaker-is-dead-at-93.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 January 2018 08:22 (six years ago) link
Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker:
https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/01/27/mort-walker-r-i-p/
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 27 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
sorry to hear about ol' mort -- beetle bailey had a good run and could be quite funny back in the day. jeet heer on twitter just pointed out that he was the very last cartoonist personally hired by william randolph hearst.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 28 January 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
"hang on a minute, oh ffs these are the wrong screws"
― calzino, Sunday, 28 January 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
John Morris, composer of most Mel Brooks films
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-wqGbamZc
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link