Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

middle east historian/neocon tool bernard lewis

richard goodwin, JFK/LBJ/RFK speechwriter + spouse of doris kearns:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/613062729/richard-goodwin-crafter-of-johnsons-famous-we-shall-overcome-speech-dies

Robert Indiana, whom you may know from the

LO
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sculptures

Alas, the heroic pop art generation dwindles further.

Philip Roth

https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/philip-roth-in-the-new-yorker

Wow, a big one. Last of the big ones? One of the last.

6'6'' western star Clint Walker (Cheyenne, None But the Brave, The Dirty Dozen)

Glenn Snoddy, the guy who invented the fuzz pedal.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8457662/glenn-snoddy-nashville-engineer-inventor-fuzz-pedal-dies-96

Fucking Rest in Fuzz brother

RIP, where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?

if they'd have found a way to use his fuzz pedal for committing genocide, he'd have been a major contender #trenchant

Pretty sure My Bloody Valentine weaponised it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4DpIenJiU

where was the Nobel Prize for this guy?

http://www.vintageguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/DALLAS-FUZZ-FACE-01.jpg

gaming youtuber and noted gamergate cretin john bain, aka totalbiscuit, dead at 33 from cancer

it's sad, he was interested in ethics in gaming journalism

heaven needed another asshole

heaven needed an asshole, so it gave john bain bowel cancer because death sometimes has a sense of humour

pitch black lols

I’ve never heard of him before today but part of me wonders if one of his final regrets was that he was an adult human male known to most of those who knew him at all as “totalbiscuit”.

Zero Man Total Biscuit

I’ve never heard of him before today but part of me wonders if one of his final regrets was that he was an adult human male known to most of those who knew him at all as “totalbiscuit”.

You've never met Colonel Poo.

His Wikipedia article sure glosses over the Gamergate shit.

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean ;_;

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean

All the feels

“Alan and I have been best friends for 55 years — ever since the day we became astronauts,” said Walt Cunningham, who flew on Apollo 7. “When I became head of the Skylab Branch of the Astronaut Office, we worked together and Alan eventually commanded the second Skylab mission.”

“We have never lived more than a couple of miles apart, even after we left NASA. And for years, Alan and I never missed a month where we did not have a cheeseburger together at Miller’s Café in Houston. We are accustomed to losing friends in our business but this is a tough one,” said Cunningham.

Ted Dabney, Atari co-founder and engineer of Pong and Computer Space
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-26-atari-co-founder-ted-dabney-dies-aged-80

"Conrad, Gordon and Bean
Forgot their washing machine
So they scrubbed on their nose and they scrubbed on their toes
And that's the end of
Conrad, Gordon and Bean"

© Some schoolkids in Windsor, 1968 or thereabouts

Begs pardon, 1969.

Were you one those kids?

. Mmm hmmm

Line three was mine

And he's still writing songs to this day.

Some things never change

You've never met Colonel Poo

Ouch.

Stewart Lupton of Jonathan Fire Eater? seeing some tweets but no news yet

https://www.stereogum.com/1998342/jonathan-fireeaters-stewart-lupton-dead-at-43/obit/

Ouch. Hard living.

Read the bio and did not realize/retain the fact that the other three members started the Walkmen. Makes their story 3/4's less depressing.

http://www.metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/anal-cnt-guitarist-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-an-escalator/amp

You fell off an escalator and died
You were always a little clumsy
Or maybe just drunk
And now you're dead so it doesn't even matter
Poseur idiot loser
You suck
You suck
You suck
You shop at the mall
Not anymore

Broadway-TV-film actress Allyn Ann McLerie, who I remember from a handful of Sydney Pollack films, All the President's Men and "The Tony Randall Show." She'd been around long enough to have played Ray Bolger's girlfriend in Charley's Aunt. Didn't know she'd been married to Adolph Green and George Gaynes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/allyn-ann-mclerie-dead-wheres-charley-they-shoot-horses-dont-they-actress-dies-at-91-1115247

Doors Biographer Jerry Hopkins Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/doors-biographer-jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82-w521066

kate spade :(

i just heard that! :(

Apparent suicide says the beeb.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44374844

Metal guitarist Ralph Santolla (Death, Obituary, Deicide, Iced Earth, others) isn't dead yet, but he's been in a coma since last week and has been taken off life support.

Haven't seen anyone else mention Glynn Edwards, British TV actor (although of course he was in Zulu and played a policeman in a couple of Confessions films).

(Sorry about the paywall, only online obit I can find.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/06/05/glynn-edwards-played-dave-barman-minder-obituary/

Frank Carlucci, NSA/CIA/DoD "operator" (asshole buddy of Cap Weinberger)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/frank-carlucci-defense-secretary-and-tamer-of-federal-bureaucracies-dies-at-87/2018/06/04/1e34535a-67f9-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

Malcolm Morley, painter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44371397

Jerry Maren, last adult actor who played a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, 98.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/jerry-maren-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-obit

Misread that and wondered how many other Munchkins could've possibly detoured into adult films.

Mary Wilson, wife of Harold of Milnsbridge - only 102. that's no age at all these days, fuck this year etc!

peter stringfellol