Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

I always got Scott Wilson confused with Clu Gulager.

Actress Celeste Yarnall.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celeste-yarnall-dead-star-trek-885728

Japanese composer Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers and the solo album Catch-Wave, a minimalist drone classic)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Stafford

Greg Stafford, creator of the fantasy world Golorantha and the setting for seminal RPG Runequest.

Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who sued North American Rockwell over the Apollo 1 fire in which he died

https://apnews.com/d90d71139414422e94774fb83ec167ec

aw Betty <3

talk about a flamekeeper.

i agree but uh that might not have been the first word i would have chosen :/

ugh fuck yr right

let’s just say the definition of steadfast

done

Paul Spudis, regarded as one of the most important lunar scientists ever.
https://spacenews.com/lunar-scientist-and-exploration-advocate-paul-spudis-passes-away/

Peter Brackley, the voice of 90s Italian football.

William Coors, right-wing beer mogul, at 102

Coors brewery workers struck in 1977 over many issues, including the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out employees who were gay or whose politics were considered radical.

lovely guy, hope he took some time to drink some of that fine stuff!

Paul Allen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/technology/wp/2018/10/15/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-and-billionaire-investor-dies-at-65-2/

I'm seeing Kat Arthur, singer of Legal Weapon. No link.

Wow Paul allen dying is kind of nuts considering his real estate company has been a big part of the construction boom out here. Wonder what’s gonna turn out to be in his will.

Maybe $1 billion to me

I hope it all goes to the Allen Brain Institute, that group has been doing some fine work and making their data freely accessible.

Allen is kind of a mythical figure to me - I worked at WSU, where he dropped out of after two years in the 70s and there were always rumors that he was on one of the private jets that would show up on home football game days.

And I don't know if it was amazing trolling or just weird timing, but Bill Gates gave the school $25 million for a animal health research building, and a year later Allen gave $26 and they ended up naming it after him.

One of the bad things Paul Allen did (long-ish, but mentioned at the end):

https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lost-hollywood-the-enchanted-hill-of-fred-thomson-and-frances-marion/

based on the rotation of costumes exhibited at Cinerama, he also owns…most Hollywood memorabilia. Like possibly most of it that exists.

Wouldn't anything in the property rooms of any Hollywood studio have been in one or more movies? So, it might just be memorabilia of some forgettable short feature from 1936, but it would still be "Hollywood memorabilia".

$26?

rip paul allen, who will play shreddin' blues licks on your obscenely giant yacht now

iirc he was a respectable guitarist!

Favorite comment on video of Allen shredding: "Warren Buffett is better than Steve Vai any day."

Arto Paasilinna. Finnish writer, best known for The Year of the Hare. RIP.

Dennis Hof, owner of the Nevada brothel the Bunny Ranch. I met him once, for work.

“Less than 24 hours ago, Hof celebrated his birthday along with pornographic actor Ron Jeremy, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist.”

how can hell top that. i ask you

lol, I just made the same joke on the US politics thread. I suppose hell for this guy would be more like being trapped in a library

I would be happy to be that librarian.

his first question: do you have any books w boobs in them

I would take my time in responding.

*hands over the complete Mencken*

In Spanish.

Milena Dravić, of WR: Mysteries of The Organism fame.

https://criticsroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism-still-526x295.jpg

xposts: He grossed me out in the Cathouse tv show. Yuk

xp aw RIP

NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf0QQ1LzqiM

Walter Huddleston, Kentucky Democrat who lost his Senate seat in '84 to Mitch McVader

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/former-senator-walter-huddleston-dies-92

Rashod Ollison, a truly great music writer and presenter of his own work. His appearances at the Pop Conference were wonderful.

translator anthea bell

I wish ppl posting in the rolling obituary thread would link to obituaries for these interesting sounding people

i wish ppl reading the rolling obituary thread knew how to use a search engine

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/18/anthea-bell-obituary

The term translator seems insufficient in this case. A great

thanks that's a good one, what a career. I want to read that Tomcat book

Arkansas raised, Virginia -based music critic and author Rashod Ollison, mentioned above, died from cancer at 41. His writing about Aretha, Chaka Khan, and more was special.

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_9ea7895e-d31e-11e8-a7e0-bb75fff0a8b1.html