Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Russia’s space agency says pioneering Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, has died at age 84.

Roscosmos said Bykovsky died Wednesday, but it didn’t state a cause of death.

Bykovsky was one of 20 Soviet military pilots in the first group picked to prepare for space. He first flew to space in June 1963 as a member of the Vostok-5 crew.

He underwent training for a moon mission before the United States won the race to the moon and the Soviet Union canceled its plans to go there.
Bykovsky made his second space flight in 1976 and his third in 1978. He spent nearly 21 days in orbit in all.

wow air https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/28/business/wow-air-scli-intl/index.html

Liverpudlian duo Her's and their manager in a car crash in US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/members-and-tour-manager-of-liverpool-band-hers-killed-in-us-car-crash

Agnès Varda

:(

I suppose she couldn't live forever ;_;

☹️

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-shane-rimmer-dead-voice-14202785

Shane Rimmer, with one of the most magnificent and varied acting careers.

Don't know the band Her's, but the story is horrible. Having done both, I'd rather sleep in a parked van than drive in the night after a gig every time and I hate when I get outvoted on that. The accident was pretty clearly the other party's fault, but there are fewer drunks on the road in the morning.

The last time I drove that stretch of I-10 in Arizona late at night, the driver of a truck-trailer fell asleep at the wheel fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median-strip, and head-on'ed into a SUV going the other way. We got there 10-15minutes after it happened and everything was still on fire - 3 dead. I'd sleep in the van too.

Sad about Pugmire, had just heard last week that he was in a hospice. I did wonder if he was suffering from something new because he was seeming very slow in his youtube videos. He had earlier brushes with death and seemed to surprise himself with his productivity after that. I'm sure I'll hear more details soon enough.

i hate driving late at night, anytime after midnight. i think lonely interstate driving at that time is reasonably okay, but on city streets and freeways and wide-open suburban roads it's pretty dangerous. especially in L.A. and the surrounding counties. every other day there's a wreck and five people die.

geoff harvey

Nipsey Hussle, Grammy-Nominated Rapper, Shot Dead in L.A.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nipsey-hussle-grammy-nominated-rapper-shot-dead-in-l-a-815476/?fbclid=IwAR2SPPiyvj6zzLG-S1g_etKl2qf2B3j-RzpTHscAj37ygFd5pqi2Z0TP1Zs

Ken Gibson, first black US mayor of a Northeast city (Newark)

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/03/ken-gibson-newarks-trailblazing-mayor-and-the-first-black-mayor-of-a-major-northeast-city-dies-at-86.html

T Mallet

Bloody hell I thought that was going to be Timmy Mallett for a moment, don't do that to me

SF author Vonda N. McIntyre, 70

http://file770.com/science-fiction-author-vonda-n-mcintyre-official-obituary/

House legend Kim English

https://youtu.be/uuPKsth-zwg

Shark house legend Bill Heine

Bill Heine, the man who in 1986 stuck a giant shark on the roof of his terraced house in Oxford, has died. He fought planning officers all the way to the top for the right to keep it. The government's final ruling is thing of beauty. https://t.co/dpgRGxFrN1 pic.twitter.com/XG8xIIwoz2

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) April 3, 2019

obit thread not generally the place for a lol, but lol

doo doo doo doo doo doo

The people’s champion

Architect/Curator Francois Perrin dies at 50

https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/3/18292807/francois-perrin-architect-obituary?fbclid=IwAR34H78r0WR2MIN6UAmuBx5i37ZK4a3Jk0rsPzDbv0EkxBc7W4L26LPdQIo

According to Twitter, journalist / writer Pete Cashmore. The name wasn't familiar to me, but it seems he wrote quite a lot of things I liked and I hadn't made the connection until now.

the mashable founder?

this guy - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/petecashmore

yeah the mashable founder

No, a guy from Wolverhampton who worked for NME and men’s mags.

Oh shit, it's the Pete Cashmore who was also part of the UK battle rap scene. RIP.

oh, he's talked about his mental illness quite a bit - in the graun once i seem to remember - and must be only in his mid 40s. shouldn't speculate i suppose but sad in any case

https://pitchfork.com/news/tiger-merritt-vocalist-guitarist-of-morning-teleportation-dead-at-31/

Pete Cashmore on not being the other Pete Cashmore. RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/nov/21/pete-cashmore-successful-namesake-twitter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Shawn Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpbPiu8xpA

former Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, 97, opponent of both civil rights legislation and "porn rock"

what is porn rock and where can I find it

it's all around you

Porn rock landed on us

...in 1985. (thx to Tipper Gore)

Senator Hollings began the proceedings by noting that the only redeeming social value he detected in “porn rock,” as he called it, was that its words are “inaudible.” “It’s outrageous filth,” he went on, “and we’ve got to do something about it…. If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would.” He said he had asked “the best constitutional minds” around to see if the stuff could be legally outlawed.

“The framers of the First Amendment never considered broadcast airwaves that could pipe this stuff willy-nilly into homes,” Hollings said.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-censorship-big-brother-meets-twisted-sister-100136/

(icymi, he was a Democrat)

porn rock piped willy-nilly

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way" – Classic or Dud?
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly

is anyone itt surprised to learn that a conservative nut senator from south carolina, first elected in 1949, was a democrat?

Wait until Dnesh Dsouza finds out

well Doc some ppl may not have the historical background

he ran for prez in' 84, dropped out after NH... and endorsed Gary Hart!

also a fair number of Dixiecrats had switched parties by the '80s

So the PMRC and “porn rock” were a Democrat thing? WTF were they thinking???

Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.

see also three strikes, "super-predators," welfare reform etc.

Shocked to learn that Okwui Enwezor died on March 1. He one among the preeminent art curators in the 21st century, and his projects and writings are responsible for vastly expanding discourses on post-colonial and global politics in art: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/okwui-enwezor-dead.html