^^Two Years Ago. It's been going around again.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
jesus my blood ran cold there for a second
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
Being Dead Stinks
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
j. geils: dead and loving it
― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
damn it
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
FWIW, I've probably seen that link shared more over the past few days than I did when it actually happened.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
my dad got tricked by the J Geils thing the other day.... and these obituaries, we keep tabs on them. we play games. and I think about this
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link
Alan Garcia, who was President of Peru for ten years (iirc) has shot himself rather than getting arrested in a corruption probe.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-latin-america-47965867
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
Watergate burglar Janes McCord (in 2017 but just reported now)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-mccord-jr-watergate-conspirator-who-linked-break-in-to-the-white-house-dies-at-93/2019/04/18/11c2082e-6195-11e9-9ff2-abc984dc9eec_story.html?utm_term=.ab19488ddd41
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 April 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
Manga writer Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf & Cub, Hanzo the Razor, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman), 82 (pneumonia).
― The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
I don’t read comics so had no idea those were all written by the same person!
― mumsnet blvd (wins), Friday, 19 April 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
8( i have a 3ft pile of his manga.
(LW&C books are currently £2 each on comixology btw. there are 28 of them, over 8000pp total)
― koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
I had no idea he was still alive! And now I miss Martin Skidmore.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
wrote lots of golf manga as well. but i don't think this ever reached a western audience.
― koogs, Friday, 19 April 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
Just saw this. I do read comics but basically zero manga. Koike's work, though, is an exception because it's exceptionally good.
― Joan Lunden just stole your laptop and I didn't even try to stop her (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 April 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Just saw that disco producer Don Ray died last month.
― visiting, Friday, 19 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
truly surreal that it took two years (!!) for anyone to get around to noticing that a major figure in the watergate scandal had died.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
lyra mckee, journalist, 29 years old
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 20 April 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
RIP, responsible for some great tunes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
Billy McNeill
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41685748
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
German actor Hannelore Elsner has died at the age of 76. Best known for her performance in the 2000 film 'Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go)', and deserved better roles than she usually got on German TV.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/nachruf-auf-hannelore-elsner-16153863.html
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
just found out last week that Tom Goodkind (of the NYC bands US Ape and the Washington Squares) died a couple months back
http://www.tribecatrib.com/content/tom-goodkind-activist-and-band-leader-was-local-renaissance-man
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
Ken Kercheval
https://www.thewrap.com/ken-kercheval-dies-dallas-actor-cliff-barnes/
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Ted Kelsey, one of the great unintelligible radio actors and also Baron Greenback in Dangermouse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48036700
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor, 87. RIP.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
He was a fine Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe in Tous les matins du monde. Such a wonderful film (and novel).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
Mark Medoff, playwright of Children of a Lesser God
David Picker, United Artists exec who helped get the film careers of the Beatles and James Bond rolling
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
man someone sure is busy today
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Dick Rivers, French rocker.
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
Fred Foss, DC jazz sax player and flutist who started in NY and played with Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente, Hugh Masekela and more has died (per Facebook and twitter)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
This was mentioned on I Love Basketball, but it should be here too:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/john-havlicek-celtics-legend-who-stole-ball-dies-79-n998771
His career box shows amazing consistency in virtually every category, especially games played: from 71 to 82 every season for 16 years, no partial seasons. Looks like he never had an injury.
― clemenza, Friday, 26 April 2019 05:10 (five years ago) link
Michael Wolf - only 64, one of my favourite photobooks is his (now rather expensive unfortunately) one on HK.
Michael Wolf: The man who found beauty in megacities
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12978/production/_106625167_dd7351c9-41e2-4539-9ff9-9c2666fd4d98.jpg
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
Appropriately huge lol.
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Josef Šural, Czech footballer.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/josef-sural-death-czech-footballer-killed-minibus-crash-alantaspor-player-killed-kayserispor-dies-a8890641.html
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 07:05 (five years ago) link
[Appropriately huge; lol. Just got to tidy that up for you
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
And make my own mess ...
John Singleton
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
Jesus, that's rotten
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Monday, 29 April 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
other reports saying he hasn't died but is very seriously ill.
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 29 April 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48091417
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
Singleton being pulled off of life support today. Only 51.
https://t.co/Xcy5fsrxrV
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
bummer; he had a lot more to say.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Stop-motion animator Bruce "The Amazing Mr." Bickford, 72. Did some great work with Frank Zappa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqp71DOJ3aY from 2:39 on, but Inca Roads is great, so watch the whole thing.
― WmC, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
Who's left? Craig, Clark, Wallace, Auld, Lennox, Fallon (sub gk).
Beaten home and away by Dundee Utd in that quintuple season so, y'know, couldn't have been *that* good.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
Michiro Endo, singer for seminal Japanese punk band The Stalinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OMoHX7qzA
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
xp. the arabs also beat barcelona home and away that season
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
Boon Gould, founding guitarist w/Level 42
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca himself:
https://www.facebook.com/thewookieeroars/posts/2375211675851881
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
ahhrrrrrrr i p
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
"Uncle" Russ Gibb
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8509569/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-paul-is-dead
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link