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
Jah Stitch, the 'original ragamuffin'
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/02/original-raggamuffin-jah-stitch-pioneering-reggae-vocalist-dies-aged-69
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 3 May 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
:(
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 06:46 (five years ago) link
a bit amazed at the attention paid to peter mayhew, an actor whom few could pick out of a lineup
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
but the way he stood there
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
When you play a character that well known over the course of 40 years nobody really cares what the actor looks like. That's not what he got paid for.
(Also "few" is doing a lot of work there. SW fandom is not some tiny niche of people.)
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
he appeared at a lot of fan conventions & was very fan-friendly, even as his physical health waned - i think that probably accounts for the recognizability factor too
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
I didn't realize just how tall he was--7'3''!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
all my words do a lot of work
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/YEP00Z36T3tZrQq--rg52gIH0qY=/0x0:2200x1418/920x613/filters:focal(924x533:1276x885)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63725216/peter_mayhew_chewbacca.0.jpg
Ned has let himself go a bit.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Friday, 3 May 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Hey man, you never know how that beard's gonna look until you let it grow all the way in.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
xpost -- See here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Where? We can't see it Ned
― Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
So sad.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:29 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he played a big role in our childhoods
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 3 May 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Art Kunkin, founder of the LA Free Press.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2019/05/03/l-a-free-press-founder-art-kunkin-recalled-alchemist-life/3658911002/?fbclid=IwAR2YKUPeHvsaTcbHnydmTgNN2pGl43tzzYypWb_MPAl6ku2V57kAc7aRMt4
― nickn, Monday, 6 May 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Freddie Starr
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-freddie-starr-dead-comedian-15022018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 May 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
Jim Fowler, Host of 'Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,' Dies at 89
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jim-fowler-dead-mutual-omahas-wild-kingdom-host-was-89-1209218?fbclid=IwAR0zfoE-42bJ3PGC-USB4ieQfxqNFVCnAwKG1Jvn0gQMsIytm1Wu82j002o
― nickn, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
will always think of Fowler as the guy who showed up w/ animals who pissed on Johnny Carson
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
“I’ll be sitting here in the tent with a banana daiquiri while Jim artificially inseminates an angry yak...”
― suzy, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Jerome Ackerman, who stood at the heart of L.A.'s Midcentury Modernism movement, dies at 99
https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jerome-ackerman-designer-craftsman-dead-20190509-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1RIo55bGwRi6NwLu1-26McN3kbjiOJFfbO960lqJ5WAKuq-SGMiu4uOa8
― nickn, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
Peggy Lipton:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-peggy-lipton-dead-20190511-story.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
Damn RIP
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
Bummer
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 May 2019 05:02 (five years ago) link
Alvin Sargent, screenwriter of Straight Time, Paper Moon, Ordinary People et al
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48238573
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 12 May 2019 06:13 (five years ago) link
This is horrible and sad...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/may/12/silver-king-wrestler-and-nacho-libre-star-dies-at-london-show
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 10:22 (five years ago) link
RIP. Is that Janeane Garofalo standing behind him in that Jack Black Instagram?
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
Brian Walden
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
... people you thought...
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link