Singleton being pulled off of life support today. Only 51.
https://t.co/Xcy5fsrxrV
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 17:51 (seven years ago)
bummer; he had a lot more to say.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:18 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Stevie Chalmers, only the guy who scored the winner in the '67 European Cup Final ffs.
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 (seven years ago)
Michiro Endo, singer for seminal Japanese punk band The Stalinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OMoHX7qzA
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:51 (seven years ago)
xp. the arabs also beat barcelona home and away that season
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 22:54 (seven years ago)
Boon Gould, founding guitarist w/Level 42
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 16:29 (seven years ago)
Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca himself:
https://www.facebook.com/thewookieeroars/posts/2375211675851881
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:35 (seven years ago)
ahhrrrrrrr i p
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 May 2019 22:53 (seven years ago)
"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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
:(
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 06:46 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
but the way he stood there
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:30 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
all my words do a lot of work
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:42 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
xpost -- See here.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:28 (seven years ago)
Where? We can't see it Ned
― Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:44 (seven years ago)
So sad.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2019 18:48 (seven years ago)
― 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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
“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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Peggy Lipton:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-peggy-lipton-dead-20190511-story.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:47 (seven years ago)
Damn RIP
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:53 (seven years ago)
Bummer
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 May 2019 05:02 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
Brian Walden
― calzino, Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:16 (seven years ago)
... people you thought...
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:01 (seven years ago)
My rotting brain has a memory of Walden asking John Smith (who is 25 years dead today) if that was his real name. Naturally I can't find any corroboration of this on the internet.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 May 2019 07:53 (seven years ago)
"I put it to.." *pointing at pol* was his frequent style of questioning, I think. I vaguely remember him calling someone "a weasel" once. It was a long time ago.
― calzino, Monday, 13 May 2019 07:57 (seven years ago)
Apparently Brian Walden was a brexiteer, which certainly proves... something.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 May 2019 08:01 (seven years ago)
Seems as good a time as any to post some Mountain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7Ab8tX590
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 13 May 2019 08:38 (seven years ago)
fuck me i thought he died 20 years ago
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2019 09:21 (seven years ago)
The other surprising thing, I put it to you, being he was only his mid-40s to early-50s when he was presenting Weekend World.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:04 (seven years ago)
Too much slow living...
― calzino, Monday, 13 May 2019 11:12 (seven years ago)
The oldest of Old Labour basically
― Doctor Nu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:14 (seven years ago)
Doris Day!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:05 (seven years ago)
She couldn't last for ever I guess.
― Alba, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:06 (seven years ago)
Kirk Douglas, watch your back.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:07 (seven years ago)
RIP Doris, does she not have her own thread?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:03 (seven years ago)