Terrible.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
RIP to Roky
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/news/2019/06/leah-chase-new-orleans-matriarch-of-creole-cuisine-dead-at-96-family.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nolanews_sf&utm_source=twitter
Leah Chase, the 96-year old matriarch of Dooky Chase restaurant in New Orleans . She fed Presidents this century, and civil rights leaders and more last century (especially during Jim Crow years when they couldn’t eat elsewhere)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
RIP Ms. Chase -- great legacy there.
Portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler, who started out in comic books, dead at 92. File under 'people I didn't know were still alive.'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/everett-raymond-kinstler-portrait-artist-of-presidents-and-celebrities-dies-at-92/2019/06/01/b1544f7c-83d8-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html?utm_term=.fef646b8cf1b
― The Bite Game with Jim Lamprey (WmC), Sunday, 2 June 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Yeah I had assumed he died decades ago.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 2 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
NYC jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers, suicide at 37.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 3 June 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
I'm not familiar with his work, but this quote ...
“I don’t play a whole lot of flashy stuff,” he reflects. “Listening, that’s one of my biggest assets.”
...surely sums up what a great player/person he was. RIP.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 June 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Ugh. RIP
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
That Christopher Plummer portrait is in the players’ club
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 3 June 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
Someone who knew Leathers is saying on FB that it wasn't suicide, and pointed to this story.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 3 June 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
The NPR story has been updated - it was murder, and someone's been arrested.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Paul Darrow, best known as Avon in Blake's Seven but in lots of other things too...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48501099
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
aw fuck, RIP Leathers
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/06/03/last-survivor-of-sobibor-death-camp-dies-at-96/
Semyon Rosenfeld who is reportedly the last known survivor of Sobibor Uprising, although I've not seen Yehuda Lerner's obituary yet (impressive guy from Lanzmann Sobibor doc who was an escape specialist and killed a top SS commander with an axe).
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
Damn -- Dr. John.
https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_a962e500-8877-11e9-991d-2f4782c02ae0.html/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
damn! RIP.
― calzino, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
He's one of those cats I know next to nothing about. I know he was a session guy at first, right? But for some reason the rest of his career has always seemed to hover at the margins for me. I think I have a copy of Gris Gris, but everything else ... no idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, he was a NOLA session guy that went west in the early sixties.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
Kit Moon, mother of Keith Moon, at the age of 98...which means that she lived three times (and two years) longer than her son.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
;_; rip Mrs Moon <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
woah, watched her being interviewed in an oldish Who doc last week and wondered if she was still alive. Dear Boy is a motherfucker of a biog.
― Tiltin' My Lens Photography (stevie), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
We are deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Justin Edinburgh.Our heartfelt condolences and thoughts go out to his family and friends at this terribly difficult time as well as everyone that worked alongside Justin at Leyton Orient. pic.twitter.com/rFRZZYNuLa— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) June 8, 2019
Justin Edinburgh, Spurs FA Cup winner and Leyton Orient manager, at 49 after a cardiac incident earlier in the week.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Saturday, 8 June 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
Seeing on FB that Bushwick Bill (Geto Boys) has passed.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
As we first reported, Bill had a falling out with tour organizers ... feeling like they were exploiting his cancer diagnosis to sell tickets. He was especially bent out of shape with the mini-tour's title, "The Beginning of a Long Goodbye: The Final Farewell."Promoters pulled the plug on the tour on the eve of its launch. However, Bill told us he wanted to do a 20-city solo tour called "Phuck Cancer" ... and planned to donate a portion of proceeds to pancreatic cancer patients in each city.
Promoters pulled the plug on the tour on the eve of its launch. However, Bill told us he wanted to do a 20-city solo tour called "Phuck Cancer" ... and planned to donate a portion of proceeds to pancreatic cancer patients in each city.
sounds like he was working with some disreputable shits in has last year.
― calzino, Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
We've lost the brilliant music journalist and lovely man Andy Gill. He was funny, rude, intelligent and a great writer. xxx— David Quantick (@quantick) June 9, 2019
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Was just coming to post that :-(
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 9 June 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
not so fast re Bushwick Bill
UPDATE: Bushwick Bill’s publicist revealed that the rapper is “still alive and fighting cancer” in a hospital.➡️ https://t.co/eNNT9k7n9R pic.twitter.com/j9bsTqs2e5— Complex (@Complex) June 9, 2019
― Simon H., Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
Lol, was just trying to post that. Wtf is going on?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
he can't be stopped (or can he?)
― calzino, Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Geto Boys still wheeling him around that hospital. Get well, Bushwick!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 9 June 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
RIP Andy Gill (the other one).
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Media Matters journalist Simon Maloy. I don't know if I followed him on Twitter or that he was just retweeted a bunch by people I do follow, but I was very familiar with his face and perspective. a young man with young kids, absolutely heartbreaking.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill.[2][3] He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a dancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.
So, I guess..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
also has a nyt obit
they haven't gotten one wrong since Alan Abel
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Jaguar test driver Norman Dewishttps://jalopnik.com/legendary-jaguar-test-driver-norman-dewis-who-transfor-1835357196
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
Philomena Lynott, mother of Phil
https://www.hotpress.com/music/thin-lizzy-fans-mourn-philomena-lynott-died-22776429
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Word going around on social media that Sylvia Miles has passed.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
... people you thought ...
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
I have a Sylvia anecdote that ends with Jerry Lewis saying "I thought it was Bobby Morse in drag."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
Peter Whitehead
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/13/peter-whitehead-obituary
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 June 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
screenwriter/photographer Bill Wittliff
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Lonesome-Dove-screenwriter-Bill-Wittliff-13966561.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 June 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Director Franco Zeffirelli, 96
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48648278
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
people you thought were
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
seconded
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
btw I haven't seen any of his films, just the TV "Jesus of Nazareth."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
I saw Romeo and Juliet and Taming of the Shrew way back in middle school.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Saturday, 15 June 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
Ha, yeah, we saw the first one in school as well. Can't remember if it was middle school or first year of high school.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Romeo and Juliet was a permission-slip movie, because iirc ... boobs? Sex?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 June 2019 13:44 (four years ago) link
The downbeat ending?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
I don't think it was the (spoiler alert!) suicide, I do think it's because they sleep together and/or there is nudity.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link