Franco Columbu, bodybuilder who played second fiddle in Pumping Iron
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 22:08 (six years ago)
Peter Lindbergh
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:49 (six years ago)
LaShawn Daniels, in a car accident.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 19:02 (six years ago)
Ivo Malec, French-Croatian composer, professor and noted practitioner of musique concrète, 94. RIP.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 20:52 (six years ago)
RIP, I was listening to some of his stuff last week!
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 20:57 (six years ago)
Talking of emigrant combiners of live and electroacoustic sound: Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-US composer and 1971 Pulitzer winner for <i>Synchronism No. 6</i>, 85. RIP.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 22:49 (six years ago)
gnaaah html detected warning -> ideas for ilx
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 22:50 (six years ago)
Session Legend Jimmy Johnson
https://pitchfork.com/news/jimmy-johnson-muscle-shoals-session-guitarist-for-aretha-franklin-and-more-dead-at-76/
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 September 2019 02:03 (six years ago)
RIP
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 September 2019 02:05 (six years ago)
Carol Lynley
https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/carol-lynley-dead-dies-the-poseidon-adventure-1203325524/
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 September 2019 02:09 (six years ago)
She was in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal, which is an incredible film I just saw recently but can't recall who she played in it
― Josefa, Friday, 6 September 2019 03:11 (six years ago)
robert mugabe
future generations will never know what a philtrum is
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 September 2019 05:07 (six years ago)
wow, I’m reading a dissection of his reign just this week
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 September 2019 07:46 (six years ago)
(for the record, I dearly hope the sack of shit suffered like every one of his fucking victims)
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 6 September 2019 07:49 (six years ago)
Chester Williams, member of South Africa's 1995 rugby World Cup winning squad, heart attack at 49. Now the *fifth* member of that squad, if you include the coach, to die.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 6 September 2019 21:51 (six years ago)
Abdul Qadir, Pakistani leg-spinner legend
― calzino, Friday, 6 September 2019 21:55 (six years ago)
Bummer, RIP AQ.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Friday, 6 September 2019 21:59 (six years ago)
had to google what a leg spinner was. first thought involved double-jointedness.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 6 September 2019 23:31 (six years ago)
rip AQ
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 September 2019 23:36 (six years ago)
Google googly next (xp)
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 September 2019 00:16 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVG7wo4YWiA
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 7 September 2019 00:19 (six years ago)
Can it really be called a sport if there are a dozen seagulls on the pitch and nobody is bothered by that?
― koogs, Saturday, 7 September 2019 03:18 (six years ago)
They're incredibly excited - each seagull is worth 10 goals - but the rules strictly penalise showing it.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:57 (six years ago)
You don't get seagulls on the pitch in snooker
― Mark G, Sunday, 8 September 2019 08:37 (six years ago)
I've seen Cliff Thorburn
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 September 2019 08:40 (six years ago)
Peter Nichols, playwright.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/sep/09/peter-nichols-playwright-joe-egg-dies-aged-92
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Monday, 9 September 2019 14:28 (six years ago)
Rod Coneybeare, who played the giraffe and the rooster on Canadian kids' show The Friendly Giant.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-coneybeare-cbc-friendly-giant-1.5275900
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 9 September 2019 17:39 (six years ago)
RIP Jerome and Rusty, touchstones of my childhood.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Monday, 9 September 2019 20:38 (six years ago)
Guitarist Jimmy Johnson of the Muscle Shoals Stompers at 76
Johnson recorded w/ Aretha; & on cuts by Etta James (“Tell Mama”), Wilson Pickett (“Mustang Sally,” “Land of a 1000 Dances”), Paul Simon ""Kodachrome," “Loves Me Like a Rock”), Staple Singers (“I’ll Take You There," ”Respect Yourself"), Jimmy Cliff (“The Harder They Come”); Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music
https://www.al.com/life/2019/09/swampers-guitarist-jimmy-johnson-has-died.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 04:07 (six years ago)
Robert Frank, 94:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead.html
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:28 (six years ago)
Ahhh this one breaks my heart. Rest in peace, Robert Frank.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 16:48 (six years ago)
lee salem, who discovered or edited most of the major newspaper strips of the last few decades, including calvin and hobbes, the far side, cul de sac, and for better or for worse:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/04/legendary-editor-who-discovered-cathy-boondocks-guided-doonesbury/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 06:30 (six years ago)
Fred Herzog on the same day as Robert Frank
http://www.calgaryherald.com/cms/binary/7907352.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 16:03 (six years ago)
T Boone Pickens, rich guy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:41 (six years ago)
Celebs you didn't know...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:48 (six years ago)
daniel johnston?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:54 (six years ago)
Eccentric Austin singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58. https://t.co/E5Ntv0d9k2— Austin Chronicle (@AustinChronicle) September 11, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:55 (six years ago)
dang
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:59 (six years ago)
damn. RIP Daniel Johnston.
― I am also Harl (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:11 (six years ago)
Wow. I had no idea he was only 58, seemed to have been around forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:15 (six years ago)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:03 AM (four hours ago)
ok the thread has moved on but fred herzog photos of vancouver are probably my favourite vancouver artifacts. i walk down hastings street every day and it's interesting to compare the contemporary view with that neon-laden past of the strip depict in herzog's photos
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:24 (six years ago)
I was not familiar with Herzog, but I looked up a gallery of his photos and they amazing.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:33 (six years ago)
Screenwriter Mardik Martinhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mardik-martin-dead-raging-bull-mean-streets-screenwriter-was-82-1239079
― Alba, Thursday, 12 September 2019 04:25 (six years ago)
eddie money
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/eddie-money-dead-dies-1203334855
― mookieproof, Friday, 13 September 2019 14:24 (six years ago)
Dude was unrepentant about living his life large right up until the very end.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 September 2019 14:26 (six years ago)
Philippe Pascal, frontman of French post-punk bands Marquis de Sade and Marc Seberg. He was 63. RIP.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 14 September 2019 10:35 (six years ago)
Comics historian and fandom historian Bill Schelly, 67. We weren't close friends but we were close enough to say friends rather than acquaintances.
― WmC, Saturday, 14 September 2019 13:17 (six years ago)
Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who was fucking 75. I had no idea. Their first five albums range from solid to great, and he produced the Bad Brains' best album, Rock For Light.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 September 2019 00:28 (six years ago)
Wow. RIP.
― Our Borad Could Be Your Trife (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 September 2019 00:30 (six years ago)
Wow
― flappy bird, Monday, 16 September 2019 00:34 (six years ago)