Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

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http://gerryalanguilan.blogspot.com/2017/11/sleep-paralysis.html

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:15 (six years ago)

If I recall correctly he also did a bunch of work writing about and curating Filipino comics (or komiks) history and original art.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 21 December 2019 23:11 (six years ago)

Sorry for only knowing about that smile he did :(

StanM, Sunday, 22 December 2019 06:57 (six years ago)

what smile

insecurity bear (sic), Sunday, 22 December 2019 10:07 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/c5iFk6G.gif

StanM, Sunday, 22 December 2019 15:53 (six years ago)

there's more info below that obit I linked to above (his "Hey Baby" video from 2009 etc)

StanM, Sunday, 22 December 2019 15:54 (six years ago)

British character actor Tony Britton.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50885272

So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Sunday, 22 December 2019 17:05 (six years ago)

Designer Emanuel Ungaro, age 86

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50886433

Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 22 December 2019 18:39 (six years ago)

Ram Dass, 88

Davey D, Monday, 23 December 2019 05:40 (six years ago)

That’s a shame. He had been speaking a lot about preparing for death.

I really like some of his radio phone-in audios from the early 70s. They show his best side: empathetic, sensitive, gentle, providing helpful advice and accepting of people.

I sometimes heretically think that if you ignored some of his guru and “gee-wizz” miracle stuff (which wasn’t to my personal taste), he was a great therapist of any kind - religious or non-religious.

Luna Schlosser, Monday, 23 December 2019 08:10 (six years ago)

Junior Johnson, NASCAR driver played in a pretty good movie by Jeff Bridges

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 December 2019 21:53 (six years ago)

RIP Richard Alpert

xp I don't think that's heretical at all, he always renounced any idea that he was a guru or even remotely close to "finished." He readily copped to having a schtick—that really he was just a Newton, MA jew who was lucky enough to be lit up by psilocybin and then to find a guru of his own.

He was also smart enough, where Leary wasn't, to grok that acid was a cul de sac. Instead he parlayed the experience into a spiritual mission, which he also knew (and warned adherents) could act as a trap. He spent the last decades of his life woking with dying people, and now he's joined them.

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 23 December 2019 23:12 (six years ago)

Dave of Big Black

nathom, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:46 (six years ago)

midnight funk association membership now officially lapsed :(

calzino, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:52 (six years ago)

what? Oh no!

Runcible Spoonman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 23:55 (six years ago)

Riley worked as an assistant audio engineer for George Clinton's stable of Parliament-Funkadelic bands. He is credited on albums Trombipulation and The Electric Spanking of War Babies. He also occasionally served as a session musician for his friends

never knew this or that he'd had a major stroke in '93.

calzino, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 00:00 (six years ago)

Wrote so many good songs. And the Friends theme.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 12:10 (six years ago)

Had no idea she co-wrote What Have I Done To Deserve This? I'm guessing it was the Dusty part.

Alba, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 13:05 (six years ago)

Yep. Tennant wrote the verses, Lowe the chorus.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 14:06 (six years ago)

lyricist behind the Howard the Duck soundtrack with Thomas Dolby.

https://youtube.com/YLMUTqlGNZ4

☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 14:14 (six years ago)

https://youtu.be/YLMUTqlGNZ4

☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 14:15 (six years ago)

Claude Régy, French theatre director. He was 96. RIP.

pomenitul, Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:35 (six years ago)

Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor. He was 84. RIP.

pomenitul, Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:54 (six years ago)

Sleepy LaBeef

The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 December 2019 20:33 (six years ago)

Jerry Herman

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2019/12/27/535371796/broadway-legend-jerrry-herman-is-dead-at-88

Alba, Friday, 27 December 2019 12:18 (six years ago)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-herman-dead-broadway-composer-lyricist-hello-dolly-was-88-1141052

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyYx7mTEsU

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 12:36 (six years ago)

George Michael’s sister. :-(

nathom, Friday, 27 December 2019 15:30 (six years ago)

muckraking journalist Bill Greider

https://www.rollingstone.com/author/william-greider/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/12/27/william-greider-political-writer-dead-83/2755289001/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 16:39 (six years ago)

Peanuts TV producer Lee Mendelson

https://padailypost.com/2019/12/27/lee-mendelson-executive-producer-of-peanuts-tv-specials-dies/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:59 (six years ago)

This one is strictly for US ILXors: racist radio talk show host Don Imus.

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 27 December 2019 22:41 (six years ago)

loooong overdue

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 23:07 (six years ago)

Whoa

Can't wait to hear what Howard has to say

flappy bird, Friday, 27 December 2019 23:19 (six years ago)

Good riddance.

dan selzer, Friday, 27 December 2019 23:20 (six years ago)

Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5J7OeY8lx4

flappy bird, Saturday, 28 December 2019 00:12 (six years ago)

*George Costanza voice* That's a shame.

Josefa, Saturday, 28 December 2019 00:48 (six years ago)

Sue Lyon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/movies/sue-lyon-dead.html

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 December 2019 02:25 (six years ago)

Fuck Don Imus, good riddance

Οὖτις, Saturday, 28 December 2019 02:39 (six years ago)

hell yea shakey
rip sue Lyon tho

flappy bird, Saturday, 28 December 2019 05:03 (six years ago)

RIP. She’s in the classic Night of the Iguana

The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 December 2019 05:11 (six years ago)

also John Ford's last film

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2019 07:03 (six years ago)

Don Imus was king until Howard Stern blew him out of the water. Imus scrambled ever after, courting favor with NY/DC insiders who felt that Imus gave them street cred. They tolerated his racism until it became too much. Lesson? Keep your racism on low. Don't be obvious. pic.twitter.com/zp8xMGu4Xy

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) December 27, 2019

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 December 2019 07:03 (six years ago)

Alasdair Gray: https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/
Sad news.

Tim, Sunday, 29 December 2019 10:57 (six years ago)

Ah, shame, RIP Alasdair.

Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 11:32 (six years ago)

i saw him read once, a very long time ago. seemed like a good guy.

Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 December 2019 11:43 (six years ago)

RIP fat Glaswegian pedestrian

Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Sunday, 29 December 2019 11:50 (six years ago)

Shame about his response to the queasy Hillhead Station mural.

Madchen, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:07 (six years ago)

bloody hell, that was a bit of rum business.

calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:10 (six years ago)

Oh bloody hell I am reading Lanark again at the moment, prompted, I have to say, by the thought that he couldn't be long for this world. Massive RIP

Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:23 (six years ago)

Very sorry to learn about the mural. I didn't know about that.

Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 13:26 (six years ago)


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