Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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sorry too soon. but 96 is a fine innings

― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:09 (six years ago)

Been basically annoyed by him for the best part of 30 years now, but will miss him anyway.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:11 (six years ago)

I hate that damned show, but when that smug twat Mitchell replaces him it will be even worse! He was excellent in Mr Jolly Lives Next Door tbf.

― calzino, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:14 (six years ago)

Honestly I haven't been able to listen to it since he decided some time in the 90s that "deviation" meant "making a joke" and that every dispute could be fixed by alternating "benefit of the doubt" which just made for decades of boring radio. Williams, Jones and Nimmo being dead obviously didn't help, their attacks on him were the best part of it. Afraid to say the future host JAM is most likely the dreaded Brandreth IMO, Mitchell would be a bit better, not that I would listen to it anyway tbph.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:23 (six years ago)

all 9 circles of hell = being trapped in a leaky reeking portaloo with Brandreth + Mitchell for eternity.

― calzino, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:30 (six years ago)

Been basically annoyed by him for the best part of 30 years now, but will miss him anyway.

^this

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 11:59 (six years ago)

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LwJlOfNHT0

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 12:02 (six years ago)

R.I.P. Jack Burns. George Carlin’s first comedy partner, early Second City alum, head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show, hosted in the second season of SNL, announcer for Fridays...the list goes on. Ugh. 2020 is a such a bummer so far. pic.twitter.com/OLbBtfYUfL
— That Week In SNL (@ThatWeekInSNL) January 28, 2020

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 17:01 (six years ago)

Hubert Mingarelli, French writer. He was 64. RIP.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:30 (six years ago)

screenwriter Harriet Frank Jr., most associated with Martin Ritt films like Hud, Norma Rae, Conrack

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harriet-frank-jr-dead-oscar-nominated-screenwriter-hud-norma-rae-was-96-1219562

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:29 (six years ago)

Mexican environmental protestor

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 30 January 2020 08:34 (six years ago)

Mexican environmental protestor Homero Gómez https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51304857

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 30 January 2020 08:34 (six years ago)

Hmm. My mom was going to be in Mexico next month on a monarch pilgrimage, I wonder how much of this will be/is on her radar.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:44 (six years ago)

Television titan Fred Silverman https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/arts/television/fred-silverman-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:48 (six years ago)

Wes Wilson, Iconic Psychedelic Poster Artist, Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wes-wilson-psychedelic-poster-artist-dead-obituary-945946/

― nickn, Friday, 31 January 2020 03:57 (six years ago)

oh man RIP
Wilson had so many legendary posters <3

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 31 January 2020 04:09 (six years ago)

Wes Wilson, Iconic Psychedelic Poster Artist, Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wes-wilson-psychedelic-poster-artist-dead-obituary-945946🕸/🕸

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 31 January 2020 06:34 (six years ago)

Huh? I didn’t post that!

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Friday, 31 January 2020 06:34 (six years ago)

John Belushi as Fred Silverman

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hnbgq

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2020 17:18 (six years ago)

Wolfgang Dauner apparently. Three weeks ago. Dude responsible for a lot of great music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Dauner

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Friday, 31 January 2020 22:03 (six years ago)

Mary Higgins Clark, 92

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bestselling-author-mary-higgins-clark-dead-at-age-92/2020/01/31/8fa330c8-449e-11ea-99c7-1dfd4241a2fe_story.html

― Alba, Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:25 (six years ago)

Ed Stroud, 57 year old Atlanta guitarist who played on TLC’s “Waterfalls “ and a bunch of Outkast songs has passed away

https://www.soultracks.com/story-ed-stroud-dies

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2020 03:39 (six years ago)

awww rip Mary

havent read her in a long time but went through a big MHC phase at one point

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 February 2020 04:26 (six years ago)

for a while i had this idea that if i ever wrote a commercial as fuck novel, it would be a harlequin romance narrated by martha washington.

then i found out MHC's first novel was a romance between the washingtons. great minds etc

― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 1 February 2020 07:51 (six years ago)

Andy Gill of Gang of Four.

Andy Gill. pic.twitter.com/DHNCz5lAe6
— GANG OF FOUR (@gangof4official) February 1, 2020

― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:13 (six years ago)

Aw, only a few months after the other Andy Gill passed away as well. RIP.

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:16 (six years ago)

Damn, RIP

― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 1 February 2020 17:18 (six years ago)

Damn, All-Time Guitar Hero. RIP

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:21 (six years ago)

Fuck, man, no way!!!!

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:23 (six years ago)

Fucking helll that's sad

― ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:31 (six years ago)

Talk about yer actual guitar heroes ;_;

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:34 (six years ago)

RIP

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Saturday, 1 February 2020 18:38 (six years ago)

Peter Serkin, American classical pianist, 72. RIP.

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Sunday, 2 February 2020 09:24 (six years ago)

Lila Garrett, TV screenwriter (Bewitched, All in the Family, etc), anti-war activist, hosted political radio show Connect the Dots on KPFK, Los Angeles (Pacifica Radio)

― Josefa, Sunday, 2 February 2020 16:02 (six years ago)

Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/ivan-kral-author-of-dancing-barefoot-song-dies-aged-71?fbclid=IwAR1diQ95pTWQ8PYNKTP7uYN71Io1nl-tqavJ_b5z4ZOVRSDsvqdIyy0UH18

i did not know this but he co-wrote Ask the Angels and Dancing Barefoot w/ Patti among others.

― dan selzer, Monday, 3 February 2020 01:12 (six years ago)

RIP

― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Marat/Sade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 February 2020 01:26 (six years ago)

Not another one. RIP Ivan.

― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 07:06 (six years ago)

Lila Garrett had the typical for Pacifica horrible for radio voice but i never knew her tv background. RIP

― buzza, Monday, 3 February 2020 08:50 (six years ago)

George Steiner

RIP George Steiner who died today at age 90, whose “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation” was a seminal book for so many of us translators. https://t.co/YI6IkCCWWU
— Asymptote Journal (@asymptotejrnl) February 3, 2020

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:46 (six years ago)

Damn. RIP.

― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:48 (six years ago)

still retweeting as recently as yesterday :(

― mark s, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:50 (six years ago)

RIP, that's sad.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:55 (six years ago)

Monique van Vooren

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/monique-van-vooren-dead-actress-tarzan-she-devil-batman-dies-at-92-1274182

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 20:10 (six years ago)

A link for Josh in Chicago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/mexico-second-monarch-butterfly-sanctuary-worker-found-murdered

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 07:13 (six years ago)

Daniel Arap Moi, who seemed to be president of Kenya forever.

― ShariVari, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 11:13 (six years ago)

'70s TV producer-director Gene Reynolds, 96

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gene-reynolds-dead-mash-lou-grant-director-producer-was-96-978156

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:28 (six years ago)

Straightjacket Fits guitarist Andrew Brough

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2018732703/straitjacket-fits-guitarist-andrew-brough-dies

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:34 (six years ago)

Kirk Douglas

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:30 (six years ago)

oh fuck
he lived long enough to see trump exonerated

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:34 (six years ago)

103!

― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 23:35 (six years ago)

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