Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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I loved learning that Phylicia Rashad (and an unwitting Denzel Washington) were early mentors.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 August 2020 14:00 (five years ago)

😭😫..

#RIPChadwick pic.twitter.com/rJdr5CyJhz
— Im_DKG🆅 (@Im_DKG) August 29, 2020

― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 29 August 2020 14:04 (five years ago)

This death is hitting much harder than usual, given all of the attendant circumstances. And given how, IME, kids are so into Black Panther in particular.

― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 29 August 2020 14:57 (five years ago)

Boseman was a skilled, charismatic actor who specialized in inhabiting black icons and died too young in a surprising fashion. That is gonna fuck people up under the best of the circumstances but, in a moment where the senseless death of young black men is so prominent among a sizable segment of daily media and life, the too-soon death of the Black Panther just feels cruel.

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 29 August 2020 15:47 (five years ago)

This photo gives me joy.

https://www.firstladyb.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-1.32.28-PM.png

Rashad's one of my straight crushes.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:14 (five years ago)

ulysses otm

― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Saturday, 29 August 2020 17:56 (five years ago)

We are going to join the stress test of the streaming services by watching BP at 8pm tonight

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 29 August 2020 18:10 (five years ago)

Yibambe!

― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 August 2020 18:13 (five years ago)

Spike Lee posted this clip of Boseman singing “God is Love” and oh man

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEeU-fTnUB5/?igshid=12c0tn4vxfbem

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 20:35 (five years ago)

dammit

Breaking my twitter silence to share some beauty. This was one of my final texts from the brilliant & once-in-lifetime talent, @chadwickboseman - take this in & celebrate life. He knew how precious every moment was. Tonight the Heavens received one of its most powerful angels. pic.twitter.com/Hj8Cb1IfZS
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) August 29, 2020

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 August 2020 21:34 (five years ago)

gonna watch 5 bloods tonight

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 29 August 2020 23:38 (five years ago)

Very fucked up by this news.

RIP.

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 30 August 2020 01:31 (five years ago)

Phew.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-director-ryan-coogler-pens-emotional-beautiful-tribute-to-chadwick-boseman

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:44 (five years ago)

Beautiful. And heartbreaking.

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 August 2020 18:31 (five years ago)

ABC is airing Black Panther and some sort of Boseman tribute special this evening.

― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 30 August 2020 19:23 (five years ago)

Content, composition and training, these are the components needed for a good photograph: Jürgen Schadeberg always spoke of this concept and applied it to his work. A passionate photographer, courageous and with a humanistic eye – he has now passed away at age 89.#Leica pic.twitter.com/L3LWA8TrMW
— Leica Camera AG (@leica_camera) September 1, 2020

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:37 (five years ago)

A couple more Boseman remembrances/celebrations worth the read:

https://www.gq.com/story/chadwick-boseman-appreciation

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/chadwick-boseman-forever-1844904087

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:51 (five years ago)

Michael B Jordan posted a v heartfelt remembrance of Boseman on Instagram yesterday

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkpoYcgi43

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 16:59 (five years ago)

Erick Morillo, 49.

― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:27 (five years ago)

RIP

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:33 (five years ago)

Circumstances are pretty dark:

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/09/01/dj-erick-morillo-found-dead-in-miami-beach/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 22:11 (five years ago)

oof, I take back my RIP

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 22:33 (five years ago)

You'd like to remove it, remove it?

― this is my clean tone (NickB), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 22:52 (five years ago)

jesus

― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 22:54 (five years ago)

Kang Kek Iew aka Duch, Khmer Rouge torturer, murderer and war criminal who later converted to Christianity in hopes of atoning for his 'sins'. He was 77.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 01:46 (five years ago)

(Speaking of Jesus.)

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 01:47 (five years ago)

Legendary Baseball Pitcher Tom Seaver

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 September 2020 01:00 (five years ago)

Been out all day, just heard this. I became a fan during the 1970 WS, so I missed his glory season by a year. At least until Clemens/Maddux/Martinez/Johnson (and more recently Kershaw), the greatest pitcher of my lifetime as a fan.

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 01:53 (five years ago)

david graeber :(

Yesterday the best person in a world, my husband and my friend .@davidgraeber died in a hospital in Venice.
— Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky) September 3, 2020

― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:40 (five years ago)

what? and how? and why?

― this is my clean tone (NickB), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:46 (five years ago)

RIP :(

― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:48 (five years ago)

fuck!!!!!!

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:48 (five years ago)

"Bullshit jobs", as a concept, has been very very handy to me in terms of broaching labor politics and all kinds of other subjects with co-workers and acquaintances whose political orientation (or much more often lack thereof) I have no knowledge of. So thanks for that DG

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:56 (five years ago)

oh no, RIP :(

(appreciating any book/article recs as I'd been meaning to read more of his work)

― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:59 (five years ago)

I always appreciated that, despite his academic background, his books (the two I've read anyway, Debt and BS Jobs) are low on jargon and accessible without being (or feeling) dumbed down. That's a rare gift.

― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:07 (five years ago)

Jesus CHRIST 2020 can you STOP

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:54 (five years ago)

I’m barely halfway through bs jobs aarrggh

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:55 (five years ago)

I often saw him pottering about the SCR at LSE, reading the Telegraph in what I can only assume was a "know your enemy" kind of way. He will be sorely missed.

― Neil S, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:04 (five years ago)

he was posting on twitter wednesday lunchtime, then he's gone. A sudden unexpected death like that is always a bit of a shock.

― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:11 (five years ago)

Bassist-composer Gary Peacock; collaborated with, among others, Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, many ECM artists.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:47 (five years ago)

Ah fuck, one of the ECM greats. I loved the synergy between him and Paul Bley above all. RIP.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:51 (five years ago)

yep he was a class player and some of them Bley albums he's on are among my alltime ECM faves. RIP

― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:59 (five years ago)

RIP Gary Peacock.

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:19 (five years ago)

RIP

― Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

Damn

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:43 (five years ago)

Oh shit

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 September 2020 22:58 (five years ago)

Now it appears the reports on Gary's death may be a hoax, which indeed would be good news!
— Annette Peacock (@_AnnettePeacock) September 5, 2020

???

― this is my clean tone (NickB), Sunday, 6 September 2020 08:29 (five years ago)

Somebody better tell Jack DeJohnette.

― Quit It And Hit It Sideways (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 September 2020 13:26 (five years ago)

I hope it’s a false rumor.

― Boring, Maryland, Sunday, 6 September 2020 15:17 (five years ago)

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/jiri-menzel-dies-czech-director-oscar-1234761137/

Director/actor Jiri Menzel, 82. Closely Watched Trains is probably his biggest title, but don't miss Larks on a String.

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 7 September 2020 00:02 (five years ago)

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