Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

No, Mr Trump, I expect you to die

https://i.imgur.com/GuIfpQB.jpg

I feel bad not having a clue who Howard Johnson is despite him playing loads of classics like Liberation Music Orch and Mama Too Tight. RIP

Eve Branson, Richard’s mother - COVID.

Celia Humphris of UK folk-rock band Trees, also the voice artist for London Underground station announcements in a later, startling career move.

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/celia-humphris-trees-rip.1046874/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2GHHCLFTM

oh ffs

RIP

I feel bad not having a clue who Howard Johnson is despite him playing loads of classics like Liberation Music Orch and Mama Too Tight. RIP

I have a ton of records Howard Johnson plays on (Mingus, Dixon, Hill, Rivers etc.) but honestly when I heard the news I immediately jumped to see if he was the tuba player who'd worked with Arthur Blythe on so many records. He was not; that was Bob Stewart, who's still alive.

Did you ever see him live?

Don't think so.

Here's a link to a post where an interview with him is linked: The dog trots freely thru the Rolling Jazz Canto Thread 2016

He had such a great attitude from everything I read.

Sheldon adelson

Oh boy.

his only regret is that he didn’t make the world even worse

it sez he was a casino magnet, cheating fucker!

The world is a better place today.

Cellist David Darling. His recordings on ECM are all time beauties.
https://www.daviddarling.com/

Gay porn auteur Jerry Douglas: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2021/01/jerry-douglas/

Lol calzino

David Barclay, one half of the Barclay brothers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/01/12/sir-david-barclay-telegraph-owner-twin-frederick-built-vast/

Bit of a checkout day for rich right-wing arseholes!

Was going to say. Awful tribute here

Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve.

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 13, 2021

As I saw someone write on Twitter this morning, Barclay didn't believe in the UK enough to actually pay tax here

Hopefully these things come in threes, there are plenty of candidates.

Jessica Campbell, Tuba Girl from Freaks & Geeks and attempted spoiler candidate Tammy from Election.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/jessica-campbell-election-star-dies-at-38?

Wow...She's great in both (her F&G character was so ahead of its time).

RIP, two iconic roles

Awwwwww that sucks. I had a huge crush on her in my youth. RIP

That's awful, she was brilliant in Election, and so young!

oh fuck! RIP.

three-time olympic rowing gold medalist (for canada) kathleen heddle, 55

C. Grissom dug this up--love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Hnm8Z_E8k

Thud Rock Bassist Extraordinare Tim Bogert

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/tim-bogert-dead/

He was definitely on my “thought he died years ago” list. I like Cactus while simultaneously wishing they were half as good as they could have been.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErsiYJwXYAADZJs?format=jpg&name=small

Harold Bornstein
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-bornstein&pid=197497206

Nonsense. His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. If exhumed, Mr. Bornstein, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever resurrected.

When he's out of office Trump has two choices: never go to the doctor again, or find some other yes-man hack that is not legally (if secretly) obligated to make sure he stays alive because he's the President. He's going to go straight from getting medicine snuck into his breakfast cereal to getting prescribed huge doses of opioids from some pill mill.

is this like where the head vampire dies so all of the other vampires also die

Margo St James: feminist, sex worker activist - and private investigator.

Bad day for showmen:

Siegfried Fischbacher, half of large-animal magic team Siegfried & Roy, dies at 81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/siegfried-fischbacher-dies/2021/01/14/24d513f4-54e9-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

Gerry Cottle, circus showman and Wookey Hole Caves owner, dies of Covid aged 75
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jan/14/gerry-cottle-circus-showman-and-wookey-hole-caves-owner-dies-of-covid-aged-75

I do know who Margo St. James was after following the link, but when I saw Margo and sex in the same sentence, I thought at first it was Wade Boggs' paramour.

"large-animal magic team" was this written by a robot?

carnivorous feline conjuring partnership

biting-beast trick friends

lion manager

From a WGN article about Chicago's vaccine plans:

The city says the biggest problem its facing is not receiving enough vaccines.

“When I think about 600,000 people to vaccinate in that next phase, getting 36, 32, 35,000 doses a week isn’t going to be enough to move ahead quickly,” Dr. Allison Arwardy said.

This doesn't make me feel great. The "next phase" they are referring to is the 65+ older/essential workers phase (1B). So assuming 35,000 doses per week, it's going to take more than 17 weeks to get through that phase (assuming we ignore the second dose, for the moment). Considering this phase hasn't even started yet, we are looking at June before we even start to get to Phase 1C, which is other essential workers and high-risk folks under 65. We're in for a long, long, long ride.

Shit, sorry, wrong thread! Mods feel free to delete.

#onethread