Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

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

lol, I mean I guess it's not a far stretch from the outbreak thread to the obituary thread.

Pittsburgh's Action News 4 has confirmed that Joanne Rogers, wife of Mr. Rogers and a behemoth in her own right, has passed away at age 92.

It's a sad day in this neighborhood.

May she rest in peace.#WTAE pic.twitter.com/DFczBq0wvZ

— David Kaplan (@DKaplanWTAE) January 14, 2021

Seeing reports on FB that Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls passed yesterday.

oh shit really?

link?

I think links are coming. Discussion I saw was in a private group taken from another private group containing people who would know.

...and that stuff was only about an hour ago.

does leave Johansen as the last new york doll standing now?

DaJo is it. Sylvain actually wrote a bit of his early solo stuff.

Syl Sylvain, 1951-2021. The heart of the New York Dolls, responsible for the best of David Jo's solo material, and his own records were unfailingly soulful. Truth and Soul-that was the name of Syl’s fashion line and an apt description of his music too. Sleep well, baby doll. pic.twitter.com/7pWQ8jyFge

— Bob Mehr (@BobMehr) January 15, 2021

RIP

fuck. RiP Sylv

Prolific TV actor Peter Mark Richman (formerly Mark Richman)

John Reilly of US daytime TV fame.

TMZ reporting Phil Spector has died from Covid-19.

what a shame

Expect many awkward obituaries to come.

Exactly what I was thinking too...musically, huge.

Gosh. Up til death, possibly the most important, most influential horrible living musician?