Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

My wife tells me that when she was a child, Trix commercials struck her as needlessly cruel. The rabbit just wanted some cereal. It would have been harmless to let him have some.

― Immodest Moose (Ye Mad Puffin),

but the sugar

ugh, alan rankine.

Damn sad loss. I really appreciated how his teaching work and the creation of the Electric Honey label helped to pay things forward; even if I'm not a fan of acts like Belle & Sebastian and Snow Patrol, it's still good mentorship he provided.

Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham, 90. Wrote a pretty good tell-all about his NASA years The All-American Boys

RIP. Think that's one of the few nose cone histories I haven't read.

Worth checking out and iirc doesn't hold back on much of the behind the scenes politicking going on among the astronauts. Cunningham only flew once - he had the misfortune of having Schirra as his Apollo 7 commander. Try to get the second edition with a lot of typo/content fixes.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/03/tom-karen-designer-of-raleigh-chopper-and-marble-run-dies-aged-96

I met Tom Karen at a work event several years ago. He was squirrelish in his curiosity and kind in his conversation. It was before we had our son; I wish I could have told him the hours of joy our marble run has brought us.

Roger Kean, co-founder of classic UK 8-bit games magazines Crash and ZZAP 64:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/zzap64-magazine-and-crash-magazine-cofounder-roger-kean-has-died

Fay Weldon.

West Ham head honcho and one half of the 'Dildo Brothers' David Gold, 86

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/04/david-gold-joint-chairman-west-ham-dies-at-86

Cue champagne popping all over Newham

Lise Nørgaard, journalist, memoirist, and creator of the utterly brilliant and legendary-in-Scandinavia TV series Matador.

Gianluca Vialli

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/06/gianluca-vialli-former-italy-juventus-and-chelsea-striker-dies-aged-58

Wow. I had no idea he was ill. RIP.

Seeing on Facebook that Michael 'Wavelength' Snow has died

Fucking hell Vialli that's terrible

Yup seeing Michael Snow on twitter as well.

RIP Gianluca, awful news

Kenyan LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/06/africa/kenya-edwin-chiloba-lgbt-activist-death-intl/index.html

Character actor Earl Boen, best know for his role as the psychiatrist in the Terminator movies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/earl-boen-actor-in-the-terminator-movies-dies-at-81/ar-AA163iun

xp
rip Luca. he along with cavani are my benchmarks for what 'good movement' at the centre forward position should look like.

Vialli was kinda weirdly important to me -- when I finally got a chance to follow UK club football on any sort of regular basis via the Fox Sports two hour weekly show they had (or whatever network it was on) in the late 90s, Vialli was doing his Chelsea run, and he quickly became a favorite of mine via the various post-game interview clips thanks to his good humor and approach to it all. Between him and Pierluigi Collina let's hear it for the bald Italians.

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fucking horrific

Edwin Chiloba was an amazing human. He was bold, passionate, his energy was immaculate. He embodied fashion. Someone murdered him cruelly, put his body in a box & dumped his body.

Edwin we speak your name. May yr blood not spill for nothing. Stop killing queer people. pic.twitter.com/aSgwyTSqnM

— Njeri Wa Migwi™ (@NjeriWaMigwi) January 5, 2023

Heh. Mrs. Redd has often referred to Colina as “Squidward” due to his purported resemblance to a certain cartoon co-worker.
(xp!)

this Grenadian UK guy who was known as "Chicken" - christian name William - died the other day. He was a crook and a conman, but the most hilarious person I ever worked with. His son is known as "Young Chicken" in Brackenhall and had to live with the curse of being quite an average person!

Are we doing the death pool for 23 or tallying up who won 2022?

Were we still doing that?

I think last time, I had Mark E Smith on my list...

The last year that Henry Kissinger will be worth any points!

Character actor Earl Boen, best know for his role as the psychiatrist in the Terminator movies

Also did a lot of narration and voices for WoW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCr7y4SLhck

Russell Banks (announced by Paul Schrader on Facebook)

Adam Rich, ‘Eight Is Enough’ actor, dead at 54

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html

"As part of a satire on celebrity death, Rich participated in a 1996 hoax which falsely reported his passing, as written by “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave Eggers, for Might Magazine."

Owen Roizman, Cinematographer of The French Connection, The Exorcist and More, Has Died at 86

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/owen-roizman-cinematographer-of-the-french-connection-the-exorcist-and-more-has-died-at-86

Also seeing John DeVries of Agitpop

Singer Jeff Blackburn, of Blackburn & Snow and occasional Neil Young collaborator (The Ducks and most famously as co-writer of "My My Hey Hey (Out of The Blue)")

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLUs5rsBI9/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZGS99oRig

Poet Charles Simic:

We mourn the death of Charles Simic (1938–2023), who since 1999 wrote 175 essays and poems for The New York Review, on subjects ranging from Saul Steinberg to the Fourth of July to gun violence to Buster Keaton. https://t.co/uR7PCUTF5V pic.twitter.com/zomjn1wCUn

— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) January 9, 2023

Silk, of right-wing grifters Diamond and Silk.

wait was she not just hospitalized with Covid

Yep.

Wow! Very strange!

Diamond, not Silk

Trump announces that Diamond of Diamond and Silk has passed away pic.twitter.com/TUhpEVUPiG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 10, 2023

just came across this...her family, is already grifting off her deathhttps://t.co/kzHiBotMxU

— Art Martin (@gartmartin9) January 10, 2023

gofundme.com/DiamondsArentForever

New York Times writer (formerly of Politico) Blake Hounshell appears to have committed suicide. There's a Times email circulating on Twitter that says he "has suddenly died this morning after a long and courageous battle with depression."

Adolfo Kaminsky’s talent was as banal as could be: He knew how to remove supposedly indelible blue ink from paper. But it was a skill that helped save the lives of thousands of Jews in France during World War II. https://t.co/Lz9bYs38D4

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) January 10, 2023

Singer Luqman Brown, who worked with Burnt Sugar and had his own project, Dope Sagittarius. Apparently he had a heart transplant late last year and it didn't take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9St-uddBmT8

Simic was a beast of bleak, bizarre poetry.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-simic

Very subjective opinion there

OK

lolled pretty hard at that Sinatra gag

Comedian Shecky Greene has passed away. He was 97. Here he is on the cover of Night Life in Chicago Magazine, dated May 1955 where he performed at Chez Peree Restaurant in Chicago. R.I.P. #RIPSheckyGreene #RIPSheckGreene @sheckygreene pic.twitter.com/8T0Ifd8TBN

— Vanished Chicagoland (@vanishedchicago) December 31, 2023

Shecky played Christie Lane--a stand-up comedian and a stand-up guy--in what I usually name as my favourite bad movie, The Love Machine.

NASCAR's Cale Yarborough

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/sport/nascar-cale-yarborough-death/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwh4jqd6HMI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucSyo9yLLQ

British comics artist John M Burns, who drew everything from George and Lynne in The Sun to The Bionic Woman in Look-In.

Which inspired this Viz parody (nsfw) https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/13389387073

Sad coincidence of Richard Rampton, the brilliant lead barrister in the Irving v Lipstadt libel case, and Tom Wilkinson, who played him in the movie "Denial", both dying in late December, within days of one another.

— Sir Richard Evans (@RichardEvans36) January 1, 2024

RIP 2023, i never liked you anyway

Les McCann, 88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDMQqDUtv4

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Yikes!

Susan Backlinie, actress/stuntwoman featured in the opening of jaws

Dabney Coleman, 92.

Mods, please lock thread.

Wait wtf no

Dabney isn't dead. Why u lie?

LOCK THREAD

Ah I posted to the wrong thread didn't I

(it's may 2024, maybe we should lock the 2023 obit thread)

(oh there is a 2024 thread)

Rolling Obituary Thread 2024