Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Yeah. I hope he learned all he wanted to about the Moon

RIP. That reminds me of him talking about getting used to Americans and their positive attitude since they always seems to be “over the moon.”

RIP Denis LePage. What a sad turn of events for him. Thanks for the great tracks.

Prigozhin apparently.

Terry Funk RIP

Droz died in June - not a good summer for the Beyond The Mat cast.

RIP Terry, the scene in Beyond the Mat where the doctor tells him his knees should have crumbled to dust years ago and he kinda shrugs will forever pop into my head every time I'm complaining about a mild ache or pain.

RIP

I went to a screening of Beyond the Mat in London a few years ago and during the scene where Terry says he's retiring a ripple of laughter went through the audience

Sadly it's finally true

Loved the story in Foley's autobiography where he was hyped to finally get to wrestle Terry and find out the secret to how his punches always looked so amazing, and then promptly found out that they were legitimate skull-crushing live rounds, Funker saying to him after the match in his gentle, sad voice "oh Cactus, and you thought I was just that good all along"

<3

deeper magic from before the dawn of time

Conspiracy author Daniel Hopsicker, 72. Wrote the book Barry & The Boys that was the basis of the Tom Cruise film American Made and lots more about shady Florida pilot schools, the intelligence community, and cocaine smuggling.
https://www.madcowprod.com/2023/08/23/a-great-journalist-has-passed-daniel-hopsicker-july-16-1951-august-22-2023-r-i-p/

David Jacobs, TV writer and producer who created the nighttime soaps Dallas and Knots Landing, 84.

John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82

Unfortunately no one had the right software to edit his obituary

I converted his tombstone from a Word doc

just needs to make an (enfocus) pit stop on his way to pre-press heaven.

Bad week for wrestlers.
Windham Rotunda, better known by his ring name Bray Wyatt, 36.

Hold on are you telling me his real name was Windham Rotunda?

indeed, he's a 3rd generation wrestler and Barry Windham is his uncle

Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist and communist who spent most of her life in China

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/21/isabel-crook-obituary

Good Morning…I’ve just woken up to the awful news that my old friend & former Snake Bernie Marsden has passed. My sincere thoughts & prayers to his beloved family, friends & fans. A genuinely funny, gifted man, whom I was honored to know & share a stage with
RIP, Bernie XXX pic.twitter.com/KXwsDEICN6

— David Coverdale (@davidcoverdale) August 25, 2023

RIP Bernie, an early star of the 'Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do' thread with this stone classic:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbfGjV62W1nfo2QRV7yXXhO3lun4fDPB0hrGas-ScpzsH_0Fg&usqp=CAc

Bob Barker, per TMZ. 99!

thought he would never. RIP.

RIP to the legend Bob Barker.

Watched so much The Price is Right growing up and rented “Happy Gilmore” countless times from Blockbuster to watch the Adam Sandler fight.

The Barker-Sandler reunion in 2015 is unreal. pic.twitter.com/YU8f7QFT7j

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) August 26, 2023

Who won that fight? I don’t remember

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) August 26, 2023

I made that same joke in the “still alive” thread a few days ago

No one thought it was funny when I said it bc I’m not a professional comedian

Although tbf Louis Virtel is hilarious and everyone should follow him

people please remember he was a sex pest. I literally grew up watching The Price Is Right, too, but let's not go too far with the "he taught me to be weird" encomiums

Arleen Sorkin, the original voice and model/inspiration for Harley Quinn on Batman: The Animated Series

https://comicbookmovie.com/batman/batman-animated/original-harley-quinn-actress-arleen-sorkin-dies-at-67-a205283

apologies Josefa, I missed that

That's OK it was a dumb joke

I made that same joke in the “still alive” thread a few days ago

I made the same joke on twitter 4 minutes before Louis did, but tbh anyone with a working knowledge of The Price Is Right who thought about the news in combination with his age for 30 seconds could arrive at that general punchline. It's weird to see so many people on multiple platforms acting like it's the greatest joke ever told. It writes itself!

The Days of Our Lives clip included in that Arleen Sorkin obit is truly something else

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

They definitely don't make them like that anymore...

https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/

Whoa

oh fuck no

I like the Winnipeg weather update in the clip-- I assume -12C is a typical April day

I just Kranky post the news of Brian McBride. A sad shock.

:(

Fuck

Just miserable

Hate unexpected early exits. The world’s a lesser place without him.

John Kezdy of the Effigies?

I know this may be an easy tee for some, but still:

John Kezdy was a hero of mine. Effigies were the first great band from Chicago's scene, his stern, declamatory style influenced a generation and he helped me in material ways. Not overstating to say that without John and the Effigies, I would never have made any records.
🎈

— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) August 27, 2023

Music Producer & Strangelove Bob Feldman

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bob-feldman-dead-songwriter-producer-1960s-1235400747/

Feldman is survived by his two daughters, Kyle and Mahri. He is also the biological father of actor Corey Feldman, who emancipated himself from Bob and his mom Sheila as a teenager.

RIP 2 THIS GR8 SONG WRITER...WHOS NOT MY FATHER! HOWEVER MOST OF MY LIFE ITS BEEN INCORRECTLY WRITTEN AS IN THIS LONG OBITUARY ARTICLE WHERE IT AGAIN ST8S HE WAS MY DAD...HE WASNT! RIP 2 DUDE WHOS WRITING PARTNER WAS GOLDSTEIN MY MOMS LAST NAME. SO BIZARRE https://t.co/dNy1CGUEpA

— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) August 26, 2023

In fact his father was Morton Feldman