Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Rosalynn Carter, 96

Need a 97 now

Joss Ackland

RIP. Another thread regular gone.

poor jimmy

Wow, I just started watching Lethal Weapon 2

Forgot that was him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDIF3XhXTT8

<SPOILER ALERT>

today he was finally too old for this shit

Damn, Rosalynn always seemed like a decent and classy person. If she was secretly evil, please don't tell me.

Catherine Christer Hennix:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz4rWoXObOu/

Waitress and Psychedelic Fur Mars Williams, also known for assorted jazz/free jazz activities. Chicago regular.

RIP Sara Tavares, Cape Verde/ Portuguese singer/ guitarist dead from a brain tumor at 45

Annabel Giles, UK 1990s TV person

another brain tumor

Apparently was married to Midge Ure through most of the 80s

emmanuel le roy ladurie (94)

Artist and screenwriter, Linda Salzman Sagan, who designed NASA’s Pioneer Plaque and was a member of the team that created NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Message, second wife of Carl Sagan and mother of their son, Nick (Clinnette Minnis), and grandmother of Zoe, has died at 83. We… pic.twitter.com/gtWFzfmppa

— CarlSaganDotCom (@carlsagandotcom) November 23, 2023

(Not to be confused with Ann Druyan, his widow, who was also in charge of recording the golden disc (the Voyager Interstellar Message) sent with Voyager, and allegedly recorded his laugh for it - dude had a type and/or a period of maximum attractiveness)

emmanuel le roy ladurie (94)

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I need to get around to reading Montaillou and Carnival In Romans...

Russell Norman, restauranteur, 57.

Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to the moon, Frank Borman, 95.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/frank-borman-commander-of-the-first-mission-to-orbit-the-moon-has-died/

His NASA oral history interview (PDF) is pretty hardcore. He was one of the first people into the remains of Apollo 1 after the fire. Years later as CEO of Eastern Airlines, he was one of the first into the Everglades after the crash of Eastern 401.

RIP

Terry Venables. Manager of Spurs back when I still cared.

Wow, RIP El Tel

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_uxzNny54A

Literally found out emerging from Seven Sisters tube. RIP Tel Boy

thats unexpected

Marty Krofft

only really known in the UK for Banana Splits, we didn't get any of the other weirdness.

My biggest Krofft exposure was the Krofft Supershow, with Electra Woman and Dyna Girl and Wonderbuggy and all that. Spent Saturday mornings watching that for a couple of years.

(xp) HR Pufnstuf was shown over here - well it was in Scotland anyway.

yeah i have very faint memories of it

RIP Marty

HR Pufnstuff was such a huge part of my early tv memories, watching that and Banana Splits felt like a portal into a whole other kind of television, nothing else looked or sounded like it, or had such genuine good vibes. <3

RIP. Don’t forget the truly trippy spinoff Lidsville, with Jack Wild AND Charles Nelson Reilly.

Sorry, but Jack Wild, Butch Patrick.

Not

The Krofft Superstars show (Sigmund etc.) Was a touchstone of my youth. But if any sensible sober human had ever thought for one single second about it...

Nope. No way. What the fuck. It made no sense whatsoever.

Caught fleeting glimpses of Pufnstuf growing up and it terrified me. However, one of my earliest TV memories was watching D.C. Follies with my dad when I was 4 ish years old. I didn’t get most of the references but I liked the puppets. Bought it on DVD a year or two ago and for something so dated, it held up kinda well (Fred Willard is always appreciated).

RIP

Teletubbies and Yo Gabba Gabba are somewhat analogous in this category.

After that, YouTube became a really reliable source of deeply absurd entertainment allegedly aimed at children.

Podcast: The Ride did a good episode about their shortlived themepark

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cnn-krofft-amusement-theme-park-atlanta-georgia

had no idea about Pryor's Place with Richard Pryor, need to track that down.

Very sad news from Martin Atkins on Facebook that Kevin Walker aka Geordie from Killing Joke has passed, only 64.

https://pitchfork.com/news/killing-joke-guitarist-geordie-walker-dies-at-64/

ah no way

Rest In Peace, Geordie.

Sorry for you loss, Alex in NYC. Was Geordie ever on any of these periodic lists of Greatest Guitar Lists? If not, he absolutely should have been.

Blossom Toes guitarist Brian Godding, also of Centipede and (for a short time) Magma, 78.

https://dmme.net/goodbye-brian-godding/

Played with Kevin Coyne and Annette Peacock too.

Mamadou Sanou (Baba Commandant) instrumentalist / singer with his Mandingo Band who toured the world a lot in 2023 passed away in his home town of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. All we know at the moment is, a fatal bout of malaria was the reason.

Jean Knight. Thank you for the stone-cold guaranteed floorfiller <3