Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Yeah, exactly..

'Maybe have a referendum after each mass-murder' (nobody)

John Cygan, actor in "The Commish" and several video games

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-cygan-dead-commish-actor-was-63-1003999

"I'll let you go out in STYLE!"

good riddance to bad rubbish re Ian Brady.

rip threads really not the place vg, critical reappraisal of his work is best done elsewhere

lol

saw that Ian Brady had died and I immediately thought of ailsa bc she always picked him in the dead pools I ran

good riddance to bad rubbish re Ian Brady.

I never liked him either

Thing is, people die, and they all rest in peace.

Unless you are of the belief they potentially suffer in the afterlife, etc.

There was Jimmy Savile, resting nicely, until all the stories broke so they dug him up, destroyed his memorial headstone/plot, and chucked his remains, I dunno where... next to the main line through Clapham Junction? Noisy enough for you Jim?

I immediately thought of ailsa bc she always picked him in the dead pools I ran

Yep. Top of the list of people I never felt bad about picking because, y'know, evil bastard.

I never liked him either

― in a soylent whey (wins), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 07:54

My favourite recent post

Rhodri Morgan

Chris Cornell!

BREAKING: Chris Cornell, lead singer for rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, has died, his rep says

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 18, 2017

OH GOD 2017 STOP TAKING ALL THE GENIUSES

Damn, Soundgarden was gonna play a theatre here Thursday week, and I was thinking of going based on recent ILM reports re:their current live show.

roger ailes

Good.

Well, yeah.

Fuck yeah

rupert next

maybe all the news reports were saying "roger ails" all along, and subeditors kept fucking it up

i think it's fair to say that rupert takes much better care of himself than human/hutt hybrid ailes ever did, not that i won't leap for joy when murdoch finally succumbs

gone too late x

Thanking u yet again, bizarro.

ha, yr welcome

Anyone have him in Dead Pool?

woohoo

Good fuckin riddance. Died in disgrace, as he deserved.

I didn't think much of Soundgarden either, but that's a bit strong.

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

ah celebrities

Sorry to hear about the passing of Roger Ailes. He and I shared many laughs He was always very nice to me and I counted him as a friend

— Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) May 18, 2017

I don't know who those particular people are, but that tweet reminds me of Limmy (the Scottish comedian) habitually tweeting made-up platitudes after well-known figures' deaths, for which he got into trouble with regard to Ian Brady the other day. He had to delete said tweet this time, but I think the above helps illustrate at least part of what his long-running joke may be.

"Had the pleasure of meeting x at a charity do once. (S)he was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny."

http://www.avclub.com/article/human-boil-roger-ailes-mourned-online-ceaseless-pa-255595

Slug-like sexual predator and architect of today’s broken political discourse Roger Ailes died this morning, disgraced and unemployed.

so glad people aren't holding back with this guy.

Dave Cutler, the last of Adge's siblings. That's a very regional and specific onr.

Saw a report on FB that Creem's Richard C. Walls has passed on.

Aww, bummer. Was a huge CREEM fan growing up. Still got a few around here. Definitely remember his name, not hitting me like Rick Johnson's death did, but still a definite bummer. RIP Richard.

Aw man ;_;

RIP RCW

Didn't he write a lot of the TV stuff in Creem? I know he was one of my favourites from the early-'80s era.

Yeah, "Prime Time" was his semi regular tv column...I just grabbed an old issue of creem and had to laugh at him imagining Kael and Sarris sniping at one another while hosting "Sneak Previews"

Is that the same piece that had one of my favourite lines ever, something about the ideal auteurist film (where the highest words of praise are "claustrophobic" and "ambiguous") being something about underground miners told from an uncertain point of view?

Austin singer-songwriter/scene pillar Jimmy LaFave, 61, cancer

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2017-05-22/r-i-p-jimmy-lafave/

xp no, piece was about siskel and ebert's shared crusade against "mad slasher" films...kael/Sarris bit was just a little aside

http://m.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2017/05/22/remembering-the-writer-richard-c-walls

As with Paul Nelson, Paul Williams, and Rick Johnson, depressing.

Drummer - composer Mickey Roker.

He appeared on many records/with many musicians, but his work on Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse always struck me as particularly beautiful.

All three Morgan records he's on - Standards, Live at the Lighthouse, and Sonic Boom - are great. He's also on Herbie Hancock's Speak Like a Child, one of his best Blue Note albums. And he worked with Duke Pearson a lot - something like 10 albums. He must have been Pearson's favorite drummer.

Sir Roger Moore

With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated. pic.twitter.com/6dhiA6dnVg

— Sir Roger Moore (@sirrogermoore) May 23, 2017

Damnit I owe calzino £10

surprisingly bummed by this one tbh, although the timing probably has a fair amount to do with it

King of DGAF. RIP.