Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

I missed the France Gall post too :(

Catchiest German song about computer dating of the 1960s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ

Ursula K Le Guin

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

oof, RIP

oh fuck what a shitty day this is for human culture

fuuuuuck

The worst of news. RIP.

Just read earthsea this past few months. Lovely.

RIP

All the times I linked to her blog saying m/l "you won't believe who's still around and still blogging", and now I can't believe she isn't.

Thanks for all the books (still so many more I haven't read, too), new ways of thinking for teenage me about fantasy and SF and gender - and the blog posts and cat pics too...

yeah, what a hero. earthsea books, with the amazing Tehanu reprise, were formative for me. Left Hand of Darkness and Lathe of Heaven also, later on. RIP. wonderful writer.

I’m so sad about this loss.

I really hoped she'd make it to 100. RIP and thanks for changing the world for the better.

damn, RIP

I only read this a few months ago (and only picked up Earthsea trilogy from a friend for a reread yesterday). RIP

https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/leguin/carrier-bag.htm

Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country

Careful when invoking his name in this thread.

Nah, there will be a ton of ilx revives first.

This thread would be the last place it gets mentioned

Lari White, country singer, 52.

https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/lari-white-now-i-know-country-singer-dead-at-52-w515694

What would be a good starting place for Ursula?

the lathe of heaven

Jeremy Inkel from Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly. Only 34.

http://www.post-punk.com/jeremy-inkel-of-frontline-assembly-has-passed-away/

Thanks flappy

The other bumped thread worth reading through for recs stevie

Ah, thanks for the tip-off Dmac!

Author Jack Ketchum.

Mark E Smith

The day I've been dreading.

"It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Mark E. Smith. He passed this morning at home.... 1/2

— Fall news (@fallnews) January 24, 2018

Oh fucking noooooo

Fucking shit fucking shit fucking shit

:(

oh shit! that would explain the show cancellations over the past month. RIP.

Ski filmmaker Warren Miller
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/obituaries/warren-miller-ski-bum-turned-filmmaker-is-dead-at-93.html

Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker:

https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/01/27/mort-walker-r-i-p/

sorry to hear about ol' mort -- beetle bailey had a good run and could be quite funny back in the day. jeet heer on twitter just pointed out that he was the very last cartoonist personally hired by william randolph hearst.

Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42851668

"hang on a minute, oh ffs these are the wrong screws"

John Morris, composer of most Mel Brooks films

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-morris-blazing-saddles-and-young-frankenstein-composer-dies-at-91-1202679605/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7-wqGbamZc

That track is one of my Halloween playlist favorites.

it's a lovely piece. as is this

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

i will cry such a river when/if mel brooks or carl reiner pass

it is a better world just knowing that they're out there somewhere watching a bad action movie together in one of their houses

https://i.imgur.com/pG26Qyd.jpg

polish footballer stan terlecki, who was the 1981-82 major indoor soccer league player of the year with the pittsburgh spirit and briefly played with the cosmos

http://www.nycosmos.com/news/2017/12/30/remembering-stan-terlecki

was also something of a dissident, which i did not know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C4%99cie_Airport_incident

award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry

Thank you to @samrob12 for writing an obituary of Robert Parry for the New York Times that treats Parry honestly and seriously https://t.co/1stZnZlJUZ

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 30, 2018

http://gerryanderson.co.uk/jeremy-wilkin-died/

Jeremy Wilkin, who voiced Virgil Tracy in Thunderbirds and Captains Ochre and Black in Captain Scarlet, and numerous TV credits including Blakes 7, UFO and Doctor Who.

need to read more of parry's work -- everything i've seen has been v good

Mark Salling, former "Glee" star convicted of child porn possession, via apparent suicide.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mark-salling-glee-actor-dead-at-35-w516136

oh no :(

I read a couple of his books, dude was so great. Full of firey passion

Huh?

I mean. Like. Child porn.

That may have been a case of xpostitis imho

yeah sorry my oh no was for Robert Parry

Roommate I've ordered two of the kiddyfiddlers books