Right made that Rural Juror joke myself. Think Dukes of Hazzard was later, when those shows started coming back, The New Wave of Rural Ruckus
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Dukes was post-Smokey, pure Carter Country.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Dukes might have been part of the Prime Time Stunt Man Pension Plan, along with A-Team and The Fall Guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Larry Storch lives
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Exactly
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
DJ Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson.
― suzy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Cycling commentator and former pro rider Paul Sherwen, aged 62
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
no way. link?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62"> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-6233 years covering the Tour and 7 riding. Has always felt like he and Liggett would go forever.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 3 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
yeah 33 years of commentary is nothing to sneeze at. He drove me bananas but I will miss him :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
NZ film director Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, The Quiet Earth)https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-geoff-murphy-dies-dead-new-zealand-1203079148/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Hearing unconfirmed reports via a usually reliable friend that Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has passed away.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Yep http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
― Alba, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Damn, RIP.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
RIP Pete. What a brilliant, brilliant artist.
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
And a really friendly guy, the couple of times I spoke to him.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
RIP, one of the greats
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
fuck, rip pete :(
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
David Mossman, ex taxi driver and Vortex Club founder passed away on Friday night.
― calzino, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
Chicago blues guitarist Jody Williams RIP at 83 . He played on famed sides like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "I’m Bad," Howlin’ Wolf’s "Evil" and "Forty Four" and Sonny Boy Williamson’s "Don’t Start Me Talking."... He began performing at clubs at the age of 17, and within a few years became the house guitarist at Chess Records, a role he served in until he was called into the army in 1958.
Though he had backed a varied list of artists including Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles during his time at Chess, Williams left the music industry after returning to Chicago in 1960. He would only return in 2000
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jody-williams-famed-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-at-83
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
33-year-old singer Jackson Aluta Kazimoto, known as Dogo Jackie or Jackie Simela, of great Tanzanian band Jagwa Music died in a car accident
https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/tanzania-jagwa-music-frontman-dies
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Potential heir to Howard Hughes Melvin Dummarhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/900045831/utahn-melvin-dummar-who-claimed-to-be-a-howard-hughes-heir-dies.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Sondra Locke
http://extratv.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwoods-ex-girlfriend-oscar-nominee-sondra-locke-dead-at-74/
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
^^In November, but just publicized now.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
someone needs to show The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
RIP Sondra
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
you'd think they could at least put 'clint's ex-girlfriend' *after* 'oscar nominee'
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
Nancy Wilson
https://apnews.com/2250c35bca12466a9f7a96523b0ff1fa?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
Better Sondra Locke obit:
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-sondra-locke-oscar-nominated-star-of-the-heart-1831088914
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 December 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
Melvin Dummar--would not have guessed in a million years he had still been alive.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 December 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
Of local/regional interest only, Cleveland TV legend, weatherman Don Webster: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/12/don-webster-one-of-clevelands-most-popular-tv-personalities-has-died-at-79.html
I actually had occasion to interact with Don on several occasions. I was on my high school's "Academic Challenge" team when he was host of the long-running TV show; and when I was a button-pusher at WKNR 1220 AM, he provided the station's local weather forecasts, so I had to take phone calls from him a few times a day and record the weather onto a cart. Super nice guy.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 14 December 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
damn, RIP Nancy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
shit i just heard about ricky jay.
i got to see him at brown university in 1995 or so. it was billed as a "lecture" but it was basically his stage show at the time, framed around a history of sleight of hand. he did the watermelon thing.
the documentary about him is great. "deceptive practice" i think it's called? there's a story about a block of ice that literally makes me cry. there's another story from his karate instructor that probably ranks up there with the very best wtf how-did-he-do-that ricky jay stories.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 15 December 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w
― nickn, Sunday, 16 December 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
TCM's annual obit compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
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I've considered starting a rolling prominent person fentanyl overdose death because there seems to be at least one a month
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Galt MacDermot, sampletastic composer of Hair.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/galt-macdermot-dead-hair-composer-dies-at-89-1170163
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Penny Marshall ;_;
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I had a friend who worked with Penny Marshall, and he would be... discreetly silent
RIP Myrna Turner
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Yes, RIP this last
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
noooooo Penny, i loved herher book is so good. such a rad lady.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
So in the past few days two people associated with “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)” have passed away. Not to be macabre, but according to the well known rule of three...
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
Is there a list of examples of the rule of threes actually playing out? Seems like it either stalls at 2 or goes 2016 insane
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Marilyn McCoo, get thee to a physician.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 22:30 (five years ago) link
Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor and designer of United Airlines’ 1960s online booking system.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/evelyn-berezin-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Madchen, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
Cool career! May her memory be a blessing.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
RIP. Pretty sure United still uses that system
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Donald Moffat, a perennial of stage, film, and TV
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-theater/news/donald-moffat-dies-at-87_87380.html
I saw him play Larry Slade opposite Robards in The Iceman Cometh.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link