Nancy Roman, Nasa’s first Chief of Astronomy
― Madchen, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
https://sh-s7-live-s.legocdn.com/is/image/LEGO/21312_alt3
― koogs, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
Herb Kelleher, innovative founder of Southwest Airlines (first to dress flight attendants in hot pants, to name one innovation)
― Josefa, Friday, 4 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
Man, massive news we all missed! The legendary Al Reinert, director of THE moon landing documentary For All Mankind -- which also produced a legendary soundtrack, Eno's Apollo -- passed on, initial news announced yesterday:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-Chronicle-reporter-Al-Reinert-co-writer-13504713.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 January 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
I showed that to my daughters just a month ago - what a gem.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 4 January 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
aw no :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 January 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
Howell Begle, who was a key figure via his pro bono support of Ruth Brown in getting royalties and more to any number of African American musicians from earlier years who'd been cheated out of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/howell-begle-lawyer-who-championed-penniless-randb-stars-dies-at-74/2019/01/03/fdf1ac7e-0e32-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html?utm_term=.bb6514e3f36c
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Percussionist-composer Alvin Fielder, founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 6 January 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
Alan R. Pearlman, founder of ARP Instruments:http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2019/01/06/arp-founder-alan-r-pearlman-has-died/
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 6 January 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
^ was just about to post that one :(
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 6 January 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
Eric Haydock, bassist for the Hollies from '62-'66
https://bestclassicbands.com/eric-haydock-obituary-1-6-19/?fbclid=IwAR0GGwtiK7RmlxLgfqk85EQ94VDEV3x4zCkb8pARcoktiM6fZEd1RVEQo-g
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 January 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
Victor "The Mascara Snake" Hayden died in December.
― visiting, Monday, 7 January 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
:(
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 January 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
jimmy hannan, old timey entertainment fellow
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 7 January 2019 23:04 (five years ago) link
We made this little tribute to one of our favorite people ever in the world of comedy, the one and only Bob Einstein. (And yes, I did give him the car..) pic.twitter.com/0cVMIERSL1— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) January 5, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
Clydie King
https://m.facebook.com/451295254997830/posts/1917555085038499/
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Ron Smith, seminal 2000ad artist.
We're very sorry to hear that Judge Dredd artist Ron Smith has passed away. From co-creating Chopper to the weird Otto Sump and the wonderful Mayor Dave, he was an incredible artist with a career spanning decades. Our deepest sympathies to his family.Droid tribute by @PyeParr pic.twitter.com/sbLqGJHooa— 2000 AD (@2000AD) January 10, 2019
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 10 January 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
RIP, best Dredd artist.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
rip, second-best dredd artist behind the also-recently-deceased carlos ezquerra
― more ham for me myself and i (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Would probably have never known about this but for this thread. RIP Victor.
http://www.beefheart.com/victor-hayden-rip/
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 January 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen
https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/mrinal-sen-indian-film-director-dead-dies-1203096782/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Verna Bloom
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/verna-bloom-dead-dies-animal-house-1203104909/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
^ whoa, I never put it together that the single mother in Medium Cool, the abandoned wife in The Hired Hand, and the sad lady in the bar in After Hours were all the same actress, let alone that she was also in the likes of Animal House
― Josefa, Thursday, 10 January 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
and Mary, Mother of Christ.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Joseph Jarman, formerly of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. I saw him with them in 2017 - he got up and read a poem at their NYC show. He seemed pretty frail but not teetering on the edge of the grave. He was 81.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 11 January 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
Oh no! RIP, love those AEC recs
― Οὖτις, Friday, 11 January 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
He made a live album in 1978 with Famoudou Don Moye, Egwu-Anwu (Sun Song), that I'm listening to for the first time right now; it's amazing.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 11 January 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
Civil rights activist John Hunter Gray, 84.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2DtjNRNUA-5ClSsO5I29aEpZFPVHyURoSMa41Lo9bPXP7HmdJGod04vL0
― nickn, Friday, 11 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Jo Andres, 65. Steve Buscemi’s wife of 30 years.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 January 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
Mathematician Michael Atiyah: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/obituaries/michael-atiyah-dead.html
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 12 January 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
RIP
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 January 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
Cartoonist Batton Lash (creator of Wolff & Byrd, writer of "Archie Meets the Punisher")https://www.newsfromme.com/2019/01/12/batton-lash-r-i-p/
― The Non-Verbal Signs Your Mod Is Giving You (WmC), Sunday, 13 January 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
Music writer Dave Laing:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/14/dave-laing-obituary
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Willie Murphy, "mayor" of Minneapolis' West Bank music scene, running partner of Koerner Ray & Glover and producer of Bonnie Raitt's debut LP.
http://www.startribune.com/heart-and-soul-of-minneapolis-music-scene-willie-murphy-dies-at-75/504291622/
― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/lQPtAiggTnQ
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
Stage and screen star Carol Channing:https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46878018
― Tha Threadkilla Strikes Again (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
comedian-actor William Stephenson
http://thecomicscomic.com/2019/01/14/r-i-p-william-stephenson-1957-2019/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
John Bogle, founder of Vanguard
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
Openly gay Latin trap artist Kevin Fret, killed last week:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/11/kevin-fret-gay-latin-trap-rapper-shot-dead-puerto-rico
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 17 January 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
rip mary oliver
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
Guitar hero Reggie Young, 82. "Suspicious Minds", "Son of a Preacher Man", 'Hooked on a Feeling", "I Think I'll Just Sit Here and Drink", "Luckenbach, Texas", just for starters.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Friday, 18 January 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
Love that guy. RIP:(
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
yes. she was/is my wife's favorite poet and one of the very few poets who was able to attract a large and loyal following in an age where perhaps one American in a hundred can name ANY poet who isn't dead already. her poetry ain't bad, neither.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
Nick Redman
https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/nick-redman-documentary-filmmaker-and-soundtrack-producer-dead-1203111967/
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 January 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
Windsor Davies
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-46931129
I read somewhere once that he had two brothers named Stuart and Tudor.
― nate woolls, Saturday, 19 January 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link
"Oh dear.. How sad... Never mind."
#tomorrowsheadline
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 January 2019 12:18 (five years ago) link
SHUT UPPPPPP!
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 January 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
I read there's confirmation on his Facebook but I can't see it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
News was first reported by John McElroy, the publisher of Autoline, who has interviewed Mead on his webcast in the past. pic.twitter.com/e0ymc3SQzX— cartoonbrew.com (@cartoonbrew) December 30, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Jazz guitarist Vic Juris.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
Norma Tanega
Wow, I like her music. I'd only heard the song from the tv show before. Definitely up there with E-40 among the great artists from Vallejo CA.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Former NBA commissioner David Stern
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
I made a new one.
Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_b3410680-2677-11ea-a4a7-e3253f3bf2f5.html
Obit for Haitian vodou percussionist Daman FanFan Louis who died earlier in December. He lived in Haiti, then NYC, and for the past 8 years in New Orleans. He received a second line sendoff.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
listening to david klion and others discussing norman podhoretz's MAKING IT (1967) on their stitcher podcast know your enemy and looking up to check when norman p died (he didn't yet, he's 90!), when midge decter died (ditto, she's 92!!), when gertrude himmelfarb died (30 dec 2019 aged 97, hence relevant to this thread's interests if not ilx's politics)
if you want to live for nearly ten decades be a neocon :0
― mark s, Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
By coincidence, I too had cause to Google Norman Podhoretz recently. after reading Janet Malcolm's piece about the MAKING IT reissue, excerpted here https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/22/norman-podhoretz-making-it/
I do like this review Malcolm quotes (by 'Wilfred Sheed, a prominent critic and novelist of the time'):
In this mixture of complacency and agitation, he has written a book of no literary distinction whatever, pockmarked by clichés and little mock modesties and a woefully pedestrian tone…. Mediocrities from coast to coast will no doubt take Making It to their hearts and will use it for their own justification…. In the present condition of our society and the world, I cannot imagine a more feckless, silly book.
Besides seeing Podhoretz's name in things like MAD magazine, I had no idea who or what he was (maybe a figure like Lionel Trilling, who seems equally obscure in the UK?) so the right wing politics were something of a surprise.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 16 January 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
the podcast is good and even (very briefly) mentions lionel trilling
― mark s, Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
I only know about Podhoretz, Decter, and Himmelfarb from reading Gore Vidal.Does this mean John Podhoretz and William Kristol are going to be around another 30 years? Greeeeaaaaaat.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
N Podhoretz's rag Commentary was skewered regularly in Woody Allen films
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link