What about Bubb Rubb? We still have him?
― peace, man, Saturday, 19 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
Since we're doing animals, I meant to post about Roger, the buff kangaroo, who passed Dec 10.
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.vrh1_WfwD4rW33F5KN_GXwHaFj&pid=15.1&P=0&w=209&h=158
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/675282745/roger-the-buff-kangaroo-beloved-online-dies-at-age-12
― nickn, Saturday, 19 January 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
steroids are a helluva drug
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Sunday, 20 January 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
rip big man, too swole to live
― Effectively Big Jim with a beard. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 20 January 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
RIPped
― pomenitul, Sunday, 20 January 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
" 'He's a big boy, and very aggressive,' says Chris, lifting his shirt to show off some war wounds.
" 'That's Roger,' he says pointing at one scar. 'That's Roger too. There are another six stitches on my groin. They're Roger.'
'Basically he's just a fighter,' says Chris. 'It's natural for an alpha male. He likes to see the threat go, so will always come out to confront you. If he grabs you, he doesn't let go. You can't get out easily. It's a chokehold. As for a well-placed kick, it can disembowel you.' "
he was such a gentle soul :p
― calzino, Sunday, 20 January 2019 11:02 (five years ago) link
Toxic marsupiality >:(
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 January 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
actress-singer-comedian Kaye Ballard
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2019/01/22/kaye-ballard-dies-at-93-rancho-mirage/2620474002/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
Kaye Ballard
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
xp!
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 18:36 (five years ago) link
Edwin Birdsong
My family and I are asking for your prayers. My cousin and a music legend, the late Edwin Birdsong made his transition to be with the Lord. His music and legacy will continue to live on. Be blessed!!! #RIPEdwinBirdsong #MyGrammyAwardWinningCousin #ColaBottleBaby pic.twitter.com/3VqosL03ol— James C. Birdsong, Jr. (@TheRealJBOnline) January 22, 2019
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Harris Wofford
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/harris-wofford-civil-rights-activist-who-helped-kennedy-win-the-white-house-dies-at-92/2019/01/22/026fe870-1e09-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
Kay Ballard & The Seeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzbaKPBKwl0
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
Russell Baker, Pulitzer-Winning Times Columnist and Humorist, Dies at 93
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link
columnists you thought were already dead
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
No, not Edwin Birdsong!
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
Jonas Mekas
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
RIP Jonas
I guess this will renew debate on his relationship to fascism, per J Hoberman
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
A remarkably well-timed death, then.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
I saw JM around Anthology Film Archives (which he co-founded about 60 years ago) a lot in the '90s and 00s. I'd come looking for the new calendar and he'd smile, "Not yet, not yet."
http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/23/jonas-mekas-key-experimental-filmmaker-dies-96/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
These seems to be the only mention in the Desert Sun article on Kaye Ballard about the 'complex personal life' in the title?
Ballard never married or had children. She wrote in her memoir, “I found an emotional connection with women like Liz (Smith, the admittedly bisexual syndicated columnist who was Ballard’s road manager in the 1950s) that I could never find with a man. I don’t know why or how it happened, but I do know it has kept me single my entire life.”
(also holy fuck at 'admittedly' in 2019)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
RIP JM
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
With JM's passing the little French bistro Lucien at 1st Ave & 1st St. loses another regular. It used to be him, Taylor Mead, and Gerard Malanga there all the time and now only Gerard's left.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Diana Athill, author and editor, 101.
― suzy, Thursday, 24 January 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwe's Afro-jazz legend
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46976005
name'll be familiar if you listened to peel in the 80s
― koogs, Thursday, 24 January 2019 09:59 (five years ago) link
people who were born in the '20s still use 'admittedly', AF
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
Sure, but that's not part of the quote, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Hugh McIlvanney, Scottish sports writer for Guardian and Sunday Times, aged 84
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/25/hugh-mcilvanney-veteran-sports-reporter-dies-aged-84
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 25 January 2019 06:17 (five years ago) link
James Frawley
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-frawley-dead-monkees-muppet-movie-director-was-82-1178797
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 January 2019 07:59 (five years ago) link
(xp) RIP Hugh. Another case of people you thought were dead, though his brother is a case of people you thought were alive.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 25 January 2019 10:54 (five years ago) link
(xp) RIP James.
Dušan Makavejev, 86
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Worried the rule of three is going to come into play with a-g filmmakers.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.
― jmm, Friday, 25 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of the greatest sportswriters to come out of the uk. i don't care for the gee-gees, one of his areas of expertise, but he was magnificent on football and boxing
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
iconic voice as well. a friend and i would send each other messages reading things like the lyrics to poker face in mcilvanney voice
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
RIP. I should watch something of his beyond WR.― jmm, Friday, January 25, 2019 12:45 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jmm, Friday, January 25, 2019 12:45 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
his eclipse boxset is pretty good, I really liked the case of the missing switchboard operator
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 January 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
I saw him introduce Switchboard Operator some years ago and he had a good sense of humor
― Josefa, Friday, 25 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Michel Legrand
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47013214
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
RIP. Great composer. Truth be told I went to see him play piano once and it was not my cup of tea as they say.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Been a healthy crop of notable deaths so far this year, and it's not even February.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 January 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the Celestial Choir. He will always be cherished, loved and remembered for his genius, his love of family and his humanity. I am blessed to have been so close. We will forever speak his name.❤️ pic.twitter.com/TDJfpbbJWa— Debbie Allen (@msdebbieallen) January 29, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
I guess his best wasn't good enough.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
oof
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/film/news/dick-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/amp/
― MrDasher, Thursday, 31 January 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
RIP dear Dick
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
Aww. RIP.
Anyone see the recent-ish doc about him?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
noticed him in chopping mall last october, thought "i know that guy, who is he?" and imdb'd him. saw him again in gremlins a few weeks later.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
a face created by a caricaturist
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
RIP :(
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 January 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link