Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Nipsey Hussle, Grammy-Nominated Rapper, Shot Dead in L.A.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nipsey-hussle-grammy-nominated-rapper-shot-dead-in-l-a-815476/?fbclid=IwAR2SPPiyvj6zzLG-S1g_etKl2qf2B3j-RzpTHscAj37ygFd5pqi2Z0TP1Zs

Ken Gibson, first black US mayor of a Northeast city (Newark)

https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/03/ken-gibson-newarks-trailblazing-mayor-and-the-first-black-mayor-of-a-major-northeast-city-dies-at-86.html

T Mallet

Bloody hell I thought that was going to be Timmy Mallett for a moment, don't do that to me

SF author Vonda N. McIntyre, 70

http://file770.com/science-fiction-author-vonda-n-mcintyre-official-obituary/

House legend Kim English

https://youtu.be/uuPKsth-zwg

Shark house legend Bill Heine

Bill Heine, the man who in 1986 stuck a giant shark on the roof of his terraced house in Oxford, has died. He fought planning officers all the way to the top for the right to keep it. The government's final ruling is thing of beauty. https://t.co/dpgRGxFrN1 pic.twitter.com/XG8xIIwoz2

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) April 3, 2019

obit thread not generally the place for a lol, but lol

doo doo doo doo doo doo

The people’s champion

Architect/Curator Francois Perrin dies at 50

https://la.curbed.com/2019/4/3/18292807/francois-perrin-architect-obituary?fbclid=IwAR34H78r0WR2MIN6UAmuBx5i37ZK4a3Jk0rsPzDbv0EkxBc7W4L26LPdQIo

According to Twitter, journalist / writer Pete Cashmore. The name wasn't familiar to me, but it seems he wrote quite a lot of things I liked and I hadn't made the connection until now.

the mashable founder?

this guy - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/petecashmore

yeah the mashable founder

No, a guy from Wolverhampton who worked for NME and men’s mags.

Oh shit, it's the Pete Cashmore who was also part of the UK battle rap scene. RIP.

oh, he's talked about his mental illness quite a bit - in the graun once i seem to remember - and must be only in his mid 40s. shouldn't speculate i suppose but sad in any case

https://pitchfork.com/news/tiger-merritt-vocalist-guitarist-of-morning-teleportation-dead-at-31/

Pete Cashmore on not being the other Pete Cashmore. RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/nov/21/pete-cashmore-successful-namesake-twitter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Shawn Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpbPiu8xpA

former Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, 97, opponent of both civil rights legislation and "porn rock"

what is porn rock and where can I find it

it's all around you

Porn rock landed on us

...in 1985. (thx to Tipper Gore)

Senator Hollings began the proceedings by noting that the only redeeming social value he detected in “porn rock,” as he called it, was that its words are “inaudible.” “It’s outrageous filth,” he went on, “and we’ve got to do something about it…. If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would.” He said he had asked “the best constitutional minds” around to see if the stuff could be legally outlawed.

“The framers of the First Amendment never considered broadcast airwaves that could pipe this stuff willy-nilly into homes,” Hollings said.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-censorship-big-brother-meets-twisted-sister-100136/

(icymi, he was a Democrat)

porn rock piped willy-nilly

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way" – Classic or Dud?
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly
porn rock willy-nilly

is anyone itt surprised to learn that a conservative nut senator from south carolina, first elected in 1949, was a democrat?

Wait until Dnesh Dsouza finds out

well Doc some ppl may not have the historical background

he ran for prez in' 84, dropped out after NH... and endorsed Gary Hart!

also a fair number of Dixiecrats had switched parties by the '80s

So the PMRC and “porn rock” were a Democrat thing? WTF were they thinking???

Hurt yourself a little so your enemies won't hurt you a lot. See also the Comics Code Authority.

see also three strikes, "super-predators," welfare reform etc.

Shocked to learn that Okwui Enwezor died on March 1. He one among the preeminent art curators in the 21st century, and his projects and writings are responsible for vastly expanding discourses on post-colonial and global politics in art: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/okwui-enwezor-dead.html

actor seymour cassel

RIP. I used to have a gigantic poster from Faces on my wall for years.

"Guitarist Slash (real name Saul Hudson), who was childhood friends with Cassel's son, credited Cassel with giving him his nickname, because he was always zipping from one place to another and never sitting still.[5]"

shit, seymour cassel, a classic "that guy"

^^^literally said this aloud when i saw the news

really thought he was gone already

I used to think he'd died after shooting Rushmore, but then I saw him on a Boston Public ep in 2000 or so playing a teacher who'd faked his death, which was a funny way to be set straight on the matter.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/seymour-cassel-dead-dies-rushmore-1203183354/amp/

A cool, neat footnote in Cassell's career is his appearance--alongside Alex Rocco--as a henchman in the Batman/Green Hornet episodes.

Had one of these as a kid:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0758/8457/products/029_0387e290-aebe-4786-88cc-951def1ca03f_large.JPG?v=1463100113

He’s the guy who sets up Ben Gazzara in Killing of a Chinese Bookie right?

RIP Seymour. Thought he was long dead tho.

Richard Cole - last surviving Doolittle Raider
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html