Mike Wilhelm, guitarist and founding member of the (US) Charlatans. I knew some of their songs and history previously, but spent a bunch of time today with this, great stories:
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Scrapbook/Mike_Wilhelm.html
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Phew. At 102, I. M. Pei has passed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obituaries/im-pei-dead.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
.. also in the Flamin' Groovies (xp)
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 May 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
For a split second I thought you were saying IM Pei was in the Flamin Groovies.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
Well, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
They've been around a long time.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
in an inverse of not knowing someone was still alive, i had no idea I.M. Pei was remotely that old
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art is a beautiful modernist home for modernist painting and much else. The atrium is light-filled, has great sight lines, complemented by the monumental Calder mobile; the galleries are intimate and functional. A place my heart dwells.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 16 May 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
xpost man... i had a few unexpected hours in d.c. and walked right past it today. i've been before and admired it, just wasn't in the mood. RIP. think my fave is his museum in ithaca, a surprisingly well-scaled and thoughtful treat (it seemed less humane in dramatic old b&w photos).(also shoutout to whichever ilxor it was that permanently welded his name to elton john's "pain" in my mind)
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
xpHe also designed those big plastic balls.
― nickn, Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Ha, or Flaming Lips, whatev.
Flaming Custard Pei.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/01/25/Pictures/grumpy-cat-awarded-710k-in-lawsuit_3d814a7e-01ba-11e8-a2b4-180df2fa46c1.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
rip big man, heaven needed a cat with extremely monetisable facial deformities
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 May 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
i wanna run to u
― mark s, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
sadness in his eyes
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
Pei designed the art museum at my alma mater, which is pretty nice and which no one who isn't in Indiana for some unfortunate reason will ever go out of their way to see.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
Pei designed a building at my alma mater in which I lived for three years.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
he designed a fascinating church i visited in taiwan a couple of weeks ago
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 May 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Since you didn't specify, I'm operating under the assumption that every facet of your claim was a wild flight of fancy.
― Blithering Hayseed (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
It was posted on the cusp of dreaming and waking, so there is some transfigured truth in there.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
was only 7. no age for a cat, no matter how grumpy.
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
Drugs? Car crash? Suicide?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
sadness in his eyes― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:48 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― koogs, Friday, 17 May 2019 11:48 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And now I have "Death Disco" playing in my mind, for the grumpy cat...
― Mark G, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
was only 7. no age for a cat, no matter how grumpy.― thomasintrouble, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:13 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:13 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Barely a grumpy kitten
― Mark G, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
founding member of the 7 club
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
the point where human civilisation started giving an age to furry vermin was the start of the ending..
― calzino, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Was that cat named I.M. Pet?
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
RIPei
― na (NA), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
GrumPei
― nickn, Friday, 17 May 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
furpeipei
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
if it exists someone please post a GrumPei visual mashup to the Most 2019 Images thread
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
herman wouk, 103
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
all the centenarians have had it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Buncha impressively old people dying.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Fun Fact: Herman Woul wrote for Fred Allen's radio show.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
WOUK, stupid phone.
man, ten days shy of 104
― omar little, Friday, 17 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Garfield/status/1129442816210481154
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 May 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
RIP Herman Wouk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95QqBXLG2I
― Brad C., Friday, 17 May 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
didn't read Caine, but was always kinda repulsed by Barney Greenwald's ultimate apologia for Queeg
Wouk probably liked Nixon too
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 May 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
RIP, Warren Lee, co-founder of the Empire State Soul Club.
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 May 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
As seen here: https://www.shakesomeaction.nyc/blog/2019/05/17/warren-lee-and-the-essc/
Sweet guy, that Warren Lee. I always had a good time at his soul parties, and it was nice to run into him in any context
― Josefa, Friday, 17 May 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
Niki Lauda
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/21/niki-lauda-formula-one-legend-dies-aged-70
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
oh so that is why James Hunt is trending.
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
aw RIP Niki
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
Nan Winton, the BBC's first female newsreader, has died at the age of 93. pic.twitter.com/sEeWkPQCBN— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) May 21, 2019
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link