Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

They've been around a long time.

in an inverse of not knowing someone was still alive, i had no idea I.M. Pei was remotely that old

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.

For a split second I thought you were saying IM Pei was in the Flamin Groovies.

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)

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He also designed those big plastic balls.

Ha, or Flaming Lips, whatev.

Flaming Custard Pei.

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

rip big man, heaven needed a cat with extremely monetisable facial deformities

i wanna run to u

sadness in his eyes

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.

Pei designed a building at my alma mater in which I lived for three years.

he designed a fascinating church i visited in taiwan a couple of weeks ago

Pei designed a building at my alma mater in which I lived for three years.

Since you didn't specify, I'm operating under the assumption that every facet of your claim was a wild flight of fancy.

It was posted on the cusp of dreaming and waking, so there is some transfigured truth in there.

was only 7. no age for a cat, no matter how grumpy.

Drugs? Car crash? Suicide?

sadness in his eyes

― 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...

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

Barely a grumpy kitten

founding member of the 7 club

the point where human civilisation started giving an age to furry vermin was the start of the ending..

Was that cat named I.M. Pet?

RIPei

GrumPei

furpeipei

if it exists someone please post a GrumPei visual mashup to the Most 2019 Images thread

herman wouk, 103

all the centenarians have had it

Buncha impressively old people dying.

Fun Fact: Herman Woul wrote for Fred Allen's radio show.

WOUK, stupid phone.

man, ten days shy of 104

https://twitter.com/Garfield/status/1129442816210481154

RIP Herman Wouk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-95QqBXLG2I

didn't read Caine, but was always kinda repulsed by Barney Greenwald's ultimate apologia for Queeg

Wouk probably liked Nixon too

RIP, Warren Lee, co-founder of the Empire State Soul Club.

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

Niki Lauda

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/21/niki-lauda-formula-one-legend-dies-aged-70

oh so that is why James Hunt is trending.

aw RIP Niki

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

Jake Black of Alabama 3.

Oh no. :-(((

Will only mean something to Torontonians:

http://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/05/21/dave-bookie-bookman-has-died/

Judith Kerr, author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea / the Mog books.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/23/judith-kerr-beloved-author-of-the-tiger-who-came-to-tea-dies-aged-95

Sad news, though 95 is some age.

My favourite fact about the Mog books is that the Thomas family are modelled after her own, so Mr Thomas is her husband, Quatermass author Nigel Kneale.