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
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 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
Jake Black of Alabama 3.
― suzy, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Oh no. :-(((
― nathom, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
Will only mean something to Torontonians:
http://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/05/21/dave-bookie-bookman-has-died/
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
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
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 May 2019 09:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 May 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
Larry Carroll, the artist who painted the covers to all of Slayer's best albums.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 23 May 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
Huh. I'm glad you posted that, I never considered who did the art despite the band's unified album art aesthetic.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 May 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
wow, rip
― maura, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
Baby Jane Dexterhttps://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cabaret-Legend-Baby-Jane-Dexter-Passes-Away-20190521
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 May 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
really sad to hear Binyavanga Wainaina has died at 47, a passionate writer, activist & style icon: https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2019/05/22/binyavanga-wainaina-1971-2019-rip/
― ogmor, Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
― suzy, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 4:14 AM (two days ago)
had to google to check if this was a latter-career bassist or w/e - he was the co-frontman, The Very Reverend D. Wayne Love.
rest in power in the blood
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Murray Gell-Mann, who transformed physics with his preternatural ability to find hidden patterns among the tiny particles that make up the universe, earning a Nobel Prize, died on Friday. He was 89. https://t.co/hMuXbx1kou— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 24, 2019
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Loved him in the black lagoon
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
Bart Starr
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26825531/legendary-packers-hof-qb-starr-dies-85
― Brad C., Sunday, 26 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I grew up in the Packer loving part of Michigan and always heard legends that some disgruntled fan killed his dog and that there was a Packers bar in some warm place where midwesterners go in the winter named Bart Starr’s Dog. Apparently the former is untrue but not sure about the latter
― joygoat, Sunday, 26 May 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
the somewhat tragic Cubs/Red Sox figure Bill Buckner
https://www.mlb.com/news/bill-buckner-dies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 May 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
tony horwitz, reporter and author of "confederates in the attic":
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/28/727546155/tony-horwitz-pulitzer-winning-journalist-and-historian-dies-at-60
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
that's one of my favorite books, rip
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
Holy shit I was planning to buy his new one, it sounded really interesting. My wife and I were both big fans, even attended a reading of his several years back, I think it was for his John Brown book, which was also really good.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link