Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

(for the record, I dearly hope the sack of shit suffered like every one of his fucking victims)

Chester Williams, member of South Africa's 1995 rugby World Cup winning squad, heart attack at 49. Now the *fifth* member of that squad, if you include the coach, to die.

Abdul Qadir, Pakistani leg-spinner legend

Bummer, RIP AQ.

had to google what a leg spinner was. first thought involved double-jointedness.

rip AQ

Google googly next (xp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVG7wo4YWiA

Can it really be called a sport if there are a dozen seagulls on the pitch and nobody is bothered by that?

They're incredibly excited - each seagull is worth 10 goals - but the rules strictly penalise showing it.

You don't get seagulls on the pitch in snooker

I've seen Cliff Thorburn

Peter Nichols, playwright.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/sep/09/peter-nichols-playwright-joe-egg-dies-aged-92

Rod Coneybeare, who played the giraffe and the rooster on Canadian kids' show The Friendly Giant.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-coneybeare-cbc-friendly-giant-1.5275900

RIP Jerome and Rusty, touchstones of my childhood.

Guitarist Jimmy Johnson of the Muscle Shoals Stompers at 76

Johnson recorded w/ Aretha; & on
cuts by Etta James (“Tell Mama”), Wilson Pickett (“Mustang Sally,” “Land of a 1000 Dances”), Paul Simon ""Kodachrome," “Loves Me Like a Rock”), Staple Singers (“I’ll Take You There," ”Respect Yourself"), Jimmy Cliff (“The Harder They Come”); Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music

https://www.al.com/life/2019/09/swampers-guitarist-jimmy-johnson-has-died.html

Robert Frank, 94:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead.html

Ahhh this one breaks my heart. Rest in peace, Robert Frank.

lee salem, who discovered or edited most of the major newspaper strips of the last few decades, including calvin and hobbes, the far side, cul de sac, and for better or for worse:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/04/legendary-editor-who-discovered-cathy-boondocks-guided-doonesbury/

Fred Herzog on the same day as Robert Frank

http://www.calgaryherald.com/cms/binary/7907352.jpg

T Boone Pickens, rich guy

Celebs you didn't know...

daniel johnston?

Eccentric Austin singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58. https://t.co/E5Ntv0d9k2

— Austin Chronicle (@AustinChronicle) September 11, 2019

dang

damn. RIP Daniel Johnston.

Wow. I had no idea he was only 58, seemed to have been around forever.

Fred Herzog on the same day as Robert Frank

http://www.calgaryherald.com/cms/binary/7907352.jpg

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:03 AM (four hours ago)

ok the thread has moved on but fred herzog photos of vancouver are probably my favourite vancouver artifacts. i walk down hastings street every day and it's interesting to compare the contemporary view with that neon-laden past of the strip depict in herzog's photos

I was not familiar with Herzog, but I looked up a gallery of his photos and they amazing.

Screenwriter Mardik Martin

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mardik-martin-dead-raging-bull-mean-streets-screenwriter-was-82-1239079

eddie money

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/eddie-money-dead-dies-1203334855

Dude was unrepentant about living his life large right up until the very end.

Philippe Pascal, frontman of French post-punk bands Marquis de Sade and Marc Seberg. He was 63. RIP.

Comics historian and fandom historian Bill Schelly, 67. We weren't close friends but we were close enough to say friends rather than acquaintances.

Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who was fucking 75. I had no idea. Their first five albums range from solid to great, and he produced the Bad Brains' best album, Rock For Light.

Wow. RIP.

Wow

noooooo ;_;

i saw he was 70 (which was surprising enough). 75??

Wow.

RIP. Did not see that one coming.

NYC poet and avant-jazz scene fixture Steve Dalachinsky. I knew him for about 20 years, saw him at every Vision Festival I attended and a million gigs at the Knitting Factory, Tonic, and other places. He was even hanging out at the Whitney Museum when I interviewed Cecil Taylor there for The Wire. An awesome guy. I’ll miss him.

Wow, he was very much always on the scene; sorry to hear that.

Broadway's Phyllis Newman

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/196923/phyllis-newman-tony-winning-broadway-legend-dies-at-86/

whoah. RIP Rick. was just playing "Just What I Needed" Saturday night.

cokie roberts, 75

https://abcnews.go.com/US/legendary-journalist-political-commentator-cokie-roberts-dies-75/story?id=65633507

She was on one of the Sunday shows a few weeks ago and her appearance made me suck in my breath. She looked about 95, and like she weighed about 60 pounds max.

she was annoying

Never change, shakes.

I mean she wasn't out and out evil like some people but ugh she was like the archetypal beltway insider "centrist" Democrat