Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

ugh....awful

I thought this thread by a friend was very well said.

THREAD: All I can think about is this clip that went viral a few weeks ago of Kobe and his 13 year old daughter, Gianna, aka Gigi (now confirmed to have perished with him in the helicopter crash with him). He was dad-splaining basketball, and she was ribbing him for doing it. pic.twitter.com/qr3oRqCLOq

— Karen Tongson (@inlandemperor) January 26, 2020

I don't really see 'ribbing' there but that does look like a tender father-daughter moment

i guess this is a good time to tell my story. in one of my former jobs here in Los Angeles we had a subsidy company that was a limo company. anyways, Kobe left his camera in the back seat of one of the limos. they knew i lived in Orange County and told me they would give me a car for the night and my job was to go to his house in Newport Beach and take him his camera. fair enough, when i got to the security gate i had clearance and all that. so i went up to his door and knocked. i'm expecting like a maid or butler or someone else to answer the front door. nope, it was Kobe himself so he actually took some time and we talked for a few moments. it was sort of a surreal experience but not too unusual as i have met a lot of stars at that job and it became sort of normal for me. when you are meeting the members of Metallica, having Renée Zellweger calling me telling me that she just wrecked our BMW and giving me the location of that car or having Kim Gordon telling me to turn down Led Zeppelin (true story) as she was trying to talk to someone. then it became sort of normal for me.

RIP Kobe Bryant

Gigi Bryant, 13


https://theathletic.com/1563301/2020/01/26/remembering-gigi-bryant-2006-2020/

Bob Gullotti, drummer for Boston jazz trio The Fringe and professor at Berklee Schoolof Music, at 71. Don't know if anyone on here is familiar with them, but he was a monster drummer and they were a fantastic band. I used to go see them play every week at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge.

https://www.jambase.com/article/drummer-bob-gullotti-death

rick fox officially not dead, btw

Illustrator/Artist Jason Polan

hearing really sad news that the artist jason polan has passed way. i didn't know him well but he always seemed a very talented, energetic, and unique person. i loved getting the chance to write about his taco bell drawing club last year. https://t.co/xeUL85NzRZ

— Naomi Fry (@frynaomifry) January 27, 2020

Polan was awesome and a real and true piece of what makes new york still a worthwhile place to be sometimes. RIP

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6793-farewell-to-our-friend-jason-polan

Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin.

RIP the lovely Nicholas Parsons, who passed away at 1am this morning at the grand age of 96. A charming, kind and generous man who will be sadly missed by all of us privileged enough to know him.

— Ian Freeman (@ianfreeman) January 28, 2020

*bzzzz* HESITATION

sorry too soon. but 96 is a fine innings

Been basically annoyed by him for the best part of 30 years now, but will miss him anyway.

I hate that damned show, but when that smug twat Mitchell replaces him it will be even worse! He was excellent in Mr Jolly Lives Next Door tbf.

Honestly I haven't been able to listen to it since he decided some time in the 90s that "deviation" meant "making a joke" and that every dispute could be fixed by alternating "benefit of the doubt" which just made for decades of boring radio. Williams, Jones and Nimmo being dead obviously didn't help, their attacks on him were the best part of it. Afraid to say the future host JAM is most likely the dreaded Brandreth IMO, Mitchell would be a bit better, not that I would listen to it anyway tbph.

all 9 circles of hell = being trapped in a leaky reeking portaloo with Brandreth + Mitchell for eternity.

Been basically annoyed by him for the best part of 30 years now, but will miss him anyway.

^this

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LwJlOfNHT0

R.I.P. Jack Burns. George Carlin’s first comedy partner, early Second City alum, head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show, hosted in the second season of SNL, announcer for Fridays...the list goes on. Ugh. 2020 is a such a bummer so far. pic.twitter.com/OLbBtfYUfL

— That Week In SNL (@ThatWeekInSNL) January 28, 2020

Hubert Mingarelli, French writer. He was 64. RIP.

screenwriter Harriet Frank Jr., most associated with Martin Ritt films like Hud, Norma Rae, Conrack

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harriet-frank-jr-dead-oscar-nominated-screenwriter-hud-norma-rae-was-96-1219562

Mexican environmental protestor

Mexican environmental protestor Homero Gómez https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51304857

Hmm. My mom was going to be in Mexico next month on a monarch pilgrimage, I wonder how much of this will be/is on her radar.

Television titan Fred Silverman https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/arts/television/fred-silverman-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Wes Wilson, Iconic Psychedelic Poster Artist, Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wes-wilson-psychedelic-poster-artist-dead-obituary-945946/

oh man RIP
Wilson had so many legendary posters <3

Wes Wilson, Iconic Psychedelic Poster Artist, Dead at 82

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wes-wilson-psychedelic-poster-artist-dead-obituary-945946🕸/🕸

Huh? I didn’t post that!

John Belushi as Fred Silverman

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hnbgq

Wolfgang Dauner apparently. Three weeks ago. Dude responsible for a lot of great music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Dauner

Mary Higgins Clark, 92

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bestselling-author-mary-higgins-clark-dead-at-age-92/2020/01/31/8fa330c8-449e-11ea-99c7-1dfd4241a2fe_story.html

Ed Stroud, 57 year old Atlanta guitarist who played on TLC’s “Waterfalls “ and a bunch of Outkast songs has passed away

https://www.soultracks.com/story-ed-stroud-dies

awww rip Mary

havent read her in a long time but went through a big MHC phase at one point

for a while i had this idea that if i ever wrote a commercial as fuck novel, it would be a harlequin romance narrated by martha washington.

then i found out MHC's first novel was a romance between the washingtons. great minds etc

Andy Gill of Gang of Four.

Andy Gill. pic.twitter.com/DHNCz5lAe6

— GANG OF FOUR (@gangof4official) February 1, 2020

Aw, only a few months after the other Andy Gill passed away as well. RIP.

Damn, RIP

Damn, All-Time Guitar Hero. RIP

Fuck, man, no way!!!!

Fucking helll that's sad

Talk about yer actual guitar heroes ;_;

RIP

Peter Serkin, American classical pianist, 72. RIP.

Lila Garrett, TV screenwriter (Bewitched, All in the Family, etc), anti-war activist, hosted political radio show Connect the Dots on KPFK, Los Angeles (Pacifica Radio)

Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/ivan-kral-author-of-dancing-barefoot-song-dies-aged-71?fbclid=IwAR1diQ95pTWQ8PYNKTP7uYN71Io1nl-tqavJ_b5z4ZOVRSDsvqdIyy0UH18

i did not know this but he co-wrote Ask the Angels and Dancing Barefoot w/ Patti among others.

RIP

Not another one. RIP Ivan.