Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

all kinds of clubs

Must was all over MTV/VH1 in the late 1990s thru the 2000s on all of those I Love the (Decade) shows and "100 Most Shocking Moments" etc. He's as famous as Alig. End of post

Musto is plenty famous.

bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice.

wrestler jon huber aka brodie lee, 41

writer barry lopez ('arctic dreams'), 75

I have no idea who Musto is. I mostly know of Alig because his crimes involved the son of Paul Auster and Lydia Davis

Philip Martin, writer of Vengeance on Maros and Mindwarp for the Colin Baker Doctor Who, plus the unfilmed Mission To Magnus and various Big Finish audios, and also Gangsters and Starcops.

Philip Martin, writer of Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp, has passed away. Philip was a guest on our live show at Gallifrey One in 2018, and then was kind enough later on in the weekend to talk to us about his seminal TV series Gangsters, plus his work on Star Cops. pic.twitter.com/HIEGWyjN9Q

— Radio Free Skaro (@RadioFreeSkaro) December 27, 2020

Charles Campion, restaurant critic and enthusiastic eater.

Charles Campion was a great and lovely man, with a brilliantly droll sense of humour. And boy he knew his subject. I held my breath when he was at the @MasterChefUK table to find out whether I’d screwed up a point of detail and he was gently going to put me right. A great loss. https://t.co/SvgAtj7Qsb

— Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) December 26, 2020

The last (and who knows, maybe the final) time that someone tried to chat me up in a gay bar, he revealed that he used to share Skype wank calls with incarcerated Michael Alig. That made me feel... special.

lol!

Sad to hear the passing of Martin Lambie Nairn over Christmas. MLB was a visionary designer, the original Channel 4 logo from 1982 still looks like it was designed in the future #graphicdesign #televisiongraphics #martinlambienairn pic.twitter.com/V253TDHLRq

— John Rooney (@jrooneyresearch) December 27, 2020

Martin Lambie Nairn, TV designer and animator - probably best known for the spinning 4 logo for Channel 4 launch.

(was it spitting image that had a credit at the end of it that was something like 'based on an original lunch with MLN')

(ha, yes, it's on his wikipedia page)

Morbs is yelling at you for not knowing who Musto is

ha.

I just found that comment weird. Like a lot of times people mention names of people I'm not familiar with and my first instinct is to look it up and not get mad that someone assumes I know who they are?

Yours is the correct response

I mean, as the guy who posted the comment/link to start with, I just figured "If you care enough to know about Alig, you know about Musto and why noting his reaction is rather appropriate!"

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues, and then digging in your ignorant heels instead of taking two seconds to google a name.

Maybe I'm just a Musto expert because I've spotted him going into the 6th ave Bed Bath and Beyond on multiple occasions, often with Lynn Yaeger in tow. Google that name.

Feeling that.

Mexican composer Armando Manzanero, aged 85. You may be familiar with his song "Somos novios" aka "It's Impossible."

Maybe should have put that on the COVID-19 thread.

well he did die too

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues, and then digging in your ignorant heels instead of taking two seconds to google a name.

― scampopo (suzy), Monday, December 28, 2020 9:12 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or perhaps people have more important things to care about than the absolutely banal bullshit of NYC nightlife? Who the fuck cares who Michael Musto is? I've been a club kid and I don't even know what he looks like, nor do I care. This attitude fucking sucks and smacks of serious elitist bullshit imho.

Also, Michael Musto as a chronicler of "queer issues"= me laughing my ass off. Not any issues I give a fuck about.

And we live in Reading, UK.

We've been to NY but.

TTITT, give over - telling someone to Google a prominent individual to add to their knowledge is the opposite of elitism. Go hassle someone else who might be intimidated by your schtick because baby, I’m bored now.

What attitude? The attitude isn’t how dare you NOT know who Musto is. It’s “excuse me for mentioning musto and not including a detailed biography in the case that you might not know who musto is”

In any case he was all over the newspapers, all over vh1 or whatever. Why not just google who he is if it’s such a problem?

What is even happening rn

Okay this last broke the tension and made me lol

Musto been something I ate

Add me to this thread because i am dying

come on people itt, read the tomb.

Ha!

You're telling me that this isn't an aggressive way to frame something that no one with any sense would give a shit about?

There’s just something aggressively anti-intellectual about not having heard of a four-plus decade chronicler of NYC nightlife and queer issues

Reads as pretty aggro to me.

It's the attitude, "how dare you not know who this totally marginal, unimportant person is! Why don't you Google it, you nincompoop!"

Go hassle someone else who might be intimidated by your schtick because baby, I’m bored now.

Defending your shitty attitude by continuing to have a shitty attitude doesn't do you any favors. I've never had a notable interaction with you on this board, so pray tell, what's my schtick that so annoys you? Having a different perspective than yours?

Pierre Cardin

BREAKING: Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98, France’s Academy of Fine Arts says. https://t.co/hM3UU8hPdd

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 29, 2020

cannot read his name without then singing it in the mellifluous way of the adverts for his perfume back in the day

... people you thought were dead who are now dead.

People Who Dead

As though we're supposed to know who Pierre Cardin is lol

Is he related to Cardin B? No. Then forget him.

Googled him. Appears he made handkerchiefs or something, which no one with any sense would give a shit about.

I will steadfastly refuse to mourn someone who is French, looked like a prat and is someone whom I've never even fucking heard of.

Didn't Pierre Cardin design the Space Force uniforms? I seem to recall reading that in an AP obit

Thread officially lit af its what they wouldve wanted

I didn’t know the musto person and can’t say that I “give a shit” but come on that was a fucking absurd response to Ned posting “musto on alig” plus a link. What the fuck is wrong with you lmao

Don’t even have to google, could have just... clicked the link, if interested. Or ignored

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of the rolling obituary thread. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

- Derek Jarman

tables response wasn't to ned afaict

the response to ned was

Musto on Alig

As though we're supposed to know who Musto is lol

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, December 26, 2020 8:42 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

is that what you found absurd?