Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Heh. Mrs. Redd has often referred to Colina as “Squidward” due to his purported resemblance to a certain cartoon co-worker.
(xp!)

this Grenadian UK guy who was known as "Chicken" - christian name William - died the other day. He was a crook and a conman, but the most hilarious person I ever worked with. His son is known as "Young Chicken" in Brackenhall and had to live with the curse of being quite an average person!

Are we doing the death pool for 23 or tallying up who won 2022?

Were we still doing that?

I think last time, I had Mark E Smith on my list...

The last year that Henry Kissinger will be worth any points!

Character actor Earl Boen, best know for his role as the psychiatrist in the Terminator movies

Also did a lot of narration and voices for WoW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCr7y4SLhck

Russell Banks (announced by Paul Schrader on Facebook)

Adam Rich, ‘Eight Is Enough’ actor, dead at 54

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html

"As part of a satire on celebrity death, Rich participated in a 1996 hoax which falsely reported his passing, as written by “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave Eggers, for Might Magazine."

Owen Roizman, Cinematographer of The French Connection, The Exorcist and More, Has Died at 86

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/owen-roizman-cinematographer-of-the-french-connection-the-exorcist-and-more-has-died-at-86

Also seeing John DeVries of Agitpop

Singer Jeff Blackburn, of Blackburn & Snow and occasional Neil Young collaborator (The Ducks and most famously as co-writer of "My My Hey Hey (Out of The Blue)")

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLUs5rsBI9/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lZGS99oRig

Poet Charles Simic:

We mourn the death of Charles Simic (1938–2023), who since 1999 wrote 175 essays and poems for The New York Review, on subjects ranging from Saul Steinberg to the Fourth of July to gun violence to Buster Keaton. https://t.co/uR7PCUTF5V pic.twitter.com/zomjn1wCUn

— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) January 9, 2023

Silk, of right-wing grifters Diamond and Silk.

wait was she not just hospitalized with Covid

Yep.

Wow! Very strange!

Diamond, not Silk

Trump announces that Diamond of Diamond and Silk has passed away pic.twitter.com/TUhpEVUPiG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 10, 2023

just came across this...her family, is already grifting off her deathhttps://t.co/kzHiBotMxU

— Art Martin (@gartmartin9) January 10, 2023

gofundme.com/DiamondsArentForever

New York Times writer (formerly of Politico) Blake Hounshell appears to have committed suicide. There's a Times email circulating on Twitter that says he "has suddenly died this morning after a long and courageous battle with depression."

Adolfo Kaminsky’s talent was as banal as could be: He knew how to remove supposedly indelible blue ink from paper. But it was a skill that helped save the lives of thousands of Jews in France during World War II. https://t.co/Lz9bYs38D4

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) January 10, 2023

Singer Luqman Brown, who worked with Burnt Sugar and had his own project, Dope Sagittarius. Apparently he had a heart transplant late last year and it didn't take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9St-uddBmT8

Simic was a beast of bleak, bizarre poetry.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charles-simic

Very subjective opinion there

OK

Sorry for the rudeness, I just can’t with him, not the thread for it tho.

Cardinal George Pell

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/11/george-pell-dead-australian-cardinal-dies-aged-81-rome-vatican

I was going to ask where to start with Simic; I know a handful of lyrics.

and, yeah, table, that was pretty fucking rude to an ILXer who also writes poetry. You could, like, explain why Simic's a mediocre or bad poet without insulting the poster.

And maybe better to do it in a poetry thread than here (although the spirit of Morbs in the room may disagree).

and, yeah, table, that was pretty fucking rude to an ILXer who also writes poetry. You could, like, explain why Simic's a mediocre or bad poet without insulting the poster.

(I mean that, the apology and the happy sentiment, sincerely)

lool

might have gone either way, whether table would use charles simic's death to establish his edginess by shitting on anyone who liked him vs. calling charles simic a dear friend whom none of you people truly understand

having chosen option one, he is truly, sincerely happy that you enjoy such dreck

Fuck's sake. Patti Boyd tweeted that Jeff Beck is dead. No other confirmation. People have then been sharing text starting "Jeff Beck Death Hoax Dismissed Since Guitarist Is ‘Alive And Well’"
Except THAT text is from a "satire" site with millions of articles

— Andrew Hickey (Specified Parody Account) (@HickeyWriter) January 10, 2023

Apparently Simic tweeted only once:

twisted my ankle this morning

— Charles Simic (@CharlieSimic) June 26, 2010

I am trying to move on from yucking others’ yums, I am sorry that I did so here.

Tatjana Patitz, whom you may remember from Freedom 90

O wow. RIP.

All good, table.

Jeff Beck

Holy shit. Truly one of a kind.

is it being reported officially now?

ya

damn :(

Apparently he was partying with Dave Davies the other night... the family said it was a quick bout of bacterial meningitis

What an extraordinary life https://t.co/icdrqfLYUV https://t.co/EabEbf7700

— James Mackenzie 🐀v (@mrjamesmack) January 12, 2023

RIP Jane Suck. We were compatriots and partners in strange for a crucial few months in later 1977 and early 1978. We concocted this editorial together in Nov 77: she had pride of place as she was the best writer out of all of us pic.twitter.com/90LMH90ZN1

— Jon Savage (@JonSavage1966) January 12, 2023

Yikes!