Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

Amiri Baraka.

Trumpeter/composer Roy Campbell, Jr.

(no obit online yet; saw the news posted by his friends and collaborators in my fb feed)

wow amiri baraka.

sportswriter bill conlin -- really weird feeling that it at least fleetingly occurred to me to list him in dead pool picks (which i posted today) but didnt - seems like there should be a german word for this feeling

:(( amiri baraka

Reagan press mouthpiece Larry Speakes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html

some of his primo material:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/times-the-reagan-white-house-press-briefing-erupted-with

Ariel Sharon

... hot off the presses?

What a surprise

baruch dayan emet

Alexandra Bastedo:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/alexandra-bastedo-actress-best-known-for-her-role-in-the-1960s-television-scifi-series-the-champions-dies-9054808.html

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins

Detroit-based psychedelic concert poster artist Gary Grimshaw

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

Oh no, RIP Roger

^ v. good as David Irving in the TV version of Selling Hitler

Bobby Collins, who played for lots of teams I like, and Leeds.

Briefly misread this as Bootsy and was bummed.

Russell Johnson of "This Gilligan's Island Earth"

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740

RIP, we are never gonna get off the island now

remember that Twilight Zone where he failed to save Lincoln?

Roger Lloyd Pack :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

― ailsa, Thursday, 16 January 2014 12:20 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh no, RIP Roger

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:26 (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i used to work in a bookshop and he used to come in to sell tapes of him reading keats and other romantic poets. they never sold anything. always wanted to say to him if he sold them as keats read in the manner of trigger he'd've had a bestseller.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-partridge-family-reuben-kincaid/

Didn't know The Prof. & Mr. Kincaid were still around. RIP guys.

Also from TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/16/playboy-playmate-cassandra-lynn-hensley-dead-overdose-od/?adid=hero3

jeez, terrible day for my childhood sitcom foils, be they straight men or slow burners

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/final-female-oz-munchkin-ruth-duccini-dead-at/article_ff6f20f6-0367-5697-a512-3ff806d3086d.html

There's one left.

I think it's weird that people keep track of the number of living Wizard of Oz munchkins, but whatever.

The last munchkin will reap the reward of a sweetass tontine.

the entire trove of the Lollipop Guild

I'm assuming Danny Partridge must have killed the Professor, just to make sure Reuben didn't get the spotlight for even a day.

Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192

the dude was insane

he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island

> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender

that article says there was another one found a few months later

"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.

Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."

a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army

not Japanese then

says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)

(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)

( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )

( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )

Does it honestly matter, Andy?

"calling out a dude by his real name when shit gets heated" thread, RIP 2010 (iirc)

no, was just interesting reading about it all.

the brainwash effect of an extreme disciplinary culture

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/

punky and garage-rock sounds drummer and label owner

Lord McAlpine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25792289

I'm not sure I can believe that until Sally Bercow tweets about it.

Ha, I expect there are a million twitterers with their fingers poised thinking "hmmm, can I?".

A "dedicated supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party". RIP out of the question then.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72372000/jpg/_72372821_komla-foa.jpg

Komla Dumor, BBC news presenter, 41 heart attack, unexpected.

Claudio Abbado:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/20/conductor-claudio-abbado-dies-aged-80

One of the best Italian conductors of the modern era.

Steven Fromholz:

http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/austin-music-source/2014/jan/19/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-/

http://artsfuse.org/120300/fuse-remembrance-bishop-lee-mitchell-an-appreciation/

excerpt:

A beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness, according to social media reports from his friends and family. Mitchell was 75.

One of the leading deep soul websites called the Alabama-born Mitchell “one of the great unknowns who never made a bad disc” because of the staggering secular 45s he released in the ’60s and ’70s.

After moving to Boston in 1958, Mitchell replaced the renowned Bill Moss in the Bibletones. In 1967 he cut a record for Sure Shot, a label owned by the infamous Texas wheeler and dealer Don Robey. The discs he made in the ’70s weren’t big hits, but in recent years they’ve been spun by the legendary British DJ John Peel and fetched upwards of $350 on eBay. According to one story, Mitchell was offered “Let’s Stay Together” before Al Green cut it but turned it down. Sessions for the great Alabama producer Neal Hemphill resulted in a few 45s, but the full album has still never seen the light of day.

Recent years?

Never mind..