Oh this is so sad. Puts our grumbles about the snow into perspective.
I wonder how David Frost will cover it on TWTWTW.
― Billy Dods, Friday, 15 February 2008 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Let's hope they don't make the mistake of going all gooey and sentimental, like getting Millicent Martin to sing "Three Bells" or something.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
guys... this totally sucks. :(
― chaki, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Phil Spector Christmas Album now going for £2.99 on Amazon...
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or have all the radio stations stopped playing music?
Are Gerry and the Pacemakers "Merseybeat"? What's a Mersey?
― 2for25, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Good riddance to another vapid, mindless celebrity.
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, February 15, 2008 11:30 AM (0 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― n/a, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't want to be the one to call out the instant canonisation here, but this guy was kind of a dick in South America, remember?
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 February 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, I bet the Americans bomb Cuba to fuck over this - we could be in the early days of World War 3 already :(
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
At least the suspect is safely in police hands
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
US radio stations USELESS!
A nation in MOURNING and all they can do is play BLAND POPIST PAP by fly-by-night NME hypes like the BEATLES!
Systems thinking can solve this mess - all radio programmers to be SACKED and REPLACED by AWARE PROACTIVE programmers with full knowledge of diverse music spectra including developments in HARD FORMALIST ORNETTECORE, VARESE SPUNKWAVE and TRAD FADELA.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
TRAD FAVELA even.
In the light of this, I think all competitive sport should be suspended immediately. I can't see the point in continuing with a triviality like the current English football season.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the games must go on...we're all PATRIOTS now...
― henry s, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
LIVERPOOL THRASH ARSENAL 5-0 TO WIN LEAGUE
Benitez Given Job For Life; Police Talk Wenger Down From Archway Bridge
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man now I'm really bummed out, although I hadn't even checked out that much Kennedy. Any recs?
― Hurting 2, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
any word yet about a JFK Memorial design competition?
― henry s, Friday, 15 February 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Robert Frost has also died :-(
Again? Didn't he die like a year ago or something? Something there is that doesn't like the grave.
― Casuistry, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Police correspondent Alex Drake quipped "it's all a dream, I'm in 1963world" at a special press conference.
"Don't try it" added 34-year-old British tourist and witness to the shooting John Ravenscroft.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Ummmm hi? Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative
― Hadrian VIII, Saturday, 16 February 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It will take Billy Joel to put this into some sort of meaningful context for me.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
guys my roomate's uncle Abe was there and had his home movie camera.
he just uploaded this to youtube:
***warning: not for the faint of heart***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg07N9OrKW8&feature=related
― gr8080, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
uh hello we are in mourning here, no grody fake video, your uncle max is a real L7
― Dimension 5ive, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it's a shop i've seen a few blah blah pixels blah
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
off-topic but if any of you ever go down to Dallas, there's a strip joint called The Carousel you should check out.
― gershy, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
yo is it true kennedy got sonned by a wite kid after a cuba beef??????
― murderdogger, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:41 (sixteen years ago) link
why'd they take him to Parkland did he not have insurnce
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 05:53 (sixteen years ago) link
What's that white stuff Jackie's so desperate to collect? OMG he was smuggling drugs in his head for the mob!
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Some guy just walked directly up to Lee Henry Oswald and shot him on TV I am crapping you negative
This is totally fucked up. They have the suspect of the biggest crime of the century and he's not protected. Makes me think that someone wanted him shut up because he could name the people who were bankrolling him. I don't buy it that he was a lone nutjob, it must be the Soviets behind it.
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 16 February 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of the political blogs are now claiming there was a second gunman, up on some grassy knoll somewhere. Mentalists as far as I'm concerned, that'll never stick.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
(meta note: This thread is dangerously close to starting an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination, CIO.)
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
It is an actual discussion about the Kennedy assassination! Have you had blinders on in the past few days, you fucking beatnik?
As far as those conspiracy theories, I heard that someone told all the Jews to stay out of Dealy Plaza on Friday.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
white is black and black is white
― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2007/0707/jfk_style_0702.jpg
― Eazy, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, guys, let's put down the Carling Black Label and face facts, this guy was only human and just as corrupt as the rest of our presidents...except for FDR, Wilson, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Teddy - now they were some infallible guys with no skeletons in their closets.
Kennedy was a hothead with next to no policy experience who nearly got us into the next Big One just a few months ago - or have you knuckleheads already forgotten in the rush to make him the next Marilyn Monroe? Now there was a death worth bemoaning - someone who really stood for America in a way you could get behind. If we ever even hear the name Kennedy in politics again I'd be very surprised.
The only consolation for all this hand-wringing is that Johnson has got his head screwed on straight. I'm counting on him to follow up all the empty promises of Kennedy's presidency with real change; we should be okay so long as he doesn't get us entangled in any military quagmires. (The rubes are talking about Indochina but anyone with any understanding of geopolitics should understand that the next big fight is going to be over the Finnish border.) 'Nuff said!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
This is bumming me out, but I'm not going to completely despair. I think there's a lot of promise in his little brother Bobby.
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Has someone from Europe blamed the US' right to bear arms yet? Let me be the first then!
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
mail-order gun? mail-order fun more like it
― latebloomer, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there's a lot of promise in his little brother Bobby
Surely it's time for America to look beyond one political family and to get a colored president. It's kind of a crazy idea and I know some of you are going to say it's too soon. But this guy's on a roll after that big march and I hear he's up for the Nobel prize next. Now's the time to seize the initiative... http://paskewich.typepad.com/paskewichcom/images/martin_luther_king.gif
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
multi xpost Tragic that Monroe and Kennedy both died so young, they would have made a beautiful couple.
Still, look on the bright side, Jackie Kennedy's single. Lady Bird Johnson's definitely not my first lady ;-)
― Billy Dods, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
(meta again -- ok, this thread is actually pretty depressing. I mean... can you IMAGINE...?)
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't vote for MLK if he ran in the primaries against Bobby or Lyndon. BFK and LBJ has already done much for the black community. They're experienced. I know that MLK has been skeptical of the rumblings in Indochina, but really, he's just all talk about fairy tales, a dreamweaver.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think you're right, I mean what more could blacks want? They need to trust that LBJ does the right thing. To be honest I cannot see a time when America will be ready for a black president. Maybe a woman?! Yeah, right, I know.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
MLK gave them a deram
http://quechido.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/15/i_also_have_a_dream.png
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
What's with this grammar, is that ebonics?
http://i29.tinypic.com/6ib1ub.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
ok now this is just icky. fuck off, guys.
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
well, at least we have the younger kennedy brothers, especially teddy. i feel he will inspire young people, mostly young women, to go places they would have never gone to otherwise.
― gershy, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder about Teddy this weekend. I hope he doesn't drown in his sorrows.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't believe Teddy was elected to the senate. All he ever does is drink and chaffeur his brothers' friends around, the useless sod.
xp
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I think he got elected because of his looks, to be honest.
http://www.celtic-music.com/images/photos/thumbs/edward_kennedy.jpg
I'm telling you, women DROP DEAD for that guy!
― kenan, Saturday, 16 February 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
YOU HAVE COLOUR TV NOW?! NO WAI
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 16 February 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link