Lou Harris, king of the pollsters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lou-harris-pollster-for-presidents-and-others-officeholders-dies-at-95/2016/12/19/e7f49c2a-c626-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.ba6498f61055
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 December 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Status Quo's Rick Parfitt dies
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Saturday, 24 December 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Vesna Vulovic who survived falling what may or may not have been 10,000 metres without a parachute in 1972.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/24/vesna-vulovic-serbian-survivor-of-fall-from-plane-explosion-dies-at-66
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Saturday, 24 December 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
RIP Alexandrov Ensemble:(
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 December 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Well, multiple members thereof
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 December 2016 13:21 (seven years ago) link
Aka The Red Army Choir (there seem to be two of these)
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 December 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Man, whoever's booking entertainment for the Trump inaugural just can't catch a break.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 25 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rv1CTZSIU0
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 December 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
george michael
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 December 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
:(
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
the actual
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
you gotta be fucking kidding me
― nomar, Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
george michaelhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862🔗
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862🔗
― maura, Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Wow.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
i can't even
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
:-(
I went for lunch at the Miller at Mansfield pub in Goring just before Christmas with someone who lives in the village who told me that George Michael regularly came in, but also that he now weighed over 20 stone (280lb, 127kg) and even though his house was only 200 metres away he would always drive there.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 26 December 2016 10:18 (seven years ago) link
George Michael R.I.P.
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Monday, 26 December 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
Jazz-funk drummer Alphonse Mouzon. First drummer for Weather Report, solo artist, played on several excellent McCoy Tyner albums in the 70s, and a million other records.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 26 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
^^ Source of the amazing drum sample from his album Funky Snakefoot that starts off the Beastie Boys' "Shake Your Rump-a" on Paul's Boutique. And a great album in its own right, too!
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 26 December 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit, my dad worked with Alphonse, he's going to be super bummed out. Incredible drummer.
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Monday, 26 December 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
Wait. Was your dad a musician? *slaps forehead*
― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 December 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Ricky Harris
http://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/celebrities-react-to-ricky-harris-hip-hop-skits-died
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
At 95, actress Liz Smith
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link
Aw, Richard Adams. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38446309
― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
had no idea he was still alive
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I read this fast and thought it was the gossip columnist Liz Smith. That Liz Smith is still alive at 93! (Very nice person too).
― Josefa, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
vera rubin
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/vera-rubin-who-confirmed-%E2%80%9Cdark-matter%E2%80%9D-dies
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Um …
People magazine is saying Carrie Fisher is dead.
http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down.
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Fisher
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
fuck
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Oh, FFS.
― jane burkini (suzy), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Awful for Debbie Reynolds.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
FUCK dammit I wanted her to pull thru
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
aww goddammit :(
― MY MUTANT BRAIN WILL DETECT TREACHERY! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKAEXeBFejA
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure I've told this story before but I went to the 2005 Washington, DC charity premiere of Revenge of the Sith and sat right in front of Fisher and Reynolds. She was going to sign something for me but security stopped her. My wife caught a quick picture of them when security wasn't looking.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15726897_10154457494933800_6632406447011406686_n.jpg?oh=ac69e3815d991c25042c98da85e14186&oe=58E97ACE
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7PY6ewR.png
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
At that rate, in 200 years everyone will be dead.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
is philip seymour hoffman alive again yet
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Lemmy (in response to an interviewer's question about the line "I don't want to live forever" from 'Ace of Spades'): "Actually, I’d like to die the year before forever. To avoid the rush…"
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
omg
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
please tell me thats real
it is
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
http://mickwall.com/2016/04/lemmy-book-extract/
― maura, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Fisher was on the panel for this year's 8 Out of 10 Cats Christmas special.https://youtu.be/5ioTCY4YFD0
― Devilock, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
she was really great, I have always been impressed by her performances in the original SW trilogy tbh. Only 20 and so confident and holding her own against that cast in a role that could have been completely moronic. I always thought her and Ford were the MVPs in that film for the levity and charisma they had, theirs were the kind of roles and performances missing in EP 1-3. And she was such a valuable cultural figure right til the end. I have a lot of admiration for her.
― nomar, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
The only book of her I ever consumed was the audiobook of "Delusions of Grandma," which she naturally read and performed herself. I remember enjoying it, and her being droll as fuck.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Was really surreal when Carrie Fisher was on QI talking about bleaching Bill Bailey's anus.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link