V principled
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Robert Morris. Minimalist artist
https://www.artforum.com/news/robert-morris-1931-2018-77802
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
George H.W. Bush, 94
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
Alone and unloved we can only hope
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 1 December 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
Steered Nation Through Turbulent Era
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 December 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
41 PASSES AT 94...'Kinder, Gentler Nation'...World events shaped presidency...War, oil, politics...Man with golden resume...THE POLITICAL DYNASTY...LIFE IN PHOTOS...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 1 December 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
Was he the pretzel guy or what that his son?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
the one that already looked like an embalmed corpse for the last 3 decades.
― calzino, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:32 (five years ago) link
Threw up on a Japanese Prime Minister, got you now.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:52 (five years ago) link
rest in piece georgia bush, u will be mist
https://media.giphy.com/media/l3vRm5in3u3MJhgE8/giphy.gif
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Saturday, 1 December 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Ken Berry
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-berry-dead-f-troop-mamas-family-star-was-85-999739
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
who remains of the song-and-dance-men
― mookieproof, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
Seeing on Facebook--Memphis Jazz and r'n'b guitarist Calvin Newborn passed away today.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:10 (five years ago) link
As is becoming my routine on this thread, here's Gilbert Gottfried's recent-ish (2015) interview with Berry:
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/ken-berry/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 2 December 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link
RIP. Do his appearances on The Carol Burnett Show get a mention in the obits?
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
And RIP Calvin Newborn as well
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
Sorry, don’t think I watched too many of the 130 episodes of Mama’s Family, maybe none to completion. Impressed with the long list of guest star appearances on myriad non-Carol Burnett related shows.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
Could just about barely take Mama & Co. at non-lethal sketch length.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
So it’s mentioned that Mayberry R.F.D. was cancelled by CBS as part of the “rural purge.” I wonder how often Ken Berry and Roy Clark crossed paths.
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
This article is full of interesting detail: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge?wprov=sfti1
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
this is an interesting contrast to the moonves-led regular bro and hot corpse uprising of the 90s
― maura, Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
Kevin Grisham's The Rural Perjuror.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Rural juror?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
oh wait I see
Funny, I never really thought about any sort of rural purge, but yeah, I remember all those hillbilly shows. Dukes of Hazzard, too, I suppose.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Right made that Rural Juror joke myself. Think Dukes of Hazzard was later, when those shows started coming back, The New Wave of Rural Ruckus
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Dukes was post-Smokey, pure Carter Country.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Dukes might have been part of the Prime Time Stunt Man Pension Plan, along with A-Team and The Fall Guy.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
Larry Storch lives
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Exactly
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
DJ Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson.
― suzy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Cycling commentator and former pro rider Paul Sherwen, aged 62
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
no way. link?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-62"> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/paul-sherwen-broadcaster-cyclist-dies-aged-6233 years covering the Tour and 7 riding. Has always felt like he and Liggett would go forever.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 3 December 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
yeah 33 years of commentary is nothing to sneeze at. He drove me bananas but I will miss him :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 3 December 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
NZ film director Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie, The Quiet Earth)https://variety.com/2018/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-geoff-murphy-dies-dead-new-zealand-1203079148/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Hearing unconfirmed reports via a usually reliable friend that Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has passed away.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
Yep http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46476369
― Alba, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Damn, RIP.
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
RIP Pete. What a brilliant, brilliant artist.
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
And a really friendly guy, the couple of times I spoke to him.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
RIP, one of the greats
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
fuck, rip pete :(
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
David Mossman, ex taxi driver and Vortex Club founder passed away on Friday night.
― calzino, Sunday, 9 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
Chicago blues guitarist Jody Williams RIP at 83 . He played on famed sides like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "I’m Bad," Howlin’ Wolf’s "Evil" and "Forty Four" and Sonny Boy Williamson’s "Don’t Start Me Talking."... He began performing at clubs at the age of 17, and within a few years became the house guitarist at Chess Records, a role he served in until he was called into the army in 1958.
Though he had backed a varied list of artists including Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles during his time at Chess, Williams left the music industry after returning to Chicago in 1960. He would only return in 2000
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jody-williams-famed-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-at-83
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
33-year-old singer Jackson Aluta Kazimoto, known as Dogo Jackie or Jackie Simela, of great Tanzanian band Jagwa Music died in a car accident
https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/tanzania-jagwa-music-frontman-dies
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Potential heir to Howard Hughes Melvin Dummarhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/900045831/utahn-melvin-dummar-who-claimed-to-be-a-howard-hughes-heir-dies.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Sondra Locke
http://extratv.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwoods-ex-girlfriend-oscar-nominee-sondra-locke-dead-at-74/
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
^^In November, but just publicized now.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
someone needs to show The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
RIP Sondra
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
you'd think they could at least put 'clint's ex-girlfriend' *after* 'oscar nominee'
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 December 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link