Steve Walsh, press secretary for Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, has died after catching COVID-19, according to his wife, state Rep. Sara Walsh, who is looking to primary Vicky Hartlzer for her seat in the US House.
The couple both contracted COVID-19, and Sara Walsh told KCRG in early August that she and her husband had chosen not to receive the vaccine.
On August 2, the day before Sara Walsh first announced her husband was on a ventilator with COVID-19, six Republican legislators called on Governor Mike Parson to convene a special session of the General Assembly in hopes of blocking businesses from mandating vaccines for employees.
Met him once, briefly. I recognized him, and I was wearing a Stones t-shirt, so he knew I’d been to the concert the prev night.
We weren’t introduced; he just spoke to me.
We were the only two people having super early breakfast in a fancy hotel. I was already there.
He was, for some reason, given the table next to mine, when I was close to being done. He asked me whether I liked whatever I had ordered (some sort of fancy eggs). He got the same thing.
We chatted for about 5 minutes, but I was done w breakfast and I didn’t want to presume on his time or attention, so I thanked him for the concert and got up to leave.
Just after that another “rock-and-roll” looking person came in the room to sit at his table. They clearly knew each other. So I guess my exit timing was decent.
In our conversation, he said that during the later stops in the tour itinerary, everyone was pretty tired;
they tried to keep it from showing in their performances.
He joked about “playing while unconscious”
(unconscious zombie mental state while performing was due to tour fatigue, not to “entertainment pharmaceuticals”, in his case).
@f00l Wow, what an amazing encounter!
He certainly seemed like an exception to the stereotype of the colosally arrogant and obnoxious rock star, even though he was one of the greatest.
That was a damned fine tour.
But they did a bunch of damned fine tours.
If they go ahead with one this year is well prob be worthy.
Tho I prob won’t go. Aversion to spending time in large crowded venues is a bigger motivator for me now.
Ed Asner, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant, Elf, and Up, has died at age 91.
He has the record for most primetime Emmys won by a make actor. He is one of two actors to win both Drama and Comedy Emmys playing the same character (in different series).
He was also president of the Screen Actors Guild, where his political views were a sharp change from those of his predecessor, Charlton Heston.
From Vanity Fair
“The world for me is divided into three spaces,” Ed Asner told AM New York in 2016. Those spaces: “Lou Grant, Up, and Elf.” While those are his most identifiable credits, they only hint at the breadth and depth of this consummate character actor and controversial activist, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.
In the days to come, expect to see this Asner clip a lot. You should know which one without even clicking on it. His impeccably-timed delivery of one of the most quoted lines in television history—“I hate spunk,” barked at job applicant Mary Richards in the pilot episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show—instantly and indelibly defined newsman Lou Grant, the character Asner embodied and made iconic for seven seasons on that show, and then for another five on the spin-off series, Lou Grant.
Asner knew he had nailed the “spunk” scene. “I felt such power at that moment,” he told V.F. in 2017. “I could command those 300 people [in the audience] to march into the sea if it was nearby.”
@f00l truly a great actor with memorable characters to his credit(s). Always reminded me of my FIL… who was also what my kids called a “burnt marshmallow” at his memorial service (hard and crusty outside but actually soft and sweet on the inside…)
I didn’t realize Pournelle was gone. Or else I knew and then forgot.
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He was enormous part of my life and of my friends’ lives back during the era where we read magazines in order to find out what was going on in the world of personal computing
I guess I lost track of him through laziness after magazines became irrelevant to personal computing
@f00l One of my neighbors had a ZX80 and used to ask me for help with it (I owned an Apple ][plus so I was supposed to be the neighborhood expert). It was an interesting way to get started back then…
Colin Powell, Who Shaped U.S. National Security, Dies at 84
A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state and national security adviser, Mr. Powell died on Monday of complications of Covid-19, his family said.
Colin L. Powell, who in four decades of public life served as the nation’s top soldier, diplomat and national security adviser, and whose speech at the United Nations in 2003 helped pave the way for the United States to go to war in Iraq, died on Monday. He was 84.
He died of complications of Covid-19, his family said in a statement, adding that he had been vaccinated and was treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., where he died. Mr. Powell had undergone treatment for multiple myeloma, which compromised his immune system, a spokeswoman said.
Mr. Powell was a pathbreaker, serving as the country’s first Black national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state. Beginning with his 35 years in the Army, Mr. Powell was emblematic of the ability of minorities to use the military as a ladder of opportunity.
His was a classic American success story. Born in Harlem of Jamaican parents, Mr. Powell grew up in the South Bronx and graduated from City College of New York, joining the Army through ROTC. Starting as a young second lieutenant commissioned in the dawn of a newly desegregated Army, Mr. Powell served two decorated combat tours in Vietnam. He later was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War, helping negotiate arms treaties and an era of cooperation with the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.
In an interview with The New York Times in 2007, Mr. Powell analyzed himself: “Powell is a problem-solver. He was taught as a soldier to solve problems. So he has views, but he’s not an ideologue. He has passion, but he’s not a fanatic. He’s first and foremost a problem-solver.”
Once retired, Mr. Powell, a lifelong independent while in uniform, was courted as a presidential contender by both Republicans and Democrats, and became America’s most political general since Dwight D. Eisenhower. He wrote a best-selling memoir, “My American Journey,” and flirted with a run for the presidency before deciding in 1995 that campaigning for office wasn’t for him.
He returned to public service in 2001 as secretary of state to President George W. Bush, whose father Mr. Powell had served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs a decade earlier. In taking the job, Mr. Powell followed the footsteps of one of his heroes, Gen. George Marshall, who served as secretary of state to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
But in the Bush administration, Mr. Powell was the odd man out, fighting internally with Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for the ear of President Bush and for foreign policy dominance.
He left at the end of Mr. Bush’s first term under the cloud of an ever-worsening war in Iraq, and growing questions about whether he could have and should have done more to object to it.
He kept a low profile for the next few years, but with just over two weeks left in the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Powell, by now a declared Republican, gave a forceful endorsement to Senator Barack Obama, calling him a “transformational figure.” Mr. Powell’s backing was criticized by conservative Republicans. But it eased the doubts among some independents, moderates and even some moderates in his own party, and largely neutralized concerns about Mr. Obama’s lack of experience to be commander in chief.
When it came time to elect Mr. Obama’s successor, Mr. Powell continued his support of Democrats, saying he would vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald J. Trump. Before the election, he expressed disgust for Mr. Trump in a batch of leaked emails that a Powell spokesman confirmed as authentic.
“Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah,” Mr. Powell wrote in one email. Mr. Trump’s attacks on the issue of Mr. Obama’s birth also troubled him, the emails made clear. “Yup, the whole birther movement was racist,” he said.
Mr. Powell backed Joseph R. Biden Jr., delivering a message of support for him at the 2020 Democratic national convention.
…
This is only a small portion of the NYT obit, which includes a detailed history of his military and his politically influential career following his military retirement. It’s interesting and we’ll worth the read for many reasons. The article did cover guess Airbnb to the UN in 2003 justifying the then current IRAQ war plans; Powell had been deceived on the evidence at that time.
The beautiful Peter Scolari has died at age 66 after a 2-year battle with cancer. You may remember him best from Bosom Buddies, Newhart, Honey I Shrunk the Kids the syndicated series, possibly Girls, or, most recently, Evil. I have loved him for over 40 years and am sad.
Please enjoy the opening credits of Bosom Buddies, in which we very briefly see him riding a unicycle, because that’s not a skill that gets enough attention nowadays.
/image peter scolari bosom buddies
/image peter scolari newhart
/image peter scolari honey i shrunk the kids
/image peter scolari girls
/image peter scolari evil
The official global virus death toll has passed five million. The full count is undoubtedly higher.
(Funeral in Mexico)
The coronavirus is responsible for more than five million confirmed deaths around the world as of Monday, according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Such a loss would wipe out almost the entire population of Melbourne, Australia, or most of the nation of Singapore.
Experts say that five million is an undercount. Many countries are unable to accurately record the number of people who have died from Covid-19, like India and African nations; experts have questioned the veracity of data from other countries, like Russia.
“All of these estimates still rely on data being available, or someone going and collecting it before antibodies and local memories wane,” said Adam Kucharski, an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who mathematically analyzes infectious disease outbreaks. “Globally, there will have been numerous local tragedies going unreported.”
The real number of people lost to Covid-19 could be underestimated by “a multiple of two to 10,” said Denis Nash, an epidemiologist at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.
The pace of confirmed deaths seems to have slowed slightly since the world reached four million in early July, despite the rapid spread of the Delta variant since then — a sign that the spread of vaccines could be having an impact, at least in some parts of the world. It took nine months for the virus to kill one million people, three and a half more to reach two million, another three to claim three million and about two and a half to exceed four million.
The United States leads all other countries, with more than 745,000 deaths confirmed in total. The nations with the highest reported death tolls after the United States are, in order, Brazil, India, Mexico and Russia.
The global rate of reported deaths climbed over the past two weeks after trending downward for much of September and the first half of October, but at an average of over 7,000 deaths per day remains about 3,000 less than its August peak. The World Health Organization said last week in a report on pandemic conditions that confirmed deaths had increased in Europe and Southeast Asia, and declined in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Dr. Nash said that the death rate appeared to be slowing “in places around the world where we are doing a good job at counting deaths, which also happen to be places in the world that have the best access to vaccines.”
But, he continued, “I think there are places where there are increases in the death rates, but we’re just not measuring them.”
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@f00l@RiotDemon I have steadfastly refused to watch any more of Blue Velvet than this clip, because in my mind it is a movie about the passionate love affair between these two beautiful middle-aged men. I don’t want to know anything else. But I guess I know that Kyle McLachlan finds an ear?
It has been revealed that NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura passed away on December 6th at the age of 78.
The Famicom – the system that would become the NES in the west – was the brainchild of Uemura, who joined Nintendo as an engineer from Sharp in 1972 at a time when it was tentatively exploring the possibilities of electronic entertainment. One of his first roles was to help with Nintendo’s range of location-based light-gun games.
When Nintendo R&D2 was created, Uemura was placed in charge and he was instrumental in the development of Nintendo’s ‘Color TV-Game’ systems – the company’s first tentative foray into the realm of domestic video games. These were very basic gaming systems that had relatively crude built-in titles.
Uemura began work on the Famicom in 1981, following a demand from Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi that he create a device capable of playing arcade games on a TV, but with games that came on interchangeable cartridges. Combined sales of the Famicom and its western counterpart, the NES, total 61.91 million units – 20 million of those were in Japan alone.
R&D2 would not only produce the Famicom but also its equally-beloved successor, the SNES / Super Famicom. He was also involved with the development of the Japan-only Famicom Disk System and Super Famicom Satellaview, as well as the iconic NES Zapper
Col. Edward Shames, the last surviving officer of Easy Company, the “Band of Brothers” popularized by the Stephen Ambrose book and the later HBO mini-series, passed away last Friday, December 3rd in his home at the age of 99. He was preceded in death by his wife of 73 years, Ida.
An interview with Col. Shames was made with the American Veterans Center in 2016.
With Col. Shames passing, only one member of Easy Company remains, PFC Bradford Freeman, now 97 years old.
@duodec@heartny
Nesmith was behind Elephant Parts, which arguably invented “music videos” as we know them today, and planted the seeds for what would become MTV.
@heartny Oh, I’ll be sad forever. The Decades Channel has been running a memorial Monkees marathon this weekend.
/youtube frank zappa mike nesmith monkees
I’m very glad I got to see Mike and Mickey at the Paramount Theater back on March 8, 2019 (Mickey’s birthday). I had a feeling they weren’t going to be going many concerts at this point. Mickey looked very arthritic. Mike just looked old.
Anne Rice, the Gothic novelist best known for her best-selling book “Interview With the Vampire,” died on Saturday. She was 80…Her son, Christopher Rice, wrote on social media that Ms. Rice died of “complications resulting from a stroke.”
…
Born in New Orleans on Oct. 4, 1941, Ms. Rice was most widely known for the novel series “The Vampire Chronicles,” the first of which was “Interview With the Vampire,” published in 1976…
“The naturalist was recognized for his work on social behavior and pheromones in ants and as a champion of wildlife conservation.” “Wilson is also credited with developing the field of sociobiology, which addresses the biological underpinnings of animal behavior” He included humans in his discussions of that.
“With the Navy needing an elite unit dedicated to counterterrorism after the Pentagon’s failure to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward hand-picked Marcinko to stand up the new SEAL team”
“Marcinko, the son of Pennsylvania coal miner, enlisted in the Navy in 1958 after dropping out of high school, according to his 1992 best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.” He completed underwater demolition training as an enlisted sailor before commission via Officer Candidate School in 1965. He deployed less than two years later to Vietnam with SEAL Team 2.”
“He picked the best SEALs and underwater demolition specialists to build what would become the Navy’s most elite and famous unit. He told SOFREP he even used the opportunity to mess with the Soviet Union — naming the unit Team Six even though only two SEAL teams existed at the time.”
“We didn’t have a [SEAL Team] three, four or five,” he said. “I picked six as a lucky number — let the Soviets figure out where the rest of them are.”"
“After leaving the Navy, Marcinko went to work in business, did motivational speaking and authored some 20 books, including multiple best-sellers. After writing about his Navy career in his autobiography, Marcinko wrote a series of novels, in which he was the protagonist.”
I’m told that the Peacock streaming.service from NBC shows this current season’s SNL episodes for free (without a viewer having to agree to a paid level of Peacock service);
with the entire episode becoming available to non-paying viewers about a week after airdate.
Before that, I’m told, Peacock just shows selected clips from a given episode, starting a bit after midnight, shortly after that episode is completed airing.
Have not tried this myself, but info came from “competent-with-details” person.
If someone wants to buy just that episode, it’s season 35, episode 21; original airdate May 08, 2010 (mother’s day episode).
$1.99 at Amazon Prime video, for instance.
These days, all the websites for the broadcast networks put all of their shows up the next day until the next episode airs. CBS, NBC, ABC, CW. Other shows on the syndication channels (Comet, Antenna, etc.) have livestreams and some back catalog on their websites too. Lots of shows on PBS have their own websites or youtube channels with post-aired episodes or the current season.
@mike808 Yep. If she had made it she might have lived forever. So few people die after their 100th birthday.
Side note, my great grandmother lived to be 103. When she was about 97 my mom told her that she wanted to dance at her (my great grandmother’s) 100th birthday party. Great Gram replied, “Well, you better take care of yourself then.”. She was smart and feisty pretty much up until the end. She probably could have lived longer but we think she got bored. A few days before she died, she told my grandmother, “Well, I guess I’ll be going soon.”. She wasn’t fatalistic or sick or anything. But she was mostly deaf and going blind and moved into a nursing home when she was 101. So we think she was just ready to see what was next.
RIP Nanci Griffith:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/15/nanci-griffith-obituary
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/08/a-big-beautiful-heart-music-lovers-mourn-the-death-of-nanci-griffith-grammy-winning-folk-singer
Wait…channel 3 died? Damn.
WHY DO YOU HATE US LORD??
@therealjrn sorry I changed the title and now this makes no sense.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Ignorant @therealjrn CHANGE IT BACK. Or not, whatever.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn NEVER!
@therealjrn
@Kyeh Well not any more…since @Ignorant ruined the thread title.
Anyway, lighten up, live a little eh? Get it? Live a little?
HAHAHAHA
@therealjrn no more Chanel 3, how am I supposed to watch my VCR !
@lonocat I know! Riiiight??
@lonocat @therealjrn Nevermind the VCR, what about video games?
@Kyeh
Maybe you can ask the mods
@Ignorant @Thumperchick @Narfcake @RiotDemon
to change the thread title to:
RIP 2021 Q3
Then it will match the previous topic titles.
Or you can restart with a new one with that title.
Totally meant to revisit this in early July … then didn’t.
@chienfou Just blame the scapegoat. Whoever that is.
Well, this got totally lost in all the inanities above…RIP Nanci Griffith.
@Kyeh Had not heard this. Very sad. Once in a Very Blue Moon is one of my favorite songs
@AnnaB I really like that one too. I wasn’t very aware of her until recently - "From a Distance " was the song I knew best.
Markie Post, who was in The Fall Guy and Night Court TV series among others, passed away August 7th of cancer at the age of 70.
Sonny Chiba, martial artist and a star in many movies passed away due to complications of covid.
The creator of Sudoko, Maki Kaji, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 69. He had cancer
Steve Walsh, press secretary for Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, has died after catching COVID-19, according to his wife, state Rep. Sara Walsh, who is looking to primary Vicky Hartlzer for her seat in the US House.
The couple both contracted COVID-19, and Sara Walsh told KCRG in early August that she and her husband had chosen not to receive the vaccine.
On August 2, the day before Sara Walsh first announced her husband was on a ventilator with COVID-19, six Republican legislators called on Governor Mike Parson to convene a special session of the General Assembly in hopes of blocking businesses from mandating vaccines for employees.
Charlie Watts
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58316842
@Kyeh
@Kyeh
Wow. This one hurts.
Met him once, briefly. I recognized him, and I was wearing a Stones t-shirt, so he knew I’d been to the concert the prev night.
We weren’t introduced; he just spoke to me.
We were the only two people having super early breakfast in a fancy hotel. I was already there.
He was, for some reason, given the table next to mine, when I was close to being done. He asked me whether I liked whatever I had ordered (some sort of fancy eggs). He got the same thing.
We chatted for about 5 minutes, but I was done w breakfast and I didn’t want to presume on his time or attention, so I thanked him for the concert and got up to leave.
Just after that another “rock-and-roll” looking person came in the room to sit at his table. They clearly knew each other. So I guess my exit timing was decent.
In our conversation, he said that during the later stops in the tour itinerary, everyone was pretty tired;
they tried to keep it from showing in their performances.
He joked about “playing while unconscious”
(unconscious zombie mental state while performing was due to tour fatigue, not to “entertainment pharmaceuticals”, in his case).
Fucking great jazz and rock drummer.
/youtube Charlie Watts live
@f00l Wow, what an amazing encounter!
He certainly seemed like an exception to the stereotype of the colosally arrogant and obnoxious rock star, even though he was one of the greatest.
More:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/charlie-watts-rolling-stones-drummer-dead-obit-1161926/
@Kyeh
Charlie was the “clean one”. Stable habits, not given to excess and indulgence.
At least, by that time in his life, and later. Or so it’s said.
The three left just keep going on. For a few more years, anyway.
Keith R surely appears to have topped Faust in bargaining savvy.
I suppose that dynamic is part of what makes for “legendary”.
(Plus a few tunes.)
/youtube moonlight mile
/youtube coming down again
@Kyeh
@f00l
How old do you think he was when you met him?
@Kyeh
Steel Wheels tour in '89.
So I guess that would have made him 48 years old
/image rolling Stones steel Wheels tour
@f00l That must have been some concert!!!
@Kyeh
That was a damned fine tour.
But they did a bunch of damned fine tours.
If they go ahead with one this year is well prob be worthy.
Tho I prob won’t go. Aversion to spending time in large crowded venues is a bigger motivator for me now.
@Kyeh
@f00l @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Sweet dreams brother! You will be missed.
Ed Asner, best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant, Elf, and Up, has died at age 91.
He has the record for most primetime Emmys won by a make actor. He is one of two actors to win both Drama and Comedy Emmys playing the same character (in different series).
He was also president of the Screen Actors Guild, where his political views were a sharp change from those of his predecessor, Charlton Heston.
From Vanity Fair
Full NYT obit
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/arts/television/ed-asner-dead.html
@f00l truly a great actor with memorable characters to his credit(s). Always reminded me of my FIL… who was also what my kids called a “burnt marshmallow” at his memorial service (hard and crusty outside but actually soft and sweet on the inside…)
@f00l
The Asner Wars at Chaos Manor
@duodec
Chaos Manor. That’s takes me back.
Glad to see Pournelle hasn’t “lost his touch”.
And that Asner kept his part of the ongoing duel.
Worthy, indeed!
@f00l “Hadn’t” lost his touch. Both he and his wife are gone now. I really miss his columns and his appearances on the Twit TV podcasts.
@duodec
I didn’t realize Pournelle was gone. Or else I knew and then forgot.
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He was enormous part of my life and of my friends’ lives back during the era where we read magazines in order to find out what was going on in the world of personal computing
I guess I lost track of him through laziness after magazines became irrelevant to personal computing
Big loss Everybody always read his column first
Quite the resemblance:
Michael K Williams
He was 54. He notably played the gangster Omar Little on The Wire.
https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-wire-actor-michael-k-williams-1847625735
@mike808
And, apologies to @mediocrebot, he was awesome.
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@f00l
LEGENDS
https://digg.com/video/this-2012-no-reservations-segment-with-michael-k-williams-taking-anthony-bourdain-out-for-caribbean-food-will-give-you-all-the-feels
https://streamable.com/v556ao
Comedian Norm McDonald (SNL, standup, films, etc) has died of cancer at age 61. Apparently he kept the diagnosis secret for a decade.
Norm channeling Dangerfield
Convoluted joke
SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
Weekup update complain
35 min of “Why Norm got fired from Weekend Update” video
I found his humor to be quite Saharan.
@mike808
Kinda liked best how he’d thrown out those lines and then just act bemused.
@f00l I read his book, Based on a True Story, Not a Memoir. It was pretty funny, as expected.
@f00l @sammydog01
Take a walk with Norm.
Pack some snacks.
@mike808 @sammydog01
Last night, SNL Weekend Update paid tribute to Norm:
Clive Sinclair, an inventor who helped popularize personal computers, dies at 81
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81
I remember finally getting the kit and building my zx80.
@f00l One of my neighbors had a ZX80 and used to ask me for help with it (I owned an Apple ][plus so I was supposed to be the neighborhood expert). It was an interesting way to get started back then…
Colin Powell, Who Shaped U.S. National Security, Dies at 84
…
This is only a small portion of the NYT obit, which includes a detailed history of his military and his politically influential career following his military retirement. It’s interesting and we’ll worth the read for many reasons. The article did cover guess Airbnb to the UN in 2003 justifying the then current IRAQ war plans; Powell had been deceived on the evidence at that time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/politics/colin-powell-dead.html
@f00l
Fantastic service today. the Donald was
noticeablywisely abscent.The beautiful Peter Scolari has died at age 66 after a 2-year battle with cancer. You may remember him best from Bosom Buddies, Newhart, Honey I Shrunk the Kids the syndicated series, possibly Girls, or, most recently, Evil. I have loved him for over 40 years and am sad.
Please enjoy the opening credits of Bosom Buddies, in which we very briefly see him riding a unicycle, because that’s not a skill that gets enough attention nowadays.
/image peter scolari bosom buddies
/image peter scolari newhart
/image peter scolari honey i shrunk the kids
/image peter scolari girls
/image peter scolari evil
The official global virus death toll has passed five million. The full count is undoubtedly higher.
(Funeral in Mexico)
Dean Stockwell aged 85
/image quantum leap al
https://deadline.com/2021/11/dean-stockwell-dead-quantum-leap-star-1234870413/
@RiotDemon
Hello of a resume
Blue Velvet
Married To The Mob
Quantum Leap
Dune
To Live And Die In LA
Beverly Hills Cop
Paris Texas
And much more
/image blue velvet Dean Stockwell
@f00l @RiotDemon I have steadfastly refused to watch any more of Blue Velvet than this clip, because in my mind it is a movie about the passionate love affair between these two beautiful middle-aged men. I don’t want to know anything else. But I guess I know that Kyle McLachlan finds an ear?
Stephen Sondheim:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.amp.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/26/metro/stephen-sondheim-towering-figure-american-musical-theater-dies-91/
Masayuki Uemura
Creator Of The NES And SNES, Has Passed Away.
Press ‘A’ on your controller since there is no ‘F’.
From NintendoLife.com.
Col. Edward Shames, the last surviving officer of Easy Company, the “Band of Brothers” popularized by the Stephen Ambrose book and the later HBO mini-series, passed away last Friday, December 3rd in his home at the age of 99. He was preceded in death by his wife of 73 years, Ida.
An interview with Col. Shames was made with the American Veterans Center in 2016.
With Col. Shames passing, only one member of Easy Company remains, PFC Bradford Freeman, now 97 years old.
We are diminished.
Michael Nesmith, Monkees Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 78:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-nesmith-monkees-singer-songwriter-171520208.html
@heartny I watched their show on Saturday mornings when I was a kid. Definitely preferred them to the Beatles.
@heartny
@duodec @heartny
Nesmith was behind Elephant Parts, which arguably invented “music videos” as we know them today, and planted the seeds for what would become MTV.
Elephant Parts won the very first Grammy in the newly created “Best Music Video” category.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Parts
@duodec @heartny @mike808
I read this twice as Elephant Pants before my brain got it right.
@heartny Oh, I’ll be sad forever. The Decades Channel has been running a memorial Monkees marathon this weekend.
/youtube frank zappa mike nesmith monkees
I’m very glad I got to see Mike and Mickey at the Paramount Theater back on March 8, 2019 (Mickey’s birthday). I had a feeling they weren’t going to be going many concerts at this point. Mickey looked very arthritic. Mike just looked old.
Anne Rice, the Gothic novelist best known for her best-selling book “Interview With the Vampire,” died on Saturday. She was 80…Her son, Christopher Rice, wrote on social media that Ms. Rice died of “complications resulting from a stroke.”
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Born in New Orleans on Oct. 4, 1941, Ms. Rice was most widely known for the novel series “The Vampire Chronicles,” the first of which was “Interview With the Vampire,” published in 1976…
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/books/anne-rice-dead.amp.html#aoh=16393231921706&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %251%24s
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (of “Interview With A Vampire” fame) passed away Saturday, December 11, after a massive stroke.
Washington Post article
@mike808
That’s what she (OldCatLady) said…
E. O. Wilson at 92
“The naturalist was recognized for his work on social behavior and pheromones in ants and as a champion of wildlife conservation.” “Wilson is also credited with developing the field of sociobiology, which addresses the biological underpinnings of animal behavior” He included humans in his discussions of that.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/renowned-ant-researcher-eo-wilson-dies-at-92-69557
Richard Marcinko, who founded the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 after earning accolades as a SEAL leader during two tours in Vietnam, died Christmas Day at age 81, the National Navy SEAL Museum has announced.
“With the Navy needing an elite unit dedicated to counterterrorism after the Pentagon’s failure to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Hayward hand-picked Marcinko to stand up the new SEAL team”
“Marcinko, the son of Pennsylvania coal miner, enlisted in the Navy in 1958 after dropping out of high school, according to his 1992 best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.” He completed underwater demolition training as an enlisted sailor before commission via Officer Candidate School in 1965. He deployed less than two years later to Vietnam with SEAL Team 2.”
“He picked the best SEALs and underwater demolition specialists to build what would become the Navy’s most elite and famous unit. He told SOFREP he even used the opportunity to mess with the Soviet Union — naming the unit Team Six even though only two SEAL teams existed at the time.”
“We didn’t have a [SEAL Team] three, four or five,” he said. “I picked six as a lucky number — let the Soviets figure out where the rest of them are.”"
“After leaving the Navy, Marcinko went to work in business, did motivational speaking and authored some 20 books, including multiple best-sellers. After writing about his Navy career in his autobiography, Marcinko wrote a series of novels, in which he was the protagonist.”
Sarah Weddington, Who Successfully Argued Roe v. Wade, Dies at 76
“She went before the U.S. Supreme Court at 26 with almost no legal experience and won one of the most consequential cases in American history.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/us/politics/sarah-weddington-dead.html
John Madden, NFL Coach and broadcaster, dies at 85.
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-community-mourns-passing-of-legendary-hall-of-fame-coach-broadcaster-john-ma
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/john-madden-the-star-of-eas-madden-nfl-series-has-died-at-85/amp/
He’s in the game. RIP, Coach.
There have been 32 entries in EA’s Madden Football video game series.
@mike808 He was a real character, and fun to listen to.
Betty White!
@Kyeh
A friend texted me:
@f00l I guess Keith won.
@Kyeh
She was handicapped in this match because she was carrying a couple of extra decades
I suspect Keith would be the first to admit that if he were asked.
Damn
Abe Vigoda sends his regards.
/image Abe Vigoda
@f00l @Kyeh
My money is on The Queen Mother kicking Kieth’s ass.
Tonight (1/1/2022) SNL is rebroadcasting Betty White hosting.
/youtube SNL betty white Dusty muffins
@mike808
I’m told that the Peacock streaming.service from NBC shows this current season’s SNL episodes for free (without a viewer having to agree to a paid level of Peacock service);
with the entire episode becoming available to non-paying viewers about a week after airdate.
Before that, I’m told, Peacock just shows selected clips from a given episode, starting a bit after midnight, shortly after that episode is completed airing.
Have not tried this myself, but info came from “competent-with-details” person.
If someone wants to buy just that episode, it’s season 35, episode 21; original airdate May 08, 2010 (mother’s day episode).
$1.99 at Amazon Prime video, for instance.
@f00l Not surprising. I guess they want to drive you to peacocktv.com instead of nbc.com.
These days, all the websites for the broadcast networks put all of their shows up the next day until the next episode airs. CBS, NBC, ABC, CW. Other shows on the syndication channels (Comet, Antenna, etc.) have livestreams and some back catalog on their websites too. Lots of shows on PBS have their own websites or youtube channels with post-aired episodes or the current season.
@mike808
The peacock tv “watch free after a week” might only be for new content. Might include legacy stuff.
So sez my source this am.
Her 100th birthday was only a few days away, too. RIP.
@mike808 Yep. If she had made it she might have lived forever. So few people die after their 100th birthday.
Side note, my great grandmother lived to be 103. When she was about 97 my mom told her that she wanted to dance at her (my great grandmother’s) 100th birthday party. Great Gram replied, “Well, you better take care of yourself then.”. She was smart and feisty pretty much up until the end. She probably could have lived longer but we think she got bored. A few days before she died, she told my grandmother, “Well, I guess I’ll be going soon.”. She wasn’t fatalistic or sick or anything. But she was mostly deaf and going blind and moved into a nursing home when she was 101. So we think she was just ready to see what was next.