@sohmageek I will forever remember him with this

@sohmageek I guess there is a thread for him already... https://meh.com/forum/topics/the-starman-ascends

@sohmageek So much to miss, hmm?

@sohmageek I'm still not ok with this. I've been listening to his music just about every day since he passed (which is only slightly more often than I did before haha). Such an amazing artist...

@sohmageek
I quote this movie daily! Love it!

@connorbush I was wondering why One Day at a Time was showing up all of sudden. I has a sad :(

@sammydog01 For some reason, this one is the one that's really making me sad. :-(

@sammydog01 @purplepawprints me too. So sad. :(

@sammydog01 Alan Rickman was in the top 3 of actors I'd like to meet. So sad.

@sammydog01

I just realized now that i lost a birthday buddy :(

@sammydog01 loved him in die hard.

@sammydog01 I loved him in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. He was a sexy, sexy bad guy. He was still hot as Severus Snape.

@sammydog01 This was the first thing I heard this morning and I am unbelievably saddened. He was a wonderful actor and had so many great roles.

@sammydog01 Almost did not go into work today. I feel like I lost a friend...

By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged.

@sammydog01 Just read about this a few minutes ago. I am beyond saddened. Fuck this week as far as the losses go. I will leave this, something that just cracks me up. Only Rickman could pull off this level of rage and domesticity.

R.i.p. indeed. Thank you, professor.

@sammydog01 Great versatility.
He could be the bad guy -- Quigley Down Under
The Good guy -- Sense and Sensibility
The Romantic Lead -- Truly, Madly, Deeply
Cheating Husband - Love, Actually
A President - The Butler
Professor/ wizard - Harry Potter
And so much more.

Truly, Madly, Deeply is a fav and when I first was introduced to his work. Great flick if you haven't seen it. Rumor is that "Ghost" was inspired by it.

Peace.

@ceagee by Grabthar's Hammer!!

@FroodyFrog
*throat cancer

@sammydog01 Oh no! Now I'm sad, too.

@sammydog01 came here to post this.

@sammydog01 This one bums me out as well.

@cinoclav

Saw this a little while ago.
sigh
I may not listen to music really, but even i can see how music has taken a hit this year thus far. (And not just because the New York Times said so)

@cinoclav Damn. Leaving this here, because, damn I'm getting sad.

And no offense to froodyfrog, but music is life. I can't imagine not having it.

@jaremelz

No offense taken, because I agree with your statement.

Told my mother. Her initial response was "wow", then when I told her about
http://isabevigodadead.com she wanted to confirm with me that he's really dead.

*Sigh...

We're still in January, and yet this thread has quite a few well known names.

@FroodyFrog I'm still checking the site to see if there are any changes...

@hollboll
There were several names which i could have added, but i decided that this thread was depressing enough.

@hollboll I just hope no one here gets added to the list... It's kind of depressing. :( but. It's also like a memorial/celebration of their life!

@hollboll That's how I feel every time I see a celebrity trending on Facebook now. "Oh, no! They died too!"

@hollboll I just found out that one of my all-time favorite writers died on January 6th. RIP, Florence King. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary

@OldCatLady Sadly, I’ve never heard of her. I’m in need of a new read, so I’m going to pick up one of her books. Thanks for the nudge.

@pitamuffin If you get ‘Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady’ or ‘Southern Ladies and Gentlemen’, I’ll be interested to hear your opinion.

@OldCatLady Oh no! I'm already done with this year, thanks.

@DaveInSoCal :( Sorry for your loss. Thoughts/prayers for comfort and peace for you and your family as you grieve.

@capguncowboy could not believe this. still don't want to.

@sohmageek This is really sad.

@dashcloud yeah, original art for Lightning bolt, Black lotus, Brainstorm, brassman...

@sohmageek I missed this one… sad for sure, his art was indeed iconic.

@sohmageek his Kamigawa stuff is really good too

@Lotsofgoats @Brhfl @dashcloud I didn't realize we had so many magic players here :) I realize you have moved on, or don't monitor, but @JonT you may want to see this.. :(

@mikibell - Sorry not sorry.

@mikibell Holy crap! This should put an interesting spin on the current political game show.

@Teripie - So it could tip the balance back, but congress just might resist any Obama nomination.
[satire font]

@mikibell That link is forbidden, I can't fix it for you. :(

@hollboll thank you! I will try a different photo.

Probably best known as Commandant Lassard in Police Academy and from Punky Brewster.

Well then, we all had the same idea at once.

@cinoclav Punky now:

@DaveInSoCal Trust me, I'm well aware of how she blossomed. :)

@Teripie

Wow. That's sad.

@Teripie Her books and the movie had a huge effect on this country. I hope the rumor of a third book is true. RIP, Harper Lee.

@Teripie :(

I wouldn't say it's sad that she passed, she lived a long life. What's sad is the story of her life itself.

@Teripie If anyone cares, she admired Opus in Bloom County, and there's a tribute to her there today:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35620368

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/italian-author-umberto-eco-dies-aged-84

The year just doesn't quit sucking.

@Teripie The book lured me down the path of historical mysteries. He was a tremendous influence on the genre.

@OldCatLady I have a tiny one shot in PURPLE.

@Pavlov

I teared up when i read this earlier.

@Pavlov Lest we forget.

@Barney It's like the end of the year people post who died... it's a way to memoralize it... I just hope I don't end up in this thread....

@sohmageek I understand what you are saying. I just don't like this thread.

@narfcake :*(

Sorry man. Truly

@narfcake So sad to read about your friend. She's a celebrity to you,and therefore us. Her post belongs here. I just wish there didn't have to be a post.

Peace Bella.
Remember to take care of you, narfcake. Losing a friend like that is very hard.

Oh, @narfcake I'm so sorry.

Very sorry to hear it, @narfcake.

@ceagee @capguncowboy @kdemo @brhfl: Thank you for your kind words. I'll get through, knowing that if I hadn't taken her in, Bella may have been gone 6 years ago already as large breeds aren't as likely to find homes -- and she was able to live that additional half of her life.

11 years is longer than average for English Mastiffs.

@narfcake My heart hurts for you.

@narfcake My dog, Murphy, is asking why I have tears. Our condolences to you.

@narfcake So sorry to hear that.

@barney @sligett @dashcloud: Thank you.

@narfcake So sorry to read this @narfcake. Losing a pet can be as painful as losing a family member; because they are family members.
Will be thinking of you today.

Sharing a little old times with stuff I've posted before ...

@Teripie: Thank you. Being single, indeed she was family.

I know I'm not ready to adopt yet, but I will again.

@narfcake hmm so from these pictures, can we take it that dog slobber is as wonderful as baby drool??

@narfcake Oh man, so sorry.

@narfcake I'm sorry for your loss. We lost a kitty last month, he had heart problems. He was one of a feral litter we brought in back in early 2000. There were six siblings, now there are only three.

We got his ashes back last week. I know how hard it is, I still miss our dogs and cats we've said goodbye to over the last thirty years. Each one did something special and every once in a while, the memories come flooding back.

((((( @narfcake )))))

@narfcake
That hurts so much. So sorry this happened. But at least you got to love each other all those years.

@lisaviolet: hugs. I'm sorry for your loss too. :( Indeed, they are a part of us.

Walking downstair this morning and only seeing the pile of shirts she usually sleeps on ... that was tough.

@f00l: In speaking to one pet cremation service last night, that's what the owner was saying too -- to focus on the fulfilling years that we were able to spend together.

@mikibell: It's more so that they're all Ramy shirts that she licked, drooled, and/or slobbered on - almost without fail. If I had my tablet out beside her, I was careful not to pull up TeeTurtle or LookCuter next to her, as that could have been like opening up a porn site.

@narfcake too cute {hugs}

@narfcake I'm so very sorry, from the bottom to top of my heart. It's like losing a part of yourself. Much love, narf...

@narfcake Condolences. We have also loved and lost many furry friends and pack-mates. When we lost Swiper last May, it took months before we had the heart to put up his bed, and his bowls.

But his (and his long ago packmates') pictures and quick videos litter our computer and TV screen savers, and his image with a huge grin is my desktop background, and its hard to be sad when we see, and remember him so happy, remember him snarfing for french fries, being happy to meet everyone, jonesing for car rides... and being told for months afterwards by neighbors, family, and friends what a wonderful dog he was... We were so lucky, and blessed, to find him that day in the shelter.

And apparently, so were you. Congratulations on sharing your life with a wonderful friend, and for rescuing that friend and giving her a better life.

@narfcake So sorry.

@narfcake I am so sorry for your loss. Pets are part of your family. He had a loving home.

@duodec Thank you. This morning I picked up most of her shirt pile, as that had gotten to be too much a reminder that she's gone. The tougher part was calling the crematory to finalize the process ... that made me tear up again.

@pitamuffin @jaremelz @pooflady @mellaine: Thank you.

@narfcake Really sorry for your furry loss. Coming up on two years for me and it still hurts. At least your girl had the most cuddly of tee-beds!

@cinoclav Thank you. Her shirt piles are just shirts from sub-$3 rag bags (unsold thrift store shirts). She had a habit of dragging shirts outside to lay down on or bury, so her sleep pile was regularly replenished.

@narfcake really sorry to hear about this. i'm glad she got to live a warm and loving life with you and that she had her full share of cat shirts.

@narfcake I am so sorry you lost your furry family member.

Her ashes just came back 5 minutes ago -- almost exactly a week from when she had her last breath. And my eyes are still wet ...

@carl669 @Thumperchick: Thank you.

@duodec This should knock Trump off the headlines for a couple days.

@Teripie - Nothing has worked so far.

@Sabre99 Such an underrated musician.

@Sabre99 One of my favorites

Keith's closing synthesizer solo is pure unadulterated musical genius.

@Pavlov That basically covers everything they did. Especially the anthem of the 70's.
**He went to fight wars
For his country and his king
Of his honor and his glory
The people would sing

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was**

@FroodyFrog Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is a big fan of the Great American Songbook and Frank Sinatra, and had personally become friends with Frank Sinatra, Jr. Sinatra, Jr. even let MacFarlane use one of his father's microphones on MacFarlane's debut album Music Is Better Than Words (which is actually excellent).

@KDemo

@KDemo

Images from just after the explosions:

https://mobile.twitter.com/lalibrebe/status/712254987745808384

I'd have embedded the images directly, but my eyes start getting laid in them whenever I look at them and start reflecting on them.

@KDemo

@KDemo

@OldCatLady

It's nice to see the World united for a cause. (Shame though that it can't be united all the time)

@FroodyFrog I only heard of him recently -- wasn't he the one in that scandal where he admitted to doing all kinds of illegal things? Seemed almost a Chris Farley type -- excess in everything, so not surprised he pass so young.

@ACraigL

Yeah. And there's this: Wikipedia entry on his health issues

@FroodyFrog Thanks. Had no idea.

@ACraigL

No problem. And if it helps you,I'm of the belief that a day is mediocrely spent if you learn something new everyday, so, you're probably good.

@zachdecker

Ugh.

@FroodyFrog A legend in the game. RIP Joe

@cinoclav Loved him in 1776.

I loved the Larry Sanders Show.

@stardate820926 I just cannot process this one.

@Teripie I hate it when somebody five months older than I dies. I especially hate it when they weren't known to be ill. He should have been around for another twenty years.

@OldCatLady
Hate it when anyone who is within 20 years of my age dies. That makes my denial that much more difficult.

Lately.....unhappy w the losses and the stats.

@Teripie

Bump

(made you look)

@Teripie

Just found out about this.

@OldCatLady
:(

@cinoclav That really sucks!

@no1
I read that one of his early efforts was teaching a machine to play pong-pong. Only the ping-pong machine would take swings at the heads of bald people and people with shaved heads. Which, in a way, was even better.
What an awesome guy.

@FroodyFrog @chadp

@FroodyFrog It's weird when celebs die and they are exactly my age. Wasn't a fan, but sad to see anyone go so young.

@ACraigL In the words of Tom Lehrer, "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years".

@lisaviolet

Wikipedia is in turmoil. Prince's page kept on going back and forth about his death. Finally they locked it from any edits until a reliable source confirms it. (For Wikipedia, TMZ does not count as a reliable source.)

@FroodyFrog how about the AP?

Twitter embed not working for me
Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/AP/status/723196712639193088

@lisaviolet This is terrible news. Cause of death has not yet been announced, but I saw reports that he had a severe case of flu last week.

@OldCatLady

Yeah. His plane had to make emergency landing.

@Ignorant

It's working fine by me. (At first your link didn't go, so i posted the url, then i saw the embeddment, so i deleted my post

@FroodyFrog Focus ad blocker for iOS was hiding the embeds from Twitter on my side. I see it now.

@Ignorant

Keep in mind that we're still in April and there's still a lot more of 2016 left.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyear.html

@ChadP

All the deaths in this thread are stunning, and not in a good way. Sigh...

so sad.

@ChadP - This is when the doves cry.

@Teripie
No kidding. Prince was beyond awesome as a mysician.

Also it's so disturbing that so many boomers, not much older than me, or even younger (Prince) have died. I thought we were supposed to live forever.

@f00l Yeah. These guys are youngsters compared to me. Saw a clip of The Who's concert at Hyde Park. They panned the crowd and it was all senior citizens!

@Teripie I was going to see The Who in Philly, but it was past their bedtime.

This.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/see-prince-rip-play-two-mind-blowing-solos-on-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps-and-american-woman.html

@cinoclav So sad. I feel bad for him and their little girl.

@heartny Percy died on April 14, 2015. Apparently, Twitter didn't think once was enough . . .

http://www.gigwise.com/news/106595/twitter-2016-kills-off-percy-sledge-after-his-death-over-a-year-ago

@Pavlov Interesting. So much for fact-checking. Maybe they were just testing to see who was paying attention?

@dashcloud - Thanks. I kind of figured it had to do with rockers and other celebrities aging.
Even with more accessible online and cable news, there are many deaths that wouldn't have come to my attention without this thread.

@jmendenhall Is it because a double-decker bus
crashed into them?

@jmendenhall total spit take

@FroodyFrog
I'm sure those were individuals with interesting careers and something to say, tho i dont know them

So what about all these living politicians and pundits whose careers are dead? Should they be listed here?

@OldCatLady i was only familiar with his soft pieces on 60 minutes, i never realised he did so much influential reporting.

@FroodyFrog A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

@Shrdlu

@Shrdlu Oh, I don’t know. Maybe Lazarus will be back.

Sigh… Parkinson’s sucks. I’ve been watching the decline of my stepfather who was diagnosed about 10 years ago. It was a gradual curve up until the last year or two when it really grabbed hold. Now he slowly shuffles around, spends a lot of time in a tilt wheelchair to keep his head level (drooping head syndrome), and looks like a two year old after a meal. His mental aptitude comes and goes. As sharp as ever one moment to dementia and argumentative the next. He was one of the strongest men I’ve ever known, both physically and mentally, and this horrible disease has taken his freedom and pride. My mother is my hero. At 73 (and looking like she’s 50) she’s still running her business during the day then comes home to take care of the love of her life every minute she’s there.

R.I.P to “The Greatest”

Your family sounds amazing, @cinoclav, my thoughts are with you.

@cinoclav I am so sorry to hear this. And your mother is an amazing woman to do all of this, especially dealing with a Parkinson’s patient. It is not easy. My father was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s/Alzheimer’s. When I look back I can see the early signs that we just missed. As much as I miss him I am glad that it only lasted a few years till he passed. It is very difficult watching a family you love deal with something like that. It is a horrible disease. Wishing your family the very best during this difficult time.

@KDemo Thank you - I appreciate it very much.

@mfladd Thank you. I too am very sorry you and your family had experience with this nasty disease. I’m especially sorry for the loss of your father. Though I’m glad it didn’t linger as long as it could have. I lost my own father last year after an ongoing struggle with dementia, asthma and aspiration pneumonia. The combination eventually took their toll and he fell and broke several cervical vertebrae. It would have required a brace and a feeding tube for several months to get him through it but his living will left us with no choice but to let things take their course. Hospice and lots of morphine and three days later he was gone. I know we did what he wanted but it’s still a decision that will be questioned forever. I can only hope that my own death will be both natural and quick. Dealing with these things makes us quite cognizant of how much of a burden we can be to our families regardless of knowing they will accept whatever life (and death) throws at them.

@cinoclav No, as hard as it was your family the right choice. I can’t speak for everyone, but if I were in the same spot - what quality of life would there be - I would want the same. We eventually had to put dad in a nursing home because my mother was unable to deal with his falls in the house. You are well aware of how it works where they are unable to initiate movements (of getting up, or walking). Once they get moving they do ok. That is why your mother is so amazing to be able to have coped with this at home for so many years. Kudos to that woman. I am sorry for you loss and appreciate your sentiment to mine - cycle of life. More so apparent as we are ourselves get older.

The one thing I remember that brought my dad joy in the nursing home is when I would bring him McDonalds Kid Meals and we would have lunch together. The nurses would line up the toys on the windowsill. He loved those. We would also bring him home for Holidays. What literally broke my heart one day (early on - you understand how they go in and out mentally) is when he asked why he couldn’t sleep over.

Always remember your family did the right thing, especially for the proud man that he was.

@mfladd

@jbartus

Boxer/MMAer/Actor

@FroodyFrog I have Google, I just wanted to be clear that this person has no personal significance to me since I didn’t know who they are. Thanks though!

@jbartus

Oddly enough, I know him better as an actor than as a boxer/MMAer

@jbartus the video of him caving in that guys eye socket in a backyard was one of the first crazy videos I remember seeing on the Internet.

@DMlivezey I’m sorry for your loss.

@jbartus Sincere condolences to you and your family during this difficult time.

@DMlivezey Sorry to hear. 93 though. Can’t ask for much more than that. Hoping she was happy/comfortable for most of that time.

@DMlivezey Very sorry. She was obviously special to you if you cared to share it here. Thoughts are with you and your family.

@DMlivezey so sorry for your loss.

@DMlivezey Sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with your family.

@DMlivezey
I hope you had a great and long relationship with your aunt for many years. V sorry she’s gone.

So sorry, @DMlivezey.

@DMlivezey Thanks for all the well wishes, we had a great time celebrating her life today with more than half of my 24 cousins from that side in attendance

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@mfladd yea, i’m in the motor city, lots of deserved press for Mr. Hockey

@Teripie Our world is seriously messed up.

@Teripie LGBT nightclub shooting! Blood drive requested. FDA still ban gay men from donating blood “12 months since the last sexual contact with another man”!

Thankfully the blood drive has been successful and the banks are full.

Unfortunately the rumors that the ban was lifted seems to be false.

@Teripie I went to Pineloch Elementary, about a mile and a half from there. Can’t tear myself away from TV. I’m coping by cooking, panzanella and zabaglione so far. Friends are checking in on FB’s emergency reporting system, which is a very great relief. https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/orlando-shooting-jun12-2016/

@Teripie - Such violence is just mind numbing, and it’s only getting worse. Something has to change.

@Teripie, et al… For those of us who have been assaulted for simply not hiding who we are, this shit is… the culmination of every personal attack, every attack on everyone we’ve known, every vigil that makes our community rounds… it’s a very real possibility that haunts our thoughts every time the right tries to sweep us under the carpet, duct tape our mouths so we’ll just stop complaining already. It’s a nightmare so many of us have had, and now it’s… well, it’s a fucking hard, evil, shattering truth. I largely had to disconnect today. I guess I decided to stop by here because this place usually cheers me up, and I’m just… I’m not surprised, but I’m glad to see the sober acknowledgement here. @fjp999, while I’m not surprised there was no wading through the bureaucratic hell to temporarily overturn the MSM (that term kind of sucks… PSP? blech.) blood ban, it is a really, really special sort of irony.

@Teripie I have no words. Only sadness and a deep rage.

My heart aches for this.

And from The Onion:

Nation Wishes It Could Just Once Be Reminded Of Preciousness Of Life Without Mass Shooting

@KDemo
Another Onion headline, I think after Sandy Hook…I don’t remember the wording and I’ll mess it up…
Something about “No solution to mass shootings conceivable in only nation that has this problem frequently.”

@carl669 I remember as a child seeing Michu in person when he was with Ringling Brothers. Until he passed away I had no idea he played Alf.

@RiotDemon

@RiotDemon I can’t even begin to describe how sad his passing makes me.

@jbartus Yeah. I was reading some of the tweets his costars and other celebs put out, pretty touching. Such a young talent.

@RiotDemon I can’t even really put into words the loss I feel right now, it’s almost on the same level as the loss I felt last year when we lost Robin Williams…

All I can think about right now is the way Anton died, pinned against a gate by his Jeep, having been crushed by it. I cannot even begin to imagine that his death was either quick or even remotely pain free. That a young man only a year older than myself has been taken so suddenly and in such an spectacular yet mundane manner is devastating on a level I can’t even begin to articulate.

Cherish your loved ones everybody, examples like this serve to demonstrate just how quickly a life can be snuffed out, how those you love and cherish can be taken from you in an instant. Too often we let the trials of our materially-focused world get in the way of our relationships with those around us. In all earnest, I encourage everybody reading this to take five minutes, walk away from your computer and hug someone you care about.

@jbartus Thank you for such a well put comment. This one has left me feeling crushed. The lovely comments from those who knew him simply break my heart. This wasn’t a punk, wasn’t some entitled little egomaniac. He was by all accounts a hard-working, earnest, and amazing young man with the world opening up to him.

@FroodyFrog honestly for me being UN anything isn’t really a mark in his favor but I do feel bad for his family in the same way I would for anyone who’s died.

@emilyap Didn’t realize she was from Philly. Thanks for posting this.

@cinoclav The '85 Bears defense – all him. He was one hell of a coach.

@cinoclav The 46 defense was “pretty unblockable.” So says even Bill Belichick about the 1985 Bears team.
He was a master at defense and as a football fan - he will be missed.

I own multiple Toffler books; smart guy. I’m sad that he’s gone. One generation away from me. Now I feel old.

@Shrdlu He helped shape my view of the world when I read his books in the 1970s. I haven’t read all of them, but now I think I’ll add them to my TBR stack. My public library, of course, does not have any of his works in e-format.

@ACraigL
When young i read Future Shock. Now i seem to live it.

I heard an audio interview with him this weekend, recorded, i think, a few years ago or so? He had never opened the box containing the ipad family members had given him. He laughed about it.

@Shrdlu ‘Let the robots do the dying’ is perhaps my favorite quote.
/giphy robots dying

@KDemo
That generation contained some true giants.

@f00l - I knew of him but have never read his books or heard him speak. Listening to the radio - the more I hear, the sadder I become. This man spent his life selflessly working for humanitarian causes.

@Shrdlu Great movies. R.I.P.

@heartny So sad, but so good that his creative genius will live on.

@sanspoint Well, she should have seen THAT coming.

@Shrdlu
I adore her and her voice.

A few decades ago, Garrison Keillor did an outdoor Prairie Home Companion show live in LA. She was the “guest of guests”, and that show was basically set up for her to get out live in the open air and sing her heart out. I wish i had a recording of it.

I have heard that Natalie Wood did not did not know her singing was dubbed in West Side Story. Dunno if true.

In My Fair Lady, the Just You Wait song goes back and forth between Audrey Hepburn doing the more spoken lines and Marni Nixon doing the more traditional singing lines, i think. If that’s true, the voices blended well. I believe the rest of the Eliza Doolittle singing vocals in the film belong to Marni Nixon.

Thx for mentioning this…her voice is a source of joy. Ditto for her as a person.

@Shrdlu
For those who don’t know her voice, all the singing below is Marni Nixon.

@no1 I loved Babylon 5! R.I.P. Jerry.

@emilyap Whoa, saw the name and thought it was the musician.

@mistamoose so is meh 1.0

https://meh.com/forum/topics/or-you-can-please-none-of-the-people-at-all-of-the-times----2-of-2#57979ceffac3c50c09dee563

@heartny He did a great Santa Claus, though the reindeer kept stealing the scenes.

So heartbreaking, watching Hannah Storm report his passing this morning.

@sanspoint

Sometimes during ep 4 shoots they forgot to let him out for lunch.

A tiny legend.

@sanspoint Mark Hamill tweeted: “Goodbye #KennyBaker A lifelong loyal friend-I loved his optimism & determination He WAS the droid I was looking for!”

May he rest in peace.

@Shrdlu
I still vividly remember some scenes from The Man In The Glass Booth, however many decades later.

@OldCatLady sure, he may not have been as famous as some, but he changed the world for the better – in a big way. I’ll upvote that. It’s too bad there are so many that are undoing our progress against preventable illnesses by choosing not to vaccinate their children.

@sanspoint Just watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory last week. It is amazing how good that movie is, and how great of an actor he was (which was made plenty more apparent since we watched the remake a couple nights before). Very sad to hear this.

@sanspoint

Gene, miss ya.

When asked in a 2013 Time Out New York magazine interview whether he would act again if a suitable film project came his way, Wilder responded, “I’m tired of watching the bombing, shooting, killing, swearing and 3-D. I get 52 movies a year sent to me, and maybe there are three good [ones]. That’s why I went into writing. It’s not that I wouldn’t act again. I’d say, ‘Give me the script. If it’s something wonderful, I’ll do it.’ But I don’t get anything like that.”

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“I don’t like show business, I like show, but I don’t like the business.” - Gene Wilder

Very sad. I’m not much for after-life things, but I hope somehow he’s finally reunited with Gilda Radner. Her passing was devastating at the time.

Sad
Is 2016 over yet? No one is going to die next year right?

I’m heartbroken. WW&tCF has always been my favorite movie. Such a wonderful actor and human. Thanks for all the smiles Mr. Wilder.

@Moose

@sanspoint Sadness. He will be missed

@sanspoint
For Gene and Gilda, I guess Too Much Ain’t Enough:

@OldCatLady Long may his story be told.

@Barney My boy cousins used to tease me by singing ‘quiet burp, quiet burp’. I’d take roundhouse swings at them, furious. Didn’t work, they’d hold me at arm’s length because they were older, and their arms were longer.

@Shrdlu
I think she first hit national awareness with fanatical support of Goldwater. I believe her latest book (from a long list) went on sale today.
Her ideals have never been mine: but i do credit her with incredible energy and a certain sort of effectiveness.

/image The Lady Chablis

@Shrdlu Trans icon, trans idol, trans inspiration. RIP.

@hems79 Slight understatement there. Ska, and especially Prince Buster, were a foundation upon which rock music as we know it was built. Some examples are linked here. Warning: earworms ahead. https://crazyonclassicrock.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/ska-and-the-caribbean-influence-in-classic-rock/

While I’m thinking about it, the NYT obituary, although a bit long, is VERY worth reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/edward-albee-playwright-of-a-desperate-generation-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

@Shrdlu Thanks for that link. Albee “explored […] the gap between self-delusion and truth” . . . I wasn’t aware there was a difference.

@Pavlov One of those names you might not know but has immediate facial recognition.

@cinoclav

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history. He won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. Nicknamed “The King”, he was one of golf’s most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport’s television age, which began in the 1950s.

Palmer’s social impact on behalf of golf was perhaps unrivaled among fellow professionals; his humble background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf as an elite, upper-class pastime to a more democratic sport accessible to middle and working classes. Palmer is part of “The Big Three” in golf during the 1960s, along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.

Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

(for you kids, that may not know)

@f00l This has been a very sad day.

@Pavlov
Would you rather not see mentioned here the ones you didn’t already know of?

Would you rather not take a moment?

Varying reactions, I suppose.

I’m ok with the thread, I guess. Tho I wouldn’t start this sort of thread if I thought most people would rather not have it.

@f00l The thread is just a fucking drag, man. If you want to know who died, CNN and many other news outlets have a running obit file - not only is this obviously redundant / derivative (it isn’t like Meh’s forum is for breaking news of a death notice), but I kind of feel weird every time I add to it, and I’m going to stop.

I totally get discussing Bowie and several others on this list because of the deep and meaningful impact they had on our collective lives . . . but several of the deaths listed here (including Bowie) had their own threads in the forum also which were dedicated to discussing the person in life, and I wonder if that wouldn’t be a better way to go.

I would bet the Gene Wilder thread (had it existed) would have been much more than what was nailed down in this one, for instance. And the audience would have been much wider / deeper than those that glance at this tally we keep just for the sake of keeping a redundant tally . . . and possibly in this “list” form it squelches participation in discussion too.

Where’s the thread keeping tally of all the births meaningful to Mehmbers? It doesn’t exist - when a mehmeber wants to brag or share joy, or discuss a celebrity birth or adoption (or licking a doughnut even, as a for instance) they make a new thread . . .

Then again maybe I’m just burned the fuck out by all the death notices this year . . . or maybe I’m just shifting my view of them in general, overall (with age). Or maybe it is just that time of the month and I’m getting my fucking man period (Irritable Male Syndrome). Who knows?

Maybe @cranky1950 finally wore off on me . . .

@Pavlov

The way I look at it, this thread is more of a remembrance wall for those who have left us this year. While yes, it is sad, we would rather recall in brief about people.
Time heals all wounds, and as humans, we have to move on.

When somebody has good news, and they make a new thread, it gives us a place to rejoice in the news, and the thread is dedicated solely to focusing on the news.

This thread allows us to spend some time on a person, but move on, since we can’t afford to wallow in grief, especially if it does not directly impact us.

I think you see where I’m headed with this.

@TickledLizard So following your line of thinking / logic, @ studerc should have posted here in this thread when his sister committed suicide, and not in a new thread.

Note I removed the @ tag intentionally with a space so as to not call him into this shit show.

I’m not going to scan the entire thread, but I believe the sentiment of not having this thread / not making another has been said before . . .

I’m setting a custom string in my ad blocking software to block this thread. Ya’ll enjoy.

I’m gonna go have a few drinks, which typically reduces my willingness to give a shit to a much more nominal (as in token) level.

@Pavlov

Of course not (for reasons which I won’t get into).

Something tells me though that we should stop right here though.

I totally understand your viewpoint though.

@Pavlov
Ok you’re gone and you prob won’t see this.

RIP thread:

It’s not like there’s some universal constant or rule of how to handle it. People should follow their instincts I suppose.

Births? And community family news? yes, if those with the news are willing.

Public or famous births? Here? Why? For people mag. Happy babies, I hope. But they have not made themselves individuals with weight. Ok for them to be babies.

Personal losses like studerc’s - he can post it wherever he might want. Same for anyone else. I hope they do. If we share, then perhaps we make something more of ourselves than entertaining silliness.

Public figures lost? If they matter, then reading it here is not the same as an app. To me. Here: Shared w people who actually interact. A community. Vs NYT or similar: impersonal news.

Their own threads? Or not? Have zero ideas re rules. Don’t really want rules.

Yeah, all those losses are not exactly fun. “Old age ain’t for sissies”. Not there yet, but got to talk over that quip with someone who was. His way: look straight at it.

So I don’t mind this thread, if others don’t. My emotional projection re some value of sharing? Ok. Sure.

Even if I’m just using my illusions.

@f00l You are correct, I wriggled things with extensions and scripting so that this thread is no longer displayed in my browser in the main forum list (it isn’t working perfectly all the time, but I’ll get it there). But if you tag me, as you did, of course I’ll get an email copy of the post.

Look, it ain’t personal (not directed at any particular poster in this or any other thread) - and I don’t know if I can adequately express whatever it is that has crawled up my ass about the whole thing . . . And yes, I’ve posted in this very thread several times - recently, in fact - as I mentioned previously, so I’m acutely aware and acknowledge that my current dissatisfaction (for lack of a better descriptor) with this constant derivative delineation of death is hypocritical . . .

I don’t know . . . the only rule here is “Don’t be a dick”, and I don’t want to be - so ya’ll post away, I don’t have to read it if it is for some reason (which I can’t presently quantify with words) itching my asshole.

It’s all good.

@Pavlov

at my current dissatisfaction (for lack of a better descriptor) with this constant derivative delineation of death is hypocritical . . .

Nope. Or not to me

Social customs and community shared newsflow customs:
Some social customs prob need to wither and die
Some people need a break
Some people dont fit with whatever custom and need to kick away from it if it gets near.

All good.

derivative delineation of death

Alliterative rolling cadences. Rather lovely and v evocative.

Carries more than its surface. Makes methink I might examine my habits.

Thought the phrase was yours, but curious. Googled it

MIT math syllabi. Calculus and more.
Pub-Med stuff.
And, from a Law and Arts site:
“Sherlock Holmes and Newt Scamander: Incorporating Protected Nonlinear Character Delineation Into Derivative Works”

So, bravo for that phrase. My vocab arsenal wants for ammo, might have to integrate it

Sorry! <ducks, and covers>

/image “autumn leaves”

@Pavlov Had I known how depressing this would be… I likely wouldn’t have started it… However it was good for a few that the media will never cover, even though they should.

@sohmageek And that’s why we read it. You’re not responsible for the content. I don’t troll the news media looking for death notices, so this is where I see many for the first time. The FB page for The College of Rock and Roll Knowledge is one major source, too. https://www.facebook.com/TheCollegeOfRockAndRollKnowledge/?fref=ts

@sohmageek I have no doubt that future successive iterations of this thread will outlive even me. So yeah, you should really be goated again for this. Twice.

@OldCatLady I would like this thread to continue- the top name actors and sports figures are the only ones I would have heard of otherwise. I go look up the others online- there are some fascinating stories here. Shimon Peres hasn’t been mentioned on Yahoo, but I read Nicole Kidman is getting divorced. Don’t care.

@sammydog01

There was an article for Shimon Peres 12 hours ago on the Yahoo homepage by the 5 picture article things, but apparently they’d rather talk about the baby born with 3 parents, than Peres dying.

They don’t even have a regular link for him, instead they have clickbait articles.

@Shrdlu The music of the Academy is one entire folder of the music I’ve uploaded to my cloud storage. Orchestras all over the world will take a moment to remember him before they perform tonight.

@OldCatLady
Years ago our local NPR station was classical, and it sometimes seemed his recordings were all they played. That station is now all news, but the other classical station, WRR, plays a lot of his recordings.

Sometimes I surprise myself and turn on the car radio. WRR, who streams, is (to me) way better at classical than any of the Sirius classical stations. Perhaps it’s just what I became accustomed to growing up.

I know nothing of how to describe it, but have found his stuff has a particular “sound” I like.

@Shrdlu
Perhaps this will fit here, in memory:

@sanspoint Why are we not all posting our favorite pages? Can’t say I believe in it, but I admire the man’s dedication.

@brhfl

Never gets old.

@KDemo

If I was on my laptop, I’d give you more stars.

@KDemo lol came here in hopes that someone would have thought to post this.

@KDemo
I understand your feelings, but I can’t go where you are.

The nation has proven to be more resilient than one might expect many many times. I do not know how this election result will play out over time; it may be worse, or better, than my thoughts and fears project at the moment.

And it may be that humanity itself is at risk. I can come up with scenarios…

But humanity is not dead yet. Not even close.

And there are those in all of our communities who have actually lived thru times and endured times - for years or decades - when humanity and its potential appeared very nearly gone for good. Or perhaps not nearly gone, just plain gone. In real life and real time. Who did not quit; even when they could not believe there were ever to be a path to survival - or to decency.

Life and politics and hope and decency and philosophy-in-action and “working for the good” are all best played as “long games”. Very very “long games”.

I deeply hope that no one here prefers a short alternative to the necessary “long hard game”.

In honor of those who have seen or suffered thru times so hideous that I cannot imagine those eras: those who survived, those who were rescued, those who kept going when all they loved and all they hoped for was lost: I must believe that humanity is very much alive.

@f00l I’m pretty sure they were talking figuratively and not literally.

@f00l - I believe this quote addresses your premise

“As we continue to process the 2016 election results today, there are two conflicting impulses at work. One, for the anti-Trump faction, involves grieving and ranting and expressing shock and horror at the legitimately shocking, horrifying idea that we just elected a man who was endorsed by the KKK, threatens to ban Muslims, has routinely engaged in inappropriate behavior toward women, and, oh yeah, still hasn’t released his tax returns. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” he told us. He said things like that, and he didn’t lose voters.
The other coping mechanism for those on the left is to acknowledge that America has survived difficult periods and challenging presidencies and come out more or less okay on the other side. That’s what both Hillary Clinton and President Obama tried to convey in their respective speeches today, which were clearly attempts to apply balm to a national wound.
The problem with that second impulse, understandable though it may be, is that it normalizes Trump’s behavior. It suggests that what we’re seeing is really all politics as usual when there is nothing at all usual about Trump, and both Clinton and Obama — while conciliatory by necessity today — have been telling us as much for months.”

No one needs another litany of the demagoguery displayed by the man, The damage he will do will resonate around the world for a long time.

@ELUNO
The “figurative” in @KDemo’s statement was apparent. And I can understamd @KDemo’s anguish. I believe there is a lot of anguish right now.

This morning at a coffee shop I heard someone speak with obvious grief about the election this morning. But she is not defeated and has not lost hope. She appeared, according to her speech, to be some sort of low level political activist.

She was also not defeated - according to what I overheard - when she was rescued from one of the Nazi camps in Poland. Excepting her and one aunt, her entire family was dead by then.
(She spoke softly - but appeared sight-impaired. She prob did not realized that if I tried, I could overhear her.)

I admire her toughness and grit and resolve. I intend to go with that.

@KDemo
Trump’s behavior may become more normalized in our culture. Or not. I have no crystal ball to tell me whether the action or the "opposite reaction “” will prevail. Esp if many decent people throw in on that and won’t shut up.

“Politics as usual”? Hardly. At least not yet. Every story I’ve seen called this the biggest upset in American political history, and an enormous and grass roots rebellion by “rural red America”, who appear to have voted against their own economic interests. Eventually, they will notice that they don’t yet have one single new high-wage factory job.

Trump now has to put up where he would not shut up - his wall, his penalize-the-job-exporters programs, and all the his other ideas, which fall into the categories of “laughably uninformed”, “not legally or practically or financially possible in this America”, and “morally hideous”.

How will it look for him when he changes his mind 1000 ways and he’s in power? When he lies and lies and lies and gets caught, and he no longer can appeal to the voters to do a “fuck you” vote because their lives are worse, and Wall Street is richer and more jobs have been offshored and he is obviously a policy puppet on every issue that’s not an applause line in a speech?

When he gets caught in a million active conflicts of interest that rouse die-hard “movement conservatives” to lobby the Justice Dept to go after him? When he gets caught on tape groping someone in the WH? When he either tears his administration/Congessional coalition apart, or appears to be a policy figurehead puppet? When he makes his sociopathic stupidity obvious for the billionth time, but this time he can’t say “What have you got to lose”?

When the voters realize that by voting for “fuck you”, they fucked themselves?

We may get worse. Or better. It may all turn to horror or nuclear winter. But we have a ways to go before we can match many instances of lack of humanity in fairly recent past.

His “tone” has made our nation horribly worse. But not, perhaps, worse for various minority and dispossessed groups that it has been in the living memory of so many Americans not so many decades ago.

I can hardly see telling a still active civil rights worker who was active in the 1950’s and 60’s that “humanity died yesterday”.

If those people preservered, and if they kept and shared their humanity, so can I.

What other option has there ever been, except quitting or not quitting?

Many people in anguish got up this morning with pain, and with resolve and courage. I hope the #'s swell.

@f00l - He has already committed those atrocities, promised more, and look where it got him (and us). Perhaps it’s a matter of semantics. Nearly half of the population is lacking in empathy for all of humankind. I fear that the rest of us will find ourselves fighting again for the same rights so painfully eked out in the 60’s and since. I do not know this country; my heart is broken, my spirit crushed.

@KDemo
I understand.

After much time - I would encourage you to go out and talk to some of the people who voted for him. Esp the “F U to the elites” voters. Perhaps after a lot of time has passed.

I am appalled at that voting choice. I think they voted for a likely sociopath, excused the inexcusable in him, and voted against their country’s interests and against their own economic interests.

But I know some of these persons, and many of them are very good and decent individuals. If you understand them better, can befriend some of them, and you want to stay involved, perhaps you will be better able to find an effective path because if the knowledge.

I heard a reporter today recount an interview from N Carolina. A brief story. A young black man had participated in a Black Lives Matter March. I don’t know the details, but he and I think others would up in jail on minor charges. The first person to visit him and bail him out was a white Republican Trump supporter work colleague.

I can’t explain the contradictions in this Republican’s apparent personal decency and his political choice. I have heard a number of Republicans today say that they think Trump’s entire campaign, his entire personality, is based on a combo of whatever-phrase-he-can-sell self-promo and a huge “having everyone on” bluster in-joke. That it’s an elaborate public game-face farce. I have always seen some evidence for this take on him -from many decades past. He’s a compulsive showman.

I don’t have an answer. And that explanation raises serious ethical issues. But now he’s what we have.

Politics and activism can break your heart and your faith. And then you have to heal, and decide what to do.

I wish I could give you comfort. But I think the only comfort would come from courage, and grit, and knowing you are not alone, and that there are still many things you can do.

So don’t be alone, these days, if you can help it. And I hope you find your way back.

@KDemo This thread is diminished and demeaned by the inclusion of such an unrelated issue, however important you think it is. There are plenty of places to vent, plenty of new topics right here full of relevant comments, discussions, etc. This one is to note, and perhaps in some small way, memorialize those whose lives have ended this year. It is in its own way a memorial wall and deserves at least a modicum of decorum.

I’ve seen too many forums get overrun in the past with people blasting off about whatever the most recent hated event. Forums full of people (often the same group across the whole board) blasting Bush/Obama/Iraq war/blah in damn near every topic; game forums, car forums, electronics forums… Please don’t do that here.

@duodec - Are you serious?? Did you just appoint yourself the death thread police?
Consider that so much hope and what faith remained in the political process did just die for many, and remember that these threads are for all, not just for your narrow vision of what belongs here.
You are the one who just sent it off topic, and thanks for exacerbating the pain.

@f00l - Thank you for your thoughts and supportive words.

@KDemo
Faith in and hope for this nation, its processes and systems has been under assault for decades and longer. Maybe not in ways you felt or saw every time, but it happens and it hurts when things go so terribly wrong, but its not just you. I’d bet that many times events have occurred that you think are right and proper, that rip the hearts out of people whose philosophies don’t match yours. Its no reason to go out venting at everyone all over the place with little or no regard for surrounds, about your sorrow or anger. “Look here’s a place where nobody has started talking about this thing that has me hurting, looks like its for something else entirely, but I’ll start venting here too”.

If you really feel that a request for decorum in one single topic is ‘death thread police’, that a request for the simple courtesy of not turning one single unrelated topic into a place for yet more election diatribes and discussions is such a terrible affront, then I guess there’s no more to say. I wish you all the best.

To you others here, I apologize; I should have sent a message directly by some means rather than post here. I have contributed to the disruption of the topic that I was seeking to minimize, and will not do so again.

@duodec It’s ludicrous to think that I look for a place the point has not been mentioned to bring it up, what you have failed to consider is that to me the post is entirely related to the topic. You are the outlier here. The election results, the effect it will have on our country, our lives, and the lives of our children seem like topics worth discussing as evidenced by so many related conversations.

Venting and talking about it is a first step toward healing; that’s what a forum is for, that’s what people do, and that’s what’s happening all over the internet.

I am so disappointed in you. Wait, are you just trolling? ‘Cause whatever the reason, I’m extremely saddened by your unwarranted attack in this difficult time.

@KDemo
I also reacted in seeing your original post as something of a thread hijack.

Not everyone is going to agree with a single POV about this election, or on the places to express one’s reaction.

In a contentious environment, injecting a post about strong personal pain regarding an election result and a cultural shift into a thread about something else is going to be seen as a partisan act by some, and that’s not beyond reasonable.

Up to now, the thread was about the physical death of persons we know one way or another, not our personal pain at large events.

Either way, neither of you committed anything that looks like a very large crime, or a crime at all. Everyone’s feelings are running a bit high right now. Can we perhaps not take small transgressions quite so seriously?

Self-righteousness doesn’t help, esp, fwiw, when I do it.
So my apologies when I am guilty of that.

I have no idea what @duodec’s feelings about the election are - they might even be in agreement with yours.

Civility and restraint (in action and in judgement) matter on all sides.

I addressed this note to you because @duodec has withdrawn from the conversation.

I find your reaction understandable. But I remember when people I knew personally and have admiration for felt terrible pain when McCain and Romney lost. I know that Trump looks like something very different and more disturbing than a normal candidate. But millions of Americans who are decent persons, not stupid and not evil, voted for him.

If Clinton had won, and some person had come here to post of their anguish, would you have seen that as a thread hijack? Seeing that certain spaces must be respected as “non-partisan” or “not a place for political expression” is one of the fundamentals of civility. Yes, I know, this election result appears to challenge civility itself in some ways. I am hoping not to make it worse.

there are many takes on the election. You might find mine wanting. Or I might find yours so. Ok. And now what? What’s next?

Perhaps way too many of us have been “in a bubble”. Perhaps listening and learning might help.

I am hoping we all - @duodec and you and me and everyone else - can pick up whatever broken pieces there are, rebuild, reach out, hold back on accusations, move on, move forward.

I spoke last evening to a Black Lives Matter activist. She laughed in a sad way and said “Some people who are hurting today seem not to understand how old and constant this is. You just keep going on.”

She works thru some organizations and thru her church. She said the single most effective technique she knew was having church members go out to other churches and social events in rural and ex-urban and “red” territory and to police groups and meet with people and listen. And then ask those people to listen.

@f00l You too? I had faith in your rationale. To me, a thread is a conversation. I never expect conversations to be limited, linear, nor do the participants have to agree. A quick scan above reveals posts about cancer, a dog, Brussels attack, speaker docks, morningsave, another dog, Aunt Evelyn, Orlando attack, Deals.woot. All seemed appropriate to me.
I have many thoughts, but I’m on my way to the airport. Perhaps I’ll further hijack this thread with my comments later.
Maybe I’ll hijack another thread where my comments don’t belong.

@f00l I love you dude but you’re the one who took this entry from a little humorous blip to a whole political discussion (which I didn’t actually read). How about we all wrap it up now?

@KDemo
As you wish.

@f00l

Read it in the NY Times (as you sourced) when it came out.

It felt like a relief to focus on something other than current political situation.

@PlacidPenguin
She deserved a mention apart from yesterday’s election turmoil.

She was not perfect, and AG is a hard job, but she always had integrity. I’m one of her fans.

@f00l
I just now recalled watching (on TV) Leonard Cohen perform at the inaugeration rock concert for Bill Clinton’s first term.

“Please understand,
I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter.”

“Its you, my love, you,
Who are the stranger.
It’s you,my love, you,
Who are the stranger.”

@f00l That does it. I’m spending tomorrow sitting on my patio, watching white cranes flying over the pond, drinking kir and streaming Leonard Cohen. Everyone is invited to join me. We’ll sing along to the ones we know. I still remember the first time I heard Judy Collins sing ‘Suzanne’. Cohen’s most famous song is certainly ‘Hallelujah’.

@OldCatLady I know that song from Shrek. I’ll join you. No cranes here but I can watch the squirrels.

@OldCatLady
Suzanne performed by Cohen

Judy Collins

Noel Harrison

Joan Baez

Hallelujah performed by Jeff Buckley

Hell of a week.

“Ah, you hate to see another tired man
Lay down his hand like he was giving up the holy game of poker
And while he talks his dreams to sleep you notice there’s a highway
That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
It’s curling just like smoke above his shoulder”

“And then taking from his wallet
An old schedule of trains, he’ll say
I told you when I came I was a stranger
I told you when I came I was a stranger
I told you when I came I was a stranger
I told you when I came I was a stranger”

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen

I really hate this fucking thread.

Saddened this passing wasn’t placed out in the main discussion. This one hits me harder than maybe any other yet this year.

@Pavlov But Louise Penny wrote one of the best books of 2013, based on that line. It’s integral to the plot. It’s also the title. Cohen’s poetry changed people, and the world. He’s worth celebrating. We can’t wake him properly, so I’m doing it in my own way,

@OldCatLady
I love Louise Penny’s books.

@Pavlov
Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye

Anthem
Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee

This one would halve punched me in any circumstance. But this week - I have a glass I usually don’t have during the work week. And his music plays. Some week.

Thanks, Leonard Cohen.

@f00l The cherry on the top of a perfectly sucky week. Hallelujah.

@mimsy
@OldCatLady
Bob Dylan performs Hallelujah

@f00l Rest in Peace.

@duodec
Wow.

I loved that show. And he was a damned fine actor.

@duodec I loved that show too.

@duodec @f00l @sammydog01
I had forgotten how much ‘sex appeal’ was built into that show. And smoking; lots of smoking…

@Shrdlu
@duodec

Damn. What a week.

Here’s his less folky cover of "Hard Rain"

@sligett
Yeah she was s rock.

/youtube Gwen Ifill

@f00l <tears> Thanks! <tears>

@KDemo

Sigh

Apparently she suffered heart failure the day before.

@heartny
I know someone who went to Cuba as part of some sort of artists’ group in the mid 1980’s. They got to meet Castro. He liked to talk. A lot.

They had a few hours with him. He lectured on every topic that came up. He gave a detailed argument on why baseball leagues with designated hitters were more socio-economically forward and “of the people” than leagues who do not allow a DH.

She found him to be one of those fascinatingly intelligent and energetic sorts who has enough political savvy to insulate himself from any possible exterior contradiction - either by people or by facts.

@heartny
Good. If his rotting corpse spontaneously caught on fire, I wouldn’t piss on it to put it out.
Fuck that guy.

@duodec
Well that just sucks.

And young, too. Damn.

@f00l Yes, another sad loss,. I really liked his characters and acting; my favorite was Shepherd Book. He left us a legacy of wonderful portrayals and characters

@duodec Fucking sad as hell. He was lovely. Just after reading a friend’s post on Facebook regarding this, came a post that informed me my old supervisor and friend died on thanksgiving when she fell and hit her head. Her daughter is also a friend. They’re a huge and incredibly close family that goes nuts on holidays. I can’t even imagine what this will do to them.

@KittySprinkles
Oh no. So sorry.

@KittySprinkles I am so sorry for your loss, and theirs.

@no1 As a 14 year old, I was awed by his speed and power.

@RiotDemon

@KDemo

Ad Astra

this year really sucks.

As a little kid in elementary school I remember being crowded into a classroom to watch his flight on a small b&w TV. I couldn’t tell what I was watching or understand the staticky communications. Later found out it was a close up angle of his face.
The teacher did instill a sense of awe at his momentous achievement.