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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 21, 2019 11:07:10 GMT -5
RIP James Cotton, harmonica player who worked with Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters (this obituary brought to you by my dad)
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Mar 23, 2019 10:14:59 GMT -5
RIP John Carl Buechler, special effects artist behind Troll and Ghoulies.
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Post by Jimmy James on Mar 25, 2019 7:11:22 GMT -5
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 26, 2019 17:30:56 GMT -5
Ranking Roger of the English Beat and General Public died this morning.
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 26, 2019 18:05:07 GMT -5
Ranking Roger of the English Beat and General died this morning. Well, fuck. That's sad news.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 18:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 26, 2019 23:38:44 GMT -5
I see now that this video is redundant, but oh well. This is the song that introduced me to the English Beat. The college station in Champaign played a lot of new-wave-ish stuff while I was working in the electronics factory there. That expanded my musical horizons at least another 5 years past "classic rock".
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Post by Celebith on Mar 27, 2019 21:09:17 GMT -5
I see now that this video is redundant, but oh well. This is the song that introduced me to the English Beat. The college station in Champaign played a lot of new-wave-ish stuff while I was working in the electronics factory there. That expanded my musical horizons at least another 5 years past "classic rock".
It's nice having a younger cohort around to introduce you to new music, or at least music you wouldn't otherwise listen to. There's a lot of great music I probably wouldn't have heard if it wasn't for my kids. |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Mar 28, 2019 15:53:00 GMT -5
Aw man, now we've lost Larry Cohen too. Writer/director of The Stuff and God Told Me To. The latter of which I've been meaning to rewatch...
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 28, 2019 19:09:42 GMT -5
Aw man, now we've lost Larry Cohen too. Writer/director of The Stuff and God Told Me Too. The latter of which I've been meaning to rewatch... Dammit, Q the Winged Serpent is one of my favorites: |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2019 2:22:28 GMT -5
Both members and their tour members dead in a car crash. Never heard of them but got bummed enough to look them up. Good stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2019 20:21:24 GMT -5
and a serious song:
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 1, 2019 7:14:48 GMT -5
That was a brilliant bit. |
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Post by Celebith on Apr 2, 2019 19:32:11 GMT -5
'Bye, Vonda McIntyre. It's kinda amazing how many Star Wars ( 1) and Star Trek books ( all of them?) of yours I read, and how few of your other books I got around to. ETA Actually, I seem to have read a bunch of her short stories, too. Just not many of her novels. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Apr 4, 2019 6:00:56 GMT -5
Aww Vonda McIntryre died? This thread has done its work, because I didn't know and that makes me very sad. I've read probably all of her Star Trek books it's probably not healthy. It's not like losing Ursula leGuin, but it's still a sad thing indeed. Prominent female authors in genre fiction just aren't that common even now and I was always happy to see her name on a book cover.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 15, 2019 12:24:39 GMT -5
G oodbye, Gene Wolfe -Aside from inventing / developing Pringles,* Wolfe was the author of the Book / Urth of the New Sun and follow-on series. His writing was dense and rich, using antiquated terms in ways that were still easy to grok. The New Sun books were (at first not obviously) set on a dying Earth, and featured an (at first not obviously) unreliable narrator. The other novels in the setting are almost as accessible as the New Sun volumes were dense, and still quite good, but they all deal with the fallibility of individual and institutional 'memories' in some way, among other topics. I really ought to re-read them at some point.  There have been a few versions of these covers and combined editions, but after struggling with the & for years as a kid, I immediately adopted this version. This has nothing to do with Wolfe's writing, but I still appreciate it. *
"LP: Along those lines, is it true you invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips?
GW: I developed it. I did not invent it. That was done by a German gentlemen whose name I've forgotten for years. I developed the machine that cooks them. He had invented the basic idea, how to make the potato dough, pressing it between two forms, more or less as in a wrap-around, immersing them in hot cooking oil, and so forth and so on. And we were then called in, I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/dough rolling portion, which was done by Len Hooper, and the cooking portion, which was done by me, and then the pickoff and salting portion, which was done by someone else, and then the can filling/can sealing portion which was done by a man who was almost driven insane by the program." |
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Post by Prole Hole on Apr 17, 2019 8:19:24 GMT -5
Georgette off of Mary Tyler Moore Show news.avclub.com/r-i-p-the-mary-tyler-moore-shows-georgia-engel-1834087248MTM is probably my favourite U.S. sitcom of all time (the only two that come close are Frasier/Cheers and 30 Rock, the latter of which is basically just MTM for the 00's). We lost the mighty Ms Moore what feels like so recently and it's sad to have another leave us. She was the rare actor that could take the "dumb bimbo" role and make it both sympathetic and understandable without ever just being patronising or reductionist, and so much of that is down to Georgia Engel's performance. Enjoy your rest, you earned it. |
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Post by Jimmy James on Apr 17, 2019 9:15:00 GMT -5
G oodbye, Gene Wolfe -Aside from inventing / developing Pringles,* Wolfe was the author of the Book / Urth of the New Sun and follow-on series. His writing was dense and rich, using antiquated terms in ways that were still easy to grok. The New Sun books were (at first not obviously) set on a dying Earth, and featured an (at first not obviously) unreliable narrator. The other novels in the setting are almost as accessible as the New Sun volumes were dense, and still quite good, but they all deal with the fallibility of individual and institutional 'memories' in some way, among other topics. I really ought to re-read them at some point. I did not know that about the Pringles, but I assume his mustache was the inspiration for their logo as well.
I should revisit those as well- as you say, they're quite dense, and I think there was a lot that I likely missed on the first time through. The New Sun / Long Sun / Short Sun series remind me of Clarke's old line about "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." While I would classify them as science fiction, it seems close to fantasy just because the technology is so advanced, and yet so old to the characters.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Apr 18, 2019 16:53:58 GMT -5
Aw shit…thanks for the heads-up repulsionist . Love this photo of him, too:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 16:25:58 GMT -5
Say what you will about John Singleton’s later films, but if you can pop out a film like this that’s a life well lived in my book:
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 2, 2019 17:54:16 GMT -5
Peter Mayhew, best known as Chewbacca, has died. He seemed like a super sweet giant of a man who loved his fans. My husband met him once at a con and said his hands were enormous. Rest In Peace, and may the force be with you.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on May 3, 2019 16:39:35 GMT -5
Peter Mayhew, best known as Chewbacca, has died. He seemed like a super sweet giant of a man who loved his fans. My husband met him once at a con and said his hands were enormous. Rest In Peace, and may the force be with you. I'm actually really surprised he made it to 75. I think men with Marfans usually die fairly young. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 3, 2019 16:52:24 GMT -5
Peter Mayhew, best known as Chewbacca, has died. He seemed like a super sweet giant of a man who loved his fans. My husband met him once at a con and said his hands were enormous. Rest In Peace, and may the force be with you. I'm actually really surprised he made it to 75. I think men with Marfans usually die fairly young. 74, but yeah, I know that can weaken the heart. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 4, 2019 14:13:56 GMT -5
I know most of you probably have no idea who Rachel Held Evans is, but she was a progressive Christian writer and speaker who advocated for full lgbt acceptance in the church and spoke against toxic fundie culture. She died this morning at age 37, leaving behind a husband and two small children.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on May 4, 2019 19:11:48 GMT -5
I know most of you probably have no idea who Rachel Held Evans is, but she was a progressive Christian writer and speaker who advocated for full lgbt acceptance in the church and spoke against toxic fundie culture. She died this morning at age 37, leaving behind a husband and two small children. Mrs. Rumak is a huge fan and is quite sad about this. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on May 4, 2019 22:14:54 GMT -5
I know most of you probably have no idea who Rachel Held Evans is, but she was a progressive Christian writer and speaker who advocated for full lgbt acceptance in the church and spoke against toxic fundie culture. She died this morning at age 37, leaving behind a husband and two small children. Mrs. Rumak is a huge fan and is quite sad about this. We also saw Endgame this afternoon so it’s been a very emotional day for me. |
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Post by Dellarigg on May 10, 2019 6:54:25 GMT -5
Madcap comedian Freddie Starr.
Not a performer to my taste - in a world of alternative comedy, he was too old-school, too ITV mainstream. Having said that, in the way he would reliably 'go too far' on chat shows (and no doubt real life), he always reminded me of my uncles: their sense of humour similarly resulted in upset and tears more often than not.
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Post by The Most Popular Commenter on May 12, 2019 0:31:33 GMT -5
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