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Post by Lt. Broccoli on Feb 13, 2021 15:30:06 GMT -5
Lost another medieval historian, Cyril Mango, who has the second-best fruit name after Canaan Banana.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 17, 2021 12:35:45 GMT -5
In lighter news, Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 17, 2021 12:44:28 GMT -5
In lighter news, Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70. Obviously a vile human being both philosophically and ethically, but he was also an innovator and top of his field. When I worked for a city parks department, I listened to Rush on the days I had to drive the water truck because it had only an AM radio and it was that or sports talk. It was riveting to hear someone that compellingly wrong; from what I've heard of clowns like Beck and Hannity, they can only pretend to match the potency and verve that Rush did 4+ hours a day. Now let's get to reclaiming "My City Was Gone". |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Feb 17, 2021 19:10:35 GMT -5
In lighter news, Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70. In the way-back days when I was more conservative around 2000, I listened to Rush and Dr. Laura at work. I credit both of them for contributing to my gradual slide to liberalism, as both of their radio shows could be summed up as, "Wow, you're an asshole who refuses to engage in an honest discussion with anyone, and just shouts down people you think are wrong." Alternate response:  |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 18, 2021 10:07:29 GMT -5
Ewart Beckford a.k.a. U-Roy, arguably the first dancehall/toasting superstar. |
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Post by songstarliner on Feb 19, 2021 9:30:38 GMT -5
Ewart Beckford a.k.a. U-Roy, arguably the first dancehall/toasting superstar. Who could hope to be so cool? |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 23, 2021 20:04:52 GMT -5
RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and publisher, nurturer of the Beats
Edited to add: And another person who fought US censorship laws, but wasn't also the worst, like Larry Flynt.
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Post by patbat on Mar 2, 2021 12:19:27 GMT -5
RIP Bunny Wailer
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 2, 2021 12:32:23 GMT -5
Vernon Jordan, 85, a civil rights icon and friend of Bill Clinton. He also graduated from my alma mater and was the only Black student (probably the only Black person in the whole damn town, if I had to guess) at the time. After four years in a podunk Klan town in Indiana no wonder he went on to Howard for his JD. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 9, 2021 14:02:16 GMT -5
Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth.Jules Feiffer is somehow still alive. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 10, 2021 22:24:10 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 15, 2021 23:27:57 GMT -5
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 16, 2021 5:47:04 GMT -5
He was one of the finalists for Picard. As good as Stewart was in the role, I'm really curious as to what Yaphet Kotto would have been like. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 17, 2021 12:52:45 GMT -5
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 22, 2021 6:42:30 GMT -5
In news that I assume means little to not-UK people Iain Pattinson, the long-time scriptwriter on the unspeakably brilliant radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has died. He wrote most of the scripts solo for over two decades and has brought an absurdly high amount of joy into my life so I was very sad to see this. Should not-UK need a fix of British comedy and have a long car journey coming up (and if you can find it) I cannot recommend ISIHAC enough. Start somewhere in the mid-90's. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/19176287.obituary-iain-pattinson-brilliant-scriptwriter-sorry-havent-clue/ |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Mar 23, 2021 22:25:52 GMT -5
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 25, 2021 13:43:51 GMT -5
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Post by Jingle Bell She-Hulk on Mar 25, 2021 13:59:10 GMT -5
I just gasped when I saw your post. I REFUSE THIS. |
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 25, 2021 14:04:36 GMT -5
I just gasped when I saw your post. I REFUSE THIS. I know, it's hard to believe she's gone - she was so iconic. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 25, 2021 15:02:53 GMT -5
"This isn't my first Grand Prix" |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Mar 26, 2021 6:39:13 GMT -5
She left when she was good and ready.  |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 26, 2021 9:56:26 GMT -5
I'm hardly a TV show fan, but she anchored what I would guess is the greatest cast of characters. And she was funny as shit. |
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Post by Celebith on Mar 26, 2021 13:42:12 GMT -5
Adios, Larry McMurtryLonesome Dove was the first novel of his I read, in a two day sprint while we were in Somalia. It's still one of my favorite books, but nothing else he wrote was half as good, and it took me a while to get used to that. Horseman, Pass By, Last Picture Show and a few others were close, though.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Mar 26, 2021 13:54:54 GMT -5
Adios, Larry McMurtryLonesome Dove was the first novel of his I read, in a two day sprint while we were in Somalia. It's still one of my favorite books, but nothing else he wrote was half as good, and it took me a while to get used to that. Horseman, Pass By, Last Picture Show and a few others were close, though. I agree. I read a few others of his but just didn't really get that interested. |
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Post by Celebith on Mar 26, 2021 14:08:59 GMT -5
He's done a ton of stuff, but I remember him from Murphy's Law, an 80s private-eye show based on a detective series by one of the guys who wrote the Remo Williams novels. It was decent, even if it only ran for a half a dozen or so episodes, and heavily bowlderized everything about the books. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Mar 26, 2021 17:37:44 GMT -5
Goodbye to Beverly Cleary at 104, whose books not only Mrs. Rumak and I grew up reading, but my mom grew up with. |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 26, 2021 21:38:13 GMT -5
Rosa has been obsessed with Ramona and Ralph for the last six months, and I have been consistently blown away by how good Beverly Cleary’s books were in their observations of actual family life, and in their resolute decision to look at the small pleasures and large difficulties of working class life. A real treasure. RIP.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Mar 26, 2021 21:50:28 GMT -5
Goodbye to Beverly Cleary at 104, whose books not only Mrs. Rumak and I grew up reading, but my mom grew up with. She was brilliant. As so many others are saying, she just GOT the way kids think and act so well. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 27, 2021 10:03:23 GMT -5
I grew up with Cleary as well, and Lowry (don't you fucking take Lowry, 2021!). What a loss.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 27, 2021 14:08:54 GMT -5
Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show and co-screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain. |
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