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Old 07-06-2020, 09:31 PM
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To this day, I STILL :lol: upon recalling that Fox News used Charlie "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag, And We Don't Wear It On Our Head" Daniels as a constitutional law expert in the aftermath of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding that inclusion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional.
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Old 07-13-2020, 09:41 PM
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Kelly Preston, 57, due to breast cancer: Kelly Preston, actress and wife of John Travolta, has died following a two-year battle with breast cancer - CNN
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Old 07-14-2020, 08:37 AM
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Old 07-14-2020, 10:51 PM
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Losing Grant makes me sad. Random aneurism.

Unrelated, Mathematician Ron Graham died July 6th at the age of 84
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Old 07-18-2020, 01:39 PM
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RIP Rep. John Lewis, civil rights giant and 33-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Old 07-19-2020, 04:33 AM
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I just saw the story about John Lewis at ComicCon today, and I've been weepy over it since.
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Old 07-21-2020, 03:47 PM
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Maybe not that famous since I didn't know he existed until I saw Twitter in an uproar over his passing, but Michael Brooks seems to have been loved by everyone who knew him.

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Old 07-22-2020, 10:15 PM
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Also not necessarily that famous, Tim Smith of Cardiacs has died at age 59. He'd apparently been extremely sick since suffering a heart attack and stroke back in 2008.


When Smith first got ill, some of his fellow British musicians did an album of Cardiacs cover tunes to help with the medical expenses. This was Steven Wilson's contribution:


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I am deeply saddened to read of the passing of Tim Smith from Cardiacs today. Even though Tim had been ill for many years, it's still hard for me to think of him as gone, as his music made such a big impression on me, and continues to do so. He had one of the few truly unique sounds and musical personalities you could ever hope to hear, it was almost impossible to understand where his music came from and what his influences might have been. In that respect he was a true original, and like many other true originals he paid the price of being a cult artist, relatively under the radar for most of his career. But for those that 'got' Cardiacs they almost without exception went on to become their favourite band. A few years ago when Tim first became ill I contributed a cover version of one of his most beautiful compositions Stone Age Dinosaurs to an album released to raise funds for his medical care, and I would like to share it with you here as my eulogy to Tim.
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Old 07-25-2020, 05:47 PM
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Peter Green. Fleetwood Mac founder, singer, composer, and guitarist.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53539989

He was one of the, sadly many, great rock artists profoundly damaged by drugs. He survived to the age of 73, though something of a shadow of his former self.

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Old 07-26-2020, 01:12 AM
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Damn. Oh Well and Black Magic Woman are a couple of my all-time favorites. Amazing he lived this long. He got diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 70s, when the mental health profession's "cure" for everything was locking the patient in a psych hospital and administering lots and lots of electroconvulsive therapy.

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Old 07-26-2020, 01:34 AM
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Announced today that Regis Philbin has passed.

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Old 07-26-2020, 02:59 AM
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John Fucking Saxon

Frequently a shining light in the crappy movies I watch.
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Olivia de Havilland, golden age of Hollywood star, dies at 104 - BBC News
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I think she was the last of the Gone With the Wind cast to die - certainly the last of the main cast. I think she outlived everyone.
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Frequently a shining light in the crappy movies I watch.
He was in a bunch of 70s cop shows, usually playing the heavy.
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Also The Commitments. And Pink Floyd - The Wall. And Birdy.
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Wilford Brimley, Actor and Diabeetus Guy dies aged 85

I thought he was already dead. :oops:
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John Hume, former SDLP leader and Nobel peace prize winner, dies at 83 | Northern Ireland | The Guardian

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Hume was described on Monday as “the man who kept hope alive” during the darkest days of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
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The execrable Michael Gove sinks to the occasion:

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Just found out that drummer/keyboardist Bill Rieflin died in March at the ripe old age of 59 (cancer). Among others he worked with Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Taylor Swift, Toyah Wilcox, and most recently King Crimson. I saw him with KC in 2017, though by that time he was playing keyboards exclusively. Tributes from King Crimson bandmates and others are available here.

Rieflin is in the middle here, flanked by fellow King Crimson drummers Pat Mastelloto and Gavin Harrison.

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Chadwick Boseman has died.
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Sad sad news. He was so young!
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Old 08-29-2020, 07:35 PM
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Good article on his achievements Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther star dies of cancer aged 43 | Film | The Guardian
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