*Tyler was a slaveholder and, given the common practices of the time, we can't rule out the possibility of additional unacknowledged descendants of America's 10th president.
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a regular contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language (Gikuyu), has died aged 87.
One of the greats. 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.'
Peter David, Star Trek and comics author, has just died after suffering health problems for some time. I met him once at a Comic Con - he was lovely.
I know him mainly for his future Spider-Man and X-Men adjacent stories, but he's best known for his work on the Incredible Hulk in what was maybe the last really formative run from Marvel's eighties heyday.
I find myself blinking a bit at how old the cast of M*A*S*H are/were; it doesn't seem that long ago!
Same here.
Meanwhile, Valerie Mahaffey—Northern Exposure (for which she won an Emmy), Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, and many other movies and tv shows—died from cancer over the weekend. She was 71,
Just saw that the great biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has died at 92.
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
Just saw that the great biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has died at 92.
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
I hadn’t seen that, and am sorry to see it. He was indeed a great scholar.
“Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose path-finding, psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late ’60s and early ’70s, has died. He was 82.”
Little factoid, Brian never surfed. He hated the ocean. Growing up he lived near a beach, but the constant wave action unnerved him. His final home was several miles inland and it faced east.
I was surprised to read of the death of Kim Woodburn (How clean is your house). I had not picked her as being in her early 80's, but that's me not taking notice of how quickly time is passing, I suspect.
This is terribly sad. He has been very ill for some months, and there was a special MND match in his honour locally and arranged by Gloucestershire CC only this Friday which he was too ill to get to.
I don't think anyone's mentioned him either here or in the Celebrity Death Pool, but despite not being a Liverpool fan, I found myself feeling very sad to hear about Diogo Jota's tragic and sudden death in a car crash at the age of 28. In fact, I know so little about footie that I hadn't even heard of him until the other day.
Prayers ascending for his wife and three children.
The New York Times is reporting that Malcolm Jamal Warner, “Theo” on The Cosby Show, has drowned while swimming at a beach in Costa Rica. He was 54.
And there doesn’t seem to be an obituary online yet, but church musician, composer and arranger Hal H. Hopson died yesterday in Texas. He was 92. Hymnary.org says he had 1,300 published works—hymns and hymn tunes, responsorial psalms, choral anthems and organ works. His music and texts are familiar to many in my denomination (in which he spent much of his career), and I suspect to many in other North American denominations as well. He was actively working until quite recently.
Osbourne had what was billed as a final concert about two weeks ago (July 5). It was a charity concert for various medical causes and is reportedly the highest grossing charity concert of all time (to date). That seems like a good way to make an exit.
Osbourne had what was billed as a final concert about two weeks ago (July 5). It was a charity concert for various medical causes and is reportedly the highest grossing charity concert of all time (to date). That seems like a good way to make an exit.
Osbourne's commercial image in the early 80s was like the final cornballing of that byronic-yeatsian-crowleyite thingamabob that had been going on in British rock since at least the Stones.
There WAS Iron Maiden around the same time, of course, but their personas seemed slanted less toward gothic and more toward comic-book. Also, with Maiden, the evil presence manifested in characters entirely outside of the band. Whereas Ozzy was presented as himself a creature of the horrific world his iconography presented.
When Ozzy performed in my hometown in the northwest Canadian flyover, the local music-critic wrote a review of the concert, and reported that, in one stunt, Ozzy was being flown around the stadium on a giant hand, and at one drifted toward a giant banner reading OZZY IS GOD. Ozzy replied "Forgive them Father, for they not what they do!"
Apart from that, I think the warmest memory of the guy is when he partnered with his AA sponsor Pat Boone to promote the latter's album of metal-to-lounge covers. The only one I really know is Crazy Train, which works at least as a novelty item.
Apart from that, I think the warmest memory of the guy is when he partnered with his AA sponsor Pat Boone to promote the latter's album of metal-to-lounge covers. The only one I really know is Crazy Train, which works at least as a novelty item.
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*Tyler was a slaveholder and, given the common practices of the time, we can't rule out the possibility of additional unacknowledged descendants of America's 10th president.
One of the greats. 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.'
Meanwhile, Valerie Mahaffey—Northern Exposure (for which she won an Emmy), Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, and many other movies and tv shows—died from cancer over the weekend. She was 71,
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
https://trib.al/0iK2d7y
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-krykant-dies-suddenly-tributes-35376184
As Sean Lennon said, the American Mozart. One of the greats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjmmmrl4mz7o
He was outstanding.
😪 RIP Syd, brought down in life, as in cricket, by ghastly injury.
Newscaster Sandy Gall, who would certainly have been on my "I thought he'd been dead for years" list.
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Prayers ascending for his wife and three children.
Also, Gerald Harper, the actor most famous for Adam Adamant in the 1960s and Hadleigh in the 1970s, has died at the great age of 96!
Nooo! He can't have been so very much older than me - oh, wait...
The New York Times is reporting that Malcolm Jamal Warner, “Theo” on The Cosby Show, has drowned while swimming at a beach in Costa Rica. He was 54.
And there doesn’t seem to be an obituary online yet, but church musician, composer and arranger Hal H. Hopson died yesterday in Texas. He was 92. Hymnary.org says he had 1,300 published works—hymns and hymn tunes, responsorial psalms, choral anthems and organ works. His music and texts are familiar to many in my denomination (in which he spent much of his career), and I suspect to many in other North American denominations as well. He was actively working until quite recently.
I'd say that's a hell of a way to make an exit.
What an interesting life!
There WAS Iron Maiden around the same time, of course, but their personas seemed slanted less toward gothic and more toward comic-book. Also, with Maiden, the evil presence manifested in characters entirely outside of the band. Whereas Ozzy was presented as himself a creature of the horrific world his iconography presented.
When Ozzy performed in my hometown in the northwest Canadian flyover, the local music-critic wrote a review of the concert, and reported that, in one stunt, Ozzy was being flown around the stadium on a giant hand, and at one drifted toward a giant banner reading OZZY IS GOD. Ozzy replied "Forgive them Father, for they not what they do!"
Apart from that, I think the warmest memory of the guy is when he partnered with his AA sponsor Pat Boone to promote the latter's album of metal-to-lounge covers. The only one I really know is Crazy Train, which works at least as a novelty item.
https://hanfordsentinel.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/rev-john-macarthur-influential-evangelical-pastor-of-california-megachurch-dies-at-86/article_58a27c20-3985-46c8-b285-97df745df9a1.amp.html
For those who are interested, here is Pat Boone's cover of Crazy Train.