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Old 09-02-2022, 09:17 PM
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Barbara Ehrenreich, author who resisted injustice, dies aged 81 | Books | The Guardian

I just recently read the article she and her then-partner John wrote coining the term "Professional Managerial Class".
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Old 09-06-2022, 09:30 PM
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I loved The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub when I read it decades ago.

Straub passed away today at 79.
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Old 09-07-2022, 02:08 PM
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I loved The Talisman but I also enjoyed Straub's Ghost Story. Rarely does a book make me throw it aside in fright like that.
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Old 09-07-2022, 03:20 PM
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Old 09-08-2022, 01:46 AM
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Old 09-08-2022, 06:54 PM
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I guess she's the most famous death we've had, and are likely to have.



Queen Elizabeth II

From the linkWith her death, her eldest son Charles, the former Prince of Wales, will lead the country in mourning as the new King and head of state for 14 Commonwealth realms.
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Old 09-08-2022, 08:47 PM
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Seriously. The closest comp I can think of from my lifetime was Pope John Paul II.

Vin Scully bringing up a distant third.
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Old 09-09-2022, 01:56 AM
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Sometimes REALLY famous people die.

I was surprised how quickly she went - she was meeting with the new PM on Tuesday, wasn't it?
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:omg: Liz Truss abolished the monarchy!
However, Miisa has a plausible, even compelling, theory: Liz Truss (wooden delivery, absence of affect, gaping mouth at odd moments, shambolic gait especially when trying to leave a meeting room) is in fact a zombie, and bit Her Majesty on Monday.

At some point, the Queen will rise from her undeath bed and commence a terrible new reign.
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Old 09-10-2022, 02:41 AM
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I would read that graphic novel.
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Old 09-10-2022, 04:09 AM
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More notorious than famous, Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez at 75.

He was reported dead back in July, but relatives recently confirmed it. He was responsible for the ship (and impaired when it happened), but I would bet that Exxon running an understaffed and overworked crew was more of a factor than anything.
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Old 09-13-2022, 04:31 PM
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Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French New Wave, dies at 91 | Jean-Luc Godard | The Guardian
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Old 09-14-2022, 01:25 AM
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Ken Starr died :cincin:
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Old 09-14-2022, 01:36 AM
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Ramsey Lewis, Jazz pianist, dies at 87

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Old 09-14-2022, 02:44 AM
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The guy who made a career out of a blowjob, and then covered up a gang rape while President of Baylor University.

On that note, I'm having steak for dinner this evening.
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Old 09-16-2022, 07:28 PM
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Fred Franzia, age 79, who brought Charles Shaw wine, more widely known as Two-Buck Chuck, to Trader Joe's.
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I don't know anything about the philosopher Saul Kripke that I haven't read in the last hour, but his death has been mentioned on my feed a few times (both admiringly for his work and critically for his alleged stalking and harassment of women students/colleagues).
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Old 09-24-2022, 04:20 AM
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RIP Kai Winn Adami, known in this universe as Louise Fletcher. Ever since I found out she was Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest, in my head cannon Kai Winn Adami is Nurse Ratchet in the Benny Russel universe (where Sisko and the crew are writers).

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Old 09-25-2022, 12:46 AM
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If an afterlife there be, Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane are now reunited, and surely have two gigs a night scheduled for the next year.

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Coolio passes at 59

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Coolio died Wednesday in Los Angeles.

The rapper who achieved enormous success in the 90s was visiting a friend late Wednesday afternoon when he passed away.

Coolio's longtime manager, Jarez, says Coolio went to the bathroom at his friend's house, but when he didn't come out after a while ... the friend kept calling for him, and eventually went in and found Coolio laying on the floor.
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Just saw that.

Gangster's Paradise was the unofficial theme tune of Johannesburg, where the car number plates ended in GP - officially for Gauteng Province, but we knew better.
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It's weird that this thread is in "Arts and Literature".

Anyway.

RIP Sacheen Littlefeather, activist who declined Godfather Oscar on Brando's behalf.

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Loretta Lynn has died, aged 90

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Lola Albright - Wikipedia didn't show up in a simple search of this thrad. March 23, 2017
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