BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die

[JoeP]

BBC News - Sixto Rodriguez: Searching for Sugar Man singer dies aged 81

I don't if y'all have heard of Rodriguez but he really was popular in SA.

Sixto Rodriguez - Sugar Man - YouTube

Rodriguez: First performance in Africa, crowd...

[Stephen Maturin]

Oh, man. We saw Rodriguez open for Brian Wilson back in 2012 or thereabouts. What an awesome singer/songwriter.

Speaking of which, RIP Robbie Robertson of The Band.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Speaking of which, RIP Robbie Robertson of The Band.

All these folks in my age bracket startin' leave town.
Damn. Makes a fella nervous, if ya know what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KP9...eRobertsonVEVO

[Sock Puppet]

David LaFlamme, cofounder of It's A Beautiful Day, 82.

Not that I even realized he was still alive, but still.

The article doesn't mention "Hot Summer Day," which is on my list of greatest songs of any era.

Hot Summer Day - YouTube

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Not done with Pee Wee yet

Pee-wee Herman on The Dating Game - YouTube

[viscousmemories]

Clarence Avant, the 'Black Godfather' of Entertainment, Dies at 92 - Variety

There already exists and will soon be plenty more of fawning coverage of the man (see the

Netflix special

) so here's a critique:

The Black Godfather�: Clarence Avant and the Ruling Class Use of Black Pop Culture* | Black Agenda Report

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Still not done with Pee Wee

Pee Wee Herman - Bird is the Word - 'Surfin Bird...

[JoeP]

Bindeshwar Pathak, "toilet man" who revolutionised sanitation in India, dies at 80 | India | The Guardian

[JoeP]

Not Parkie!

Michael Parkinson, broadcaster and talkshow host, dies aged 88 | Television | The Guardian

[vremya]

RIP doge

[Ari]

Wow did you know Bob Barker was still alive?
Also Bob Barker dies at 99.

[Insert cartoon of Bob at the gates of heaven bidding $1 more than someone else for entry.]

Bob Barker, longtime host of 'The Price Is Right' and animal rights activist, dies at 99 | ABC

[viscousmemories]

I'll take "things I wouldn't have guessed in a million years for $10, Bob."

Barker spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. The U.S. Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940, list Barker as an enrolled member of the Sioux tribe.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

As close to 100 as possible without going over.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Arleen Sorkin - Wikipedia

[Ari]

For those that didn’t grow up with Batman the Animated Series, Sorkin *was* Harley Quinn.

Harley was a new character created specifically for the series, which while animated often had complex adult themes, such as acknowledging the fact that Batman’s enemies are often mentally damaged victims themselves and Batman goes up against them because as a mentally damaged victim himself he understands and empathizes with them.

Quinn is the epitome of this, an intelligent psychiatrist that’s bad not because she’s born evil but because she’s not stable enough to handle how she’s been abused and it results in hurting others.

Similar to Mark Hamill elevating the Joker, it’s Sorkin’s acting that gets all of this across in a way that turned a one episode character into a franchise big hitter.

[viscousmemories]

That was such a confusing trip. Arlene Sorkin (no relation to Aaron) was married to Christopher Lloyd, producer (no relation to Christopher Lloyd, actor).

[Stephen Maturin]

"Joe the Plumber," who's actual name was not Joe but instead Samuel and who was not a plumber but instead an idiot, dead at 49 of pancreatic cancer. The dumbass became the talk of the wingnutosphere back in 2008 when he asked then-candidate Barack Obama about his ever-so-oppressive tax plan that, if implemented, would prevent ol' "Joe" from starting the imaginary plumbing business he had neither the legal authority nor the monetary wherewithal to start. The liberal () MSM fawned over "Joe" as well, cuz what would the 2008 POTUS election be without some big, fat 4th Estate thumbs on the McCain/Palin side of the scale?

My favorite "Joe the Plumber" story happened in 2012. As a result of the 2010 census, Ohio lost a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The wingnuts in the state legislature redrew the district boundaries such that two long-time Dem stalwarts, Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich, ended up in the same district. Kaptur won the 2012 Dem primary, ending Kucinich's long run in the House. Republicans in that district nominated "Joe" to take on Kaptur in the general election. Kaptur won with 73% to "Joe's" 23% (with some 4% going to a lolbert). I loled, even though the fact that "Joe" got 23% was more than a little horrifying.

Anyhoo, fuck Samuel the Idiot.

ETA:

Days of "Joe the Plumber" Past: "Your dead kids don't trump my [Second Amendment] rights."

[ChuckF]

what the hell

A GiveSendGo fundraiser was created online to help raise for Wurzelbacher's cancer treatment, which was updated on Sunday to address Wurzelbacher's death.

Seems like socialism?

[Stephen Maturin]

Another lily-livered, other-people's-money-dependent charity case who couldn't - or wouldn't - do for himself and his family.

Sad.

[Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by vremya

RIP doge

Bob Barker is probably chasing him around Heaven with a neutering device.

[LarsMac]

‘Margaritaville’ singer Jimmy Buffett

Damn! That's a shame. He was still young.

I gotta say that I liked his music a lot better in the early days, before the whole Parrothead/Margaritaville thing took off.
But, he was one who truly made the most of life.

[Ari]

Steve Harwell Singer of Smash Mouth, died from chronic liver failure due to alcoholism.
Steve Harwell, Smash Mouth Co-Founding Singer, Dead at 56 – Rolling Stone

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Gary Wright - Wikipedia

[viscousmemories]

Huh, I don't remember ever hearing the name "Gary Wright", yet Dream Weaver was one of my favorite songs when it came out (making me about 7-8 yrs old).

[JoeP]

TV comedian and impersonator Mike Yarwood dies aged 82 | TV comedy | The Guardian

I assume one or two of you might be familiar with Mike Yarwood.