Tracy Tormé, writer for Sliders, Star Trek TNG, Carnivàle, and a lot of UFO shows. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tracy-torme-dead-sliders-star-trek-next-generation-1235783832/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 04:26 (eight months ago) link
Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 15:04 (eight months ago) link
I really don’t care, do u?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:03 (eight months ago) link
That's exactly what Donald said to Melania.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:04 (eight months ago) link
she was my mahjong partner, I will miss her
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:05 (eight months ago) link
jaysus the bar for the rip threads had better not be that because lads i could print the death notices of the mayo news each week here and make a case vs some of our entries
yes im gatekeeping the threshold for the rip thread what av it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:19 (eight months ago) link
fwiw i believe it’s fair game since it is technically “news” inasmuch as it relates to former president dipshit, my comment was more meant as a jest
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:02 (eight months ago) link
mine too
mainly!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:19 (eight months ago) link
RIP Terry Bisson, author most famously of Fire on the Mountain, an excellent and politically radical sci-fi novel.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:11 (eight months ago) link
That sounds pretty good; might track down a copy. I only know Bisson from his stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out Of Meat," both of which are great.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:08 (eight months ago) link
It’s pretty good, my main complaint was that I wanted it to be longer!!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 January 2024 12:31 (eight months ago) link
Tisa Farrow, one time film actress and sister of Mia (72)
― Josefa, Friday, 12 January 2024 00:45 (eight months ago) link
Ed Broadbent, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989, aged 87.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 12 January 2024 03:37 (eight months ago) link
Seemed to be about the most decent politician ever.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 January 2024 03:58 (eight months ago) link
RIP Tisa Farrow - we'll always have Zombie Flesh Eaters.
RIP Gothic horror expert David J Skalhttps://medicotopics.com/david-j-skal-historian-passed-away-car-accident/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 January 2024 10:42 (eight months ago) link
Annie Nightingale, 83 😢
― Alba, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:02 (eight months ago) link
Fuck. RIP
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Apart from her general brilliance, she DJed my book launch, and for that I’m eternally grateful. RIP.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 12 January 2024 13:28 (eight months ago) link
not sure i ever really listened to her shows tbh, but 9 year old me always thought she was dead cool for appearing on the back cover of 'zenyatta mondata' (she's part of the press group stood behind andy)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 13:45 (eight months ago) link
Used to love her post Essential Mix shows (The Chill Out Zone?) in the 90sAbsolute trailblazer and such an incredible life and career
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:48 (eight months ago) link
Aw, shame. RIP Annie.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:00 (eight months ago) link
She was on the "Celeb" panel on the final "Pop Quest 1975" that our team won through to. She chatted to us, really genuine, just like she was on the radio (although she was "just about to" start the Radio 1 request show she was best known for - in fact by the time the show aired she was well into broadcasting it, and pretended as much on the TV show which was filmed months before...)
― Mark G, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:03 (eight months ago) link
It was her Sunday evening show in the 80s that I really liked. Never listened to her much after that, but that show turned me on to a world of music I would not have been able to hear anywhere else on the dial.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:03 (eight months ago) link
She read my name out on her Sunday night show once but I'm damned if I can remember why.
― Alba, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:16 (eight months ago) link
That’s a sad one, although I never really listened much to her shows in recent decades she appeared to be keeping the flame alive until very recently - I hope I’m still able to go clubbing that late in life.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:22 (eight months ago) link
liked her sunday show a lot. also her presenting on whistle test. thought she was about 70!!
― stirmonster, Friday, 12 January 2024 17:46 (eight months ago) link
RIP Red Paden at only 67. My wife and I went to his divey blues bar in Clarksdale, Mississippi once . A great place.
Red Paden, who as the self-proclaimed “king of the juke joint runners” spent four decades as the owner of Red’s, an unassuming music spot in downtown Clarksdale, Miss., and one of the last places in the United States to offer authentic Delta blues in its natural setting, died on Dec. 30. He was 67.His son, Orlando, said the death, in a hospital in Jackson, Miss., was from complications of heart surgery.
From NY Times obit
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2024 19:20 (eight months ago) link
Still kind of reeling about Annie Nightingale - knew the Beatles but was debuting Autechre tracks in the 2010s. I read the quote in her obit about nobody in her age range apart from Peel having the same hunger for new sounds. To reclaim a cliche, what a legend.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 January 2024 20:24 (eight months ago) link
don't really know her history but just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT appearance in 79, Smash It Up and I Just Can't Be Happy Today. She took it all in stride with a sense of humor.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 January 2024 20:29 (eight months ago) link
just had a midlife crisis upon realizing that the midpoint between the Beatles forming and now is...Incunabula
― frogbs, Friday, 12 January 2024 20:29 (eight months ago) link
Oof I remember when Incunabula came out
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:08 (eight months ago) link
just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT
i'm pretty sure this was the first time i ever encountered her. also probably why I Just Can't Be Happy Today remains my favourite Damned song.
― stirmonster, Friday, 12 January 2024 23:07 (eight months ago) link
Longtime fave of mine
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:05 (eight months ago) link
Captain Sensible talks about it here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-IkuEq-8c
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:17 (eight months ago) link
Dear oh dear - that looked a bit contrived by the Damned and not very interestingly done. This could have done with a bit of Bob Harris's famous tutting.
Just dipping into the 24 hr plus Annie Nightingale Request Show playlist on Spotify. Someone has done a very good job with this , especially at the 'front end' of the list.
I wonder how many regular listeners she took with her to the 'Chil Out zone'. At the time, in 1994, the shift to the 'Chill Out Zone' felt a bit of a perplexing headlong embrace of acid, house, techno and EDM and exclusion of everything else.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 13 January 2024 09:19 (eight months ago) link
She lost me as a listener at that point, certainly.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 13 January 2024 11:51 (eight months ago) link
Tom Shales, TV critic for the Washington Post
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:12 (eight months ago) link
Forgot he'd won a Pulitzer!
Damn, he was kind of one of those weird household names
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:18 (eight months ago) link
Forgot about his SNL and ESPN books too. (Though I have to wonder what they'd look like more in recent years and with different perspectives.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:19 (eight months ago) link
Cordell Jackson, rockabilly pioneer and Moon Records founder:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/obituaries/cordell-jackson-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU0.nXVW.6ItmzCeXUNDp&smid=url-share
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:32 (eight months ago) link
Re: Shales, I think he did a good job and deserves his rest. But I do wonder how many people will have the specific job description "TV critic" in our current fractured media landscape, let alone its future.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:31 (eight months ago) link
They've been replaced by recappers
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:37 (eight months ago) link
Cordell Jackson died in 2004. (Saw her live in the mid 90s, she tore it up.)
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:05 (eight months ago) link
! very sorry. Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary. Good article, thanks to Tav Falco (and Alex Chilton) for making me aware of her long ago.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:07 (eight months ago) link
Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeld
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:18 (eight months ago) link
Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary.
As noted at the top of the article, it's part of their Overlooked series of obits for people who never received one when they died. Lots of super-interesting stories.
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:23 (eight months ago) link
Different thing but: In the olden days (by which I mean 1980), there was a whole thing where year-end magazines and newspapers were laid out and printed before the year ended.
So if you died on December 29 or thereabouts, you didn't make it into a year-in-review issue, but by the time the next year-in-review issue was being planned, your death was already old news.
Then there are the people whose deaths were overshadowed by the death of a more famous person on the same day. Cf. Sheryl Crow singing about "the day Aldous Huxley died." I am not gonna unabashedly stan for Crow's entire oeuvre, but that line has some panache.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:18 (eight months ago) link
Groucho Marx, for example. Died 2 days after Elvis.
― henry s, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:35 (eight months ago) link
Not the same day, but the Elvis death was news for a full week.
― henry s, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:36 (eight months ago) link