Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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rip

Great post djp

nxd, Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:31 (one year ago)

Thanks for sharing, really appreciated reading that.

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:39 (one year ago)

Yeah, that sounds like an amazing experience.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:48 (one year ago)

Awesome!

Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:06 (one year ago)

incredible! thx for sharing djp

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:15 (one year ago)

That's a beautiful remembrance

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:23 (one year ago)

such a cool obit

ꙮ (map), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:27 (one year ago)

this is just blindingly awesome imo

He always asked the chorus to memorize the score as well, so we would have a stronger connection to him and be able to respond immediately to whatever gestures or adjustments he would add to the live performance. This was initially nerve-wracking to me but as I got used to the environment, I noticed that his physicality was very much matched to the score, to the point where you could tell where you were in the piece by how Seiji was dancing. In some performances it felt like he had transformed himself into a living score, making his body express where we were and prepping the runway for our entrances so they were never a surprise, even though he almost never did the “your part comes in NOW” death stare common to many conductors across all performance levels.

ꙮ (map), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:30 (one year ago)

Thank you so much djp. Really.

This is a whole lot to ask, but I’m in a private classical music Google group where we have been discussing Ozawa’s legacy, would you mind if I quote your paragraph re the memorizing and internalizing to my friends there

realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 11 February 2024 21:15 (one year ago)

That's really great to read, DJP.

Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:31 (one year ago)

There is a picture at my in-laws' home of Ozawa holding my daughter when she was a toddler. Seemed like an amazing person from the personal stories I've heard.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:46 (one year ago)

That’s fine, JnJ

the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 12 February 2024 00:30 (one year ago)

https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2024/0211/1431745-shock-as-kelvin-kiptum-dies-in-road-accident/

fuck

close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2024 00:48 (one year ago)

Ah damn that's awful. My dad will be really sad to hear this.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2024 00:57 (one year ago)

shit, his way with that run was inspiring.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 01:21 (one year ago)

xxm Thanks for that post DJP that is amazing

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 12 February 2024 01:22 (one year ago)

Kiptum dying is terrible. Just 4 months ago I was watching him run by me on his way to setting a WR. Only his third marathon!

Jeff, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:11 (one year ago)

Yeah, so incredibly sad. Kiptum was only 24. He was on the cusp of breaking the human barriers of what was thought to be impossible. Most running fans believed he would run an official sub 2 hour marathon this year. His training plans were mind boggling (180 miles a week?!) and his race speed intimidating. Could have been bigger than Bolt or Kipchoge.

Michael F Gill, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:24 (one year ago)

Seriously, due to his inexperience running marathons I don't think even he knew what he was fully capable of. Iirc, after winning in Chicago he admitted he ran it relatively conservatively, and that he had plenty of gas left in the tank.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:37 (one year ago)

Bob Edwards (he of the soothing NPR voice)

Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 February 2024 16:21 (one year ago)

Kiptum vs Kipchoge at the Paris Olympics could have been the greatest head to head battle in marathon history: one going for a third straight gold, the other being the only real threat to the crown in the last 5-8 years. Only one other runner has gone under 2:03 since 2020.

Michael F Gill, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:24 (one year ago)

i just ran 5.5 miles in about 45 min and thought that was pretty good, i'll never understand some of those marathon numbers.

omar little, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:55 (one year ago)

Yeah that pace is insane, basically 4 1/2-minute miles for 26 miles. Seems almost impossible.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:00 (one year ago)

From Chicago. Just beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqpx1aJXgZQ

Jeff, Monday, 12 February 2024 17:16 (one year ago)

In my 20s I worked the overnight at NPR and wrote intros for Bob Edwards. He had a very specific wry way of delivering a funny line. Masterful. So fun to write, imagining it in his voice and then he'd nail it every time. Raising a bourbon to you today,Bob. https://t.co/xVySb6eGVq

— Ira Glass (@iraglass) February 12, 2024

paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:42 (one year ago)

If I’m doing a long cycle ride I’m happy to do 13 miles an hour.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 12 February 2024 18:50 (one year ago)

Did we mention another former Wailer, guitarist Donald Kinsey, also of Peter Tosh's band and the Kinsey Report?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 22:18 (one year ago)

Steve Wright, 69

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68287707

Alba, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:07 (one year ago)

!

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:10 (one year ago)

Last time I heard him I was station-surfing in the car and he was playing Friday I'm In Love, it was about 2pm on a Tuesday.

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:11 (one year ago)

oh no who will 80s boomers complain about the BBC to now?

wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:13 (one year ago)

Shit, for a second I thought it was Steven Wright.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:25 (one year ago)

same

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:26 (one year ago)

Wow @ Steve Wright

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:37 (one year ago)

Oh wow, one of the big names of British radio.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:42 (one year ago)

Literally only announced last week as the big name on the new radio 2 offshoot station.

Every year without fail I was still surprised at him making the top 10 BBC employee salary list, and how much it was.

Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:46 (one year ago)

every(*) time i call home the call always starts with "Hello, boy, can you hear me?" which is from his 80s show, one of his characters. i am that old.

(* not quite)

koogs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:18 (one year ago)

RIP. Wonder who will now inherit all the miniature golf pencil erasers in the world.

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:35 (one year ago)

Oh okay I see, sorry to kill off the RONG DUDE prematurely.

The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:36 (one year ago)

There's a Steven Wright bit in there somewhere.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:48 (one year ago)

I did a couple of his shows when he was our local DJ along with Mike Read (they were a double-act)

Mark G, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:21 (one year ago)

I thought it was the comedian too, though I admit I was half surprised to find out he was still alive...he hasn't done much lately has he?

frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:23 (one year ago)

Steven Wright the comic just put out a novel: http://www.stevenwright.com/

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:26 (one year ago)

“I read that Steven Wright died so I erased the n”

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:54 (one year ago)

William Post, the inventor of Pop-Tarts.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/02/grand-rapids-man-inventor-of-pop-tarts-dies-at-96.html

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 05:15 (one year ago)

;_;

rip mr tart

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 06:53 (one year ago)

holy fuck they’re a grand rapids invention?
i didn’t know that. i have a michigan connection to them, oddly enough

when i was in yr 12 at high school i did an exchange & stayed w a family in walker, mi.
for 10 days & went to school etc. while i was there i discovered pop tarts & ate them every morning for breakfast.
the following year when i went to uni a huge box showed up at my dorm — my host mom in michigan had sent me a box full of cartons of strawberry pop tarts. like 50 boxes!

i lived on those things for my first year
i loved them

cannot eat them now lol

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 07:06 (one year ago)

poor person's hot pockets

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 07:09 (one year ago)

Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden RPG series & its upcoming spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:51 (one year ago)

alexei navalny, supposedly

mookieproof, Friday, 16 February 2024 11:41 (one year ago)


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