Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

shit, his way with that run was inspiring.

xxm Thanks for that post DJP that is amazing

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!

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.

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.

Bob Edwards (he of the soothing NPR voice)

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.

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.

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

From Chicago. Just beautiful.

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

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

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

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

Steve Wright, 69

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

!

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.

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

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

same

Wow @ Steve Wright

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

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.

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)

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

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

There's a Steven Wright bit in there somewhere.

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

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?

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

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

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

;_;

rip mr tart

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

poor person's hot pockets

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

alexei navalny, supposedly

Least surprising death this year sadly.

Dexter Romweber of Flat Duo Jets.

o shit

(Central/SoCal-specific obit)
Ernesteen McConnell, who cofounded McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams with her husband Gordon, has died at age 104, the company announced.
In a post on Instagram, the chain of ice cream spots described “Ernie” as “a pistol.”
“Sharp, spirited and energetic, she was a woman of boundless energy, positivity and generosity of spirit,” the post says.
McConnell, who was approaching her 105th birthday later this month, helped found the store in 1950 after she and her husband moved to Santa Barbara.
Since then, McConnell’s ice creams, which the company notes are “made from scratch,” are sold at eight scoop shops in Southern California and the Central Coast, as well as in grocery stores.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/socal-ice-cream-pioneer-dies-at-104/

sending thoughts & prayers to Babs - McConnell’s coffee icecream is her favorite

McConnell's Turkish Coffee ice cream is perfect. Of course it looks like coffee ice cream with an ash try full of espresso grind mixed in, but it is still a perfect ice cream.

longtime college basketball coach (most notably at maryland) lefty driesell, 92

Andreas Brehme, a Germany legend who scored the winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, has died.

Rest in peace, Andreas. pic.twitter.com/3EAscikK9X

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 20, 2024

RIP

Not quite on Brehme's level but a fascinating story:

https://x.com/TomLinesEtc/status/1759899259183243399

Apparently David Irving. No loss there.

hes come out and denied it

Ewen Macintosh (Keith from The Office)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/21/the-office-actor-ewen-macintosh-dies-aged-50

My God, only 50.