Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Ed Piskor, of Cartoonist Kayfabe and Hip-Hop Family Trees, recently accused of grooming a minor. Suicide.

Holy s--! I watched Kayfabe weekly. Terrible on all accounts.

former nfl pro bowler vontae davis, 35
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39853679/ex-nfl-cb-vontae-davis-found-dead-age-35

xxp

ugh, that sucks for a whole range of reasons

oh damn, remember him on the Colts and Bills, he was the guy who famously retired at halftime right? that was so odd

yeah that was him. great player for a minute

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/casey-benjamin-saxophonist-robert-glasper-dies-46/

Casey Benjamin, sax player in Robert Glasper’s band . He also did studio and live work with many others

Ultravox bassist Chris Cross

https://retropopmagazine.com/ultravox-star-chris-cross-dies-aged-71/

Hearing Joe Flaherty, unconfirmed.

shit

i hope not yet

We’ve lost another of my idols. RIP Joe Flaherty
1941-2024 pic.twitter.com/bcVtfaAiPG

— Joel Murray (@JoelMurray9of9) April 2, 2024

Aw, man.

Trevor Griffiths, playwright, 88.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/trevor-griffiths-mancunian-marxist-whose-political-plays-deserve-revival

RIP. He skewered the likes of Gervais when they still the old thing, not the new thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHFDVM4k_4

RIP Legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6_uL3Az8w

Posted my favourite Count Floyd on FB, the Bergman clip--for the Bergman parody, but most of all for Flaherty breaking character when he starts barking at the crew, trying to figure out who booked the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrNLm9nR3A

Aw man, RIP Joe. when is Scorsese's SCTV doc going to come out?????

loved flaherty as sam and lindsay weir's dad in freaks and geeks - funny but also warm

I didn't know there was a Count Floyd vinyl record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtMb6VIC8w

Scorsese stretches himself thin and continues to sit on that SCTV doc.

"All that senseless violence, what does it prove?!?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CaBy0733Y

John Sinclair too, apparently.

Yeah, obit here. One for the "I thought he died years ago" file.

Oh no! I smoked a crazy big doobie with John Sinclair once, at a friend's wedding.... I have an autographed copy of Guitar Army that reads: 'For Andy - Kick out the Jams, Motherfucker!' 7/29/96

I'll bet he wrote that many times over the years, and relished every single one.

So did Joe Flaherty.

Aw man, RIP Joe. when is Scorsese's SCTV doc going to come out?????

on pause due to marty's heavy schedule last I heard

Anyway, RIP Guy Caballero, Floyd Robertson etc.

Has thiis one been posted yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU

Ironic, because...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBx0P0zOqA

Scorcese's doc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Afternoon_with_SCTV

Bummed to hear about Sinclair. I met him several times when Bomp/Total Energy was releasing those MC5 tapes in the mid 90s. Hilarious beatnik Santa Claus - I wish I got my copy of Guitar Army signed.

Bummed about both, almost missed the news about Sinclair since my social media feeds have been overwhelmed with (justified!) outpourings of love for Flaherty.

Both 82.

RIP Count Floyd :((

So Scary! Ah-ooo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YV5a3_2AXU

John Barth

Just saw that

Maybe I should finally finish one of his books

John Barth was alive recently! who knew?

Me.

john barth, 91
Now 93.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, December 15, 2023 3:05 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe I should finally finish one of his books

I actually took this news as the final message not to feel bad about barely starting Giles Goat-Boy despite carrying it around for months at one point.

I saw Barth on a panel with a few other novelists, and someone asked him something snarky and he responded calling it a "shitful comment."

Outlived Barthelme, Elkin, Gass...Coover still among us at 92! And Pynchon's around, of course, at 86.

Another novelist of note has passed: Maryse Condé

Barth was part of that Donald Barthelme school of male writing that I skimmed in college but to which I never gave a second look other than The End of the Road.