Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Joe Kinnear

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/07/joe-kinnear-former-tottenham-player-and-wimbledon-manager-dies-aged-77

first of all, which of you is judas?

is judas here?

when he was managing Luton his nickname was JFK because of his profuse effwording iirc

On 2 October 2008, Kinnear launched a verbal tirade at the Daily Mirror journalist Simon Bird, calling him a "cunt". He swore over 50 times in the first five minutes of the interview

got to admit I always had soft spot for Joe

Firehouse lead singer CJ Snare
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/c-j-snare-firehouse-dead/

.. i may be culpable in this somehow for shitalking them on the glam metal thread

he finally found the love of a lifetime

Whoa coincidence

Clarence “Frogman” Henry, the New Orleans musician whose signature croak helped him score a memorable Fifties novelty hit, “Ain’t Got No Home,” died Sunday, April 7. He was 87.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clarence-frogman-henry-aint-got-no-home-dead-1235000874/

Other than Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Frogman was pretty much the last of the 50s NO R&B performers.

wow, had no idea he was still around.

RIP.

Irma Thomas (first single 1959) is still kicking, as is Aaron Neville (first single 1960). But yeah, almost all of the wacky '50s NOLA Rock'n'Soul dudes are gone now.

RIP

Peter Higgs, who has a subatomic particle named after him

well at least having a sub-atomic particle named after him should provide his loved ones with a quantum of solace

bdum and tish

Patti Astor, nyc no wave scene maker Fun gallery owner no wave cinema actress etc.

Hmm, didn't know all this about Ed Piskor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/arts/ed-piskor-dies-comics-hip-hop-family-tree.html

Yeah more than a few of the encomia over the past few days are a bit...I don't want to say tone-deaf, but.

I mean obviously it's sad he apparently took his own life. But seems like a bad situation all around. (I did like his work! At least the selections I've read from the Hip-Hop Family Tree.)

I don't envy anyone having to write his obituary tbh. There's actual grieving friends and family, there's his victims, there's the fact that the suicide letter was an explicit attack on said victims.

Patti Astor, nyc no wave scene maker Fun gallery owner no wave cinema actress etc.

Geez, I was at a movie Monday night in which she's interviewed a few times: Make Me Famous, a documentary on Edward Brezinski.

Goddard College

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/progressive-vermont-college-to-close-after-facing-insolvency

gotta love this headline:

Phish Members’ Alma Mater in Vermont to Shut

Should just rebrand as a Phish museum or something and pull in cash.

RIP Trina Robbins: https://www.comicsbeat.com/feminist-cartoonist-historian-and-activist-trina-robbins-has-died/

RIP Trina. A titan

^^^

OJ Simpson
https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-dead-dies-cancer/

see you in hell

rip oj simpson

RIP takes on a different meaning with that guy

rest in piss

I mean, obviously his whole saga is more complex than that - that epic documentary series from a few years back nailed how his story touched upon so many ruptures of injustice in America, how flawed a man he was even though he was celebrated as an exemplar. But definitely fuck this guy.

Here's hoping TV runs a "Naked Gun" movie in tribute.

ok seeing cancer

i was wondering whether it wasnt a stretcher falls down multiple sets of steps before catapulting into a burning building accident

lol

Or a low speed car crash.

Robert MacNeil

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/robert-macneil-dead-newshour/

Weirdly, MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were both present at JFK's assassination

Oh so that's the conspiracy

They keep knocking off witnesses don’t they

I heard an interview with Lehrer years ago, and while he doesn't necessarily believe in conspiracy theories, he said he heard a shot coming from the grassy hill.. he conceded that it may have been a trick of acoustics, but he remembered turning to look in that direction

Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer.

Worlds oldest conjoined twins George and Lori Schappell

hopefully both of them

yes, both of them.

i know nothing about them at all but i hope they had a happy life

Quite an eventful life, sounds pretty good - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_and_George_Schappell