Weirdly, MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were both present at JFK's assassination
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:22 (five months ago) link
Oh so that's the conspiracy
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:31 (five months ago) link
They keep knocking off witnesses don’t they
― Josefa, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:34 (five months ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 April 2024 18:18 (five months ago) link
Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 12 April 2024 20:47 (five months ago) link
Worlds oldest conjoined twins George and Lori Schappell
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 20:50 (five months ago) link
hopefully both of them
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 20:53 (five months ago) link
yes, both of them.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:06 (five months ago) link
i know nothing about them at all but i hope they had a happy life
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:16 (five months ago) link
Quite an eventful life, sounds pretty good - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_and_George_Schappell
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:17 (five months ago) link
my gosh, glad they made the most of the tough hand they were dealt
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:22 (five months ago) link
Eleanor Coppola, 87. My Blu-Ray set of Apocalypse Now includes Hearts of Darkness as a bonus disc.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 12 April 2024 23:50 (five months ago) link
Mister Ceehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/music/mister-cee-dj-dead.html
― donna rouge, Saturday, 13 April 2024 05:54 (five months ago) link
I'm not sure Hearts Of Darkness isn't a better movie than Apocalypse Now
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Saturday, 13 April 2024 07:20 (five months ago) link
Makes a great double feature with Burden of Dreams.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 April 2024 11:36 (five months ago) link
rico wade of organized noize and the dungeon family, 52
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:21 (five months ago) link
A lot about Eleanor Coppola in Sam Wesson's Coppola book.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:24 (five months ago) link
Wasson...
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:25 (five months ago) link
this is a good tribute. i want to give a shout-out to the companion book to The Story of English series that PBS/MacNeil did in 1986. that book taught me a lot. even if i have forgotten it all now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LKupNgYU4M
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:12 (five months ago) link
i love that Jim Lehrer famously never voted in his time doing the news. so that he could stay impartial.
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:13 (five months ago) link
Journalists not voting to remain impartial is seriously old school - it used to be common amongst Golden Age anchor/news people.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 13 April 2024 17:18 (five months ago) link
Faith Ringgoldhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/arts/faith-ringgold-dead.html?smid=url-share
― donna rouge, Saturday, 13 April 2024 22:52 (five months ago) link
Deadly Derek dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/15/derek-underwood-outstanding-england-cricket-spinner-dies-aged-78
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:48 (five months ago) link
The not-voting thing seems especially dumb these days. This quote from Peter Baker of the NYT (from 2020) sounds like someone trying to contort himself into never feeling empathy."I try hard not to take strong positions on public issues even in private, much to the frustration of friends and family. For me, it’s easier to stay out of the fray if I never make up my mind, even in the privacy of the kitchen or the voting booth, that one candidate is better than another, that one side is right and the other wrong."
― jaymc, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:11 (five months ago) link
I've got a lawyer friend who iirc didn't vote while she worked for a series of federal judges, and only resumed voting when she took a teaching job in the private sector.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:18 (five months ago) link
Crank psychiatrist and 'satanic panic'/repressed memory promoter Bennett Braun, truly one of the worst people pushing all that garbage at its height, and easily culpable for a lot of lingering damage on a wide number of fronts. An ice-cold obituary in that clearly nobody had a good word for him at the end, it seems. Even the final lines show he was still rotten:
After temporarily losing his medical license in Illinois, Dr. Braun moved to Montana, where he received a new state license and opened a private practice.But in 2019, one of his patients, Ciara Rehbein, sued him for overprescribing medication that left her with a permanent facial tic. She also filed a complaint against the Montana Board of Medical Examiners for allowing him a license, despite knowing his past.Dr. Braun lost his license to practice medicine in Montana in 2020.
But in 2019, one of his patients, Ciara Rehbein, sued him for overprescribing medication that left her with a permanent facial tic. She also filed a complaint against the Montana Board of Medical Examiners for allowing him a license, despite knowing his past.
Dr. Braun lost his license to practice medicine in Montana in 2020.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:58 (five months ago) link
wow, the details there, just evil.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:38 (five months ago) link
truly a grade A creep
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:49 (five months ago) link
Deadly Derek dead.https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/15/derek-underwood-outstanding-england-cricket-spinner-dies-aged-78― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, April 15, 2024 1:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, April 15, 2024 1:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
was sad to learn he was on the first "rebel" tour to Apartheid South Africa
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 10:56 (five months ago) link
Yes but then I don't exactly associate cricketers with progressive politics.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 11:38 (five months ago) link
Graeme Naysmith of Pale Saints
Some very sad news here to report, the passing of Graeme Naysmith of Pale Saints. Thoughts with his family and friends. 🙏 Image taken from FB. pic.twitter.com/hRRFN6vwsD— Andrea (@parramaterial) April 16, 2024
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:36 (five months ago) link
Yeah, just rotten to see that. What a sound he had.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:48 (five months ago) link
Oh no, that’s shocking. I’ll be giving Comforts of Madness a good kicking today, one of my favourite guitar albums of all time.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:14 (five months ago) link
Bob Graham:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/former-us-senator-and-florida-governor-bob-graham-dead-at-87/
One of those guys I remember as being on CNN constantly during the Clinton presidency.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:55 (five months ago) link
He was the obsessive diarist, right?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:58 (five months ago) link
"He kept a meticulous diary, noting almost everyone he spoke with, everything he ate, the TV shows he watched and even his golf scores."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:03 (five months ago) link
Minus the golf scores, he was Andy Warhol.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:04 (five months ago) link
he was no william lyon mackenzie king
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:07 (five months ago) link
Florida politics seemed so relatively normal back during his governorship
― Josefa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:07 (five months ago) link
Yep -- and for a while the only truly bipartisan figure we ever had.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:03 (five months ago) link
The political media's obsession with the diary keeping during the Iraq War was Example #4518 of why we're doomed.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:31 (five months ago) link
James Dean, Founding Director of NASA Art Program, 92https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/science/space/james-dean-dead.html
James Dean, a landscape painter who ran a NASA program that invited artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell and Jamie Wyeth to document aspects of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, died on March 22 in Washington. He was 92.His son Steven confirmed the death, at an assisted living facility.From the final Mercury mission in 1963 until 1974, Mr. Dean gave dozens of artists access to astronauts, to areas near the launchpads at Cape Canaveral (and the Kennedy Space Center) and to ships that recovered astronauts after their ocean splashdowns.Mr. Dean believed that artists offered a perspective that could not be found in photographs.
His son Steven confirmed the death, at an assisted living facility.
From the final Mercury mission in 1963 until 1974, Mr. Dean gave dozens of artists access to astronauts, to areas near the launchpads at Cape Canaveral (and the Kennedy Space Center) and to ships that recovered astronauts after their ocean splashdowns.
Mr. Dean believed that artists offered a perspective that could not be found in photographs.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:23 (five months ago) link
Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:00 (five months ago) link
Damn, well that just leaves Jaimoep
― omar little, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:02 (five months ago) link
*Jaimoe
― omar little, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:03 (five months ago) link
Steve Kille, bass player in DC stoner titans Dead Meadow.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:31 (five months ago) link
Woooooah
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 19 April 2024 05:53 (five months ago) link
Oh no! awful news
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 08:11 (five months ago) link
Daniel Dennett 1942-2024
In Memoriam: Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) https://t.co/I2vx8ZgW9Y— Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter (@BrianLeiter) April 19, 2024
― Alba, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:37 (five months ago) link
Cartoonist Pete Loveday, creator of Russell, kinda like a British festy version of Gilbert Shelton
― Maresn3st, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:41 (five months ago) link