‘Back in the 1960s, when I was studying to become a Sufi saint in North Africa, my Sheikh told me to read the Koran.’Robert Irwin has died age 77. He wrote seventeen pieces for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, including this, on translating the Koran:https://t.co/XdgtrhQVit— London Review of Books (@LRB) July 1, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 July 2024 15:04 (two days ago) link
United States, 248 years old
― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 July 2024 15:17 (two days ago) link
Oh please. The US died when Obama wore a tan suit.
― Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 1 July 2024 15:36 (two days ago) link
time to re-read some Robert Irwin and check out Ismail Kadare i guess :(
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 July 2024 16:35 (two days ago) link
I'm seeing second hand on facebook that Laurie Lindeen of Zuzu's Petals (and Paul Westerberg's ex-wife) has died from a brain aneurysm.
― nickn, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:11 (yesterday) link
Yeah, I saw that posted by someone who knew her. R.I.P.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:13 (yesterday) link
Robert Towne
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:41 (yesterday) link
Poor guy probably died due to the explicit Jake Gillis homage by Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 22:57 (yesterday) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1kK8gsag4
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 00:13 (twenty-two hours ago) link
Wow. Towne was almost as central to American film in the '70s as the big-name directors; going by Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye, Chinatown was as much or even more his as it was Polanski's.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 02:42 (nineteen hours ago) link
Texas Music Writer & Historian Michael Corcoran
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-07-02/michael-corcoran-has-died-and-austins-lost-a-voice-that-always-kept-things-interesting/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 03:47 (eighteen hours ago) link
June Leaf, artist and wife of Robert Frank
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 05:06 (seventeen hours ago) link