Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

June Leaf, artist and wife of Robert Frank

Tom Fowler, bassist for Frank Zappa 1973-75, age 73

Oh no, he was an excellent bassist

Norwegian pro cyclist André Drege, 25, during a descent at the Tour of Austria

https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/andre-drege-25-tragically-dies-in-crash-at-the-2024-tour-of-austria

Pino d'Angio

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

I only know that song but what a song. RIP

this was also him, with Bruno Sanchioni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YouzAWfAuo

(most well known version is the Jam & Spoon mix from 1992)

(what the - there's a saxophone in the outro!? I don't think I ever heard the original version before)

Jon Landau, Oscar-Winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ Producer, Dies at 63

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jon-landau-dead-avatar-titanic-producer-1236061781/

RIP Joe Egan, the other singer and songwriter in Stealers Wheel.

https://youtube/tezLtCKPKV4?si=AorFcnFv5aSgi8bn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezLtCKPKV4

Poet Stanley Moss, 99.

Even after he was noticed, it was a struggle. At 52, he founded a poetry publishing company in New York. It barely covered his expenses.

But by then, an old connection had come to his rescue. In 1969, he befriended the heirs of an Italian nobleman who after his death had left a trove of Spanish and Italian old master paintings. Starting as an agent for the nobleman’s heirs, he began selling art to the Louvre, the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty and other major museums. As a result, he became prosperous enough to finance his life as a poet.

Jazz trumpeter Jim Rotondi. His latest album, recorded with an orchestra in 2021, came out back in February:

https://jimrotondimusic.bandcamp.com/album/finesse

Pio D'Angio, 71

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

Pino, that is

Honoured upthread

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Poet Stanley Moss, 99🕸.

your display name certainly validates you as a poetry expert ;)

joking aside, I’ve not heard of him either and I’ve read/heard a lot of modern poetry

lads we cant start enforcing a bar of "nobody has ever heard of them" on the rip thread now

No

former oklahoma senator james inhofe, noted denier of both climate change and poetry, 89

So long, Inhofe

xpost Not that getting published reflects a legacy, but Moss had 17 poems in The New Yorker 1968-2019 and at least 32 in Poetry. And being born in 1925, he's probably one of the very last poets of that generation (so many of the heavy hitters born '27-'29).

RIP Tortured Poets

More like Pampered Poets

orchard poets

Pampered Postwar Poets Society

oh, so he’s one of those poets, thankfully dying off, that APR and other publications love— one who rejects modernism and any sort of difficulty or experiment in favor of a legible, autobiographical style that could easily be prose. no wonder i haven’t heard of him, this stuff is sub-Kooser crap

As a poet, he was a pretty good art dealer.

amazing

now lets critique his de-compositions

The attitude of "I don't like this kind of writing, so I'm happy when the people who do it die" is fucking weird and vile

(99yo actor dies) i have never seen a single performance of this guy’s in any movie or play, and I’ve seen and own quite a few

(he appeared in several hollywood films) oh, so he’s one of those actors, thankfully dying off. no wonder i haven’t heard of him

incredible stuff, thanks for this masterclass in pretension and insecurity

I like Tables’ strong poetry opinions probably because I don’t know who the people are.

Well they didn't commit genocide or anything as far as I know

pretension, sure. insecurity? what about having an opinion on something do you all dislike so much?

i tend to not give much to poetry or poets i dislike, especially when they seem a part of the post-war trend toward the ennobled individual just telling their American story as plainly as possible. this CIA-endorsed pablum is not to my liking! it’s boring!

tho Keyes, you do have a point, so i will say that I am glad he lived a long life and has many apparent fans in his wake. may light guide his transition—

and i write that in complete sincerity. i just don’t like his poems!

you jumped into the obit thread to shit on a guy you'd never heard of and whose work you'd never read. who does that?! why aren't you popping in to slag dead british footballers? when other authors die does, say, dr3w dan1el show up and say 'never read him; glad he's dead'?

oh, it's because you need to be seen as ILX's Special Poetry Boy, so you have to weigh in whether you know anything about it or not. even a *normal* Special Poetry Boy might have said 'never heard of him, checked a few things out, not my kind of thing.' or simply said nothing at all! but you so desperately need to be cutting-edge that you'll bury anything too 'popular' sight unseen.

grow up dude

Getting a bunch of people to want to write like Flannery O'Connor was probably the CIA's most successful op

lol wait til spurs players from the jol era start dying tbf im gonna get banned banned banned

Please bring back "jol out" when he dies

ah i love the big man really

wheres that thread where it turns out to be robinson that i blamed it all on

you jumped into the obit thread to shit on a guy _you'd never heard of_ and _whose work you'd never read_. who does that?! why aren't you popping in to slag dead british footballers? when other authors die does, say, dr3w dan1el show up and say 'never read him; glad he's dead'?

oh, it's because you need to be seen as ILX's Special Poetry Boy, so you have to weigh in whether you know anything about it or not. even a *normal* Special Poetry Boy might have said 'never heard of him, checked a few things out, not my kind of thing.' or simply said nothing at all! but you so desperately need to be cutting-edge that you'll bury anything too 'popular' sight unseen.

grow up dude

Comic artist/illustrator Michael Zulli, 71
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/michael-zulli-of-puma-blues-swamp-thing-and-sandman-has-died-aged-71/

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53849191209_647cc09ecc_h.jpg

The Puma Blues is one of my all-time faves. I picked this up from him at the 1987 San Diego Comic Con and it's been on my wall ever since. I understand he had been in poor health in recent years.

Longer obit w/more art
https://www.cbr.com/michael-zulli-iconic-sandman-artist-obituary/

Oh fuck. Puma Blues was HUGE for me. I had the t shirt. The minicomics. Met him at a convention. He had the original art for the cancelled Swamp Thing issue. If you don’t know the story, Rick Veitch’s run had Swanp Thing traveling through time (after Alan Moore had him traveling through space) and Zulli drew the issue where he was going to appear at the crucification of Jesus. DC pulled the plug on the issue and Veitch quit. At the convention I said “wow, so this is the non-issue” too which Zulli replied “actually it was quite a big issue”. I then paid him ten bucks to get an original drawing, flying manta of course. Had it for a few weeks then my mom took it to get framed in the city and it was stolen out of the trunk of her car with some luggage. Broke my heart.

I need to reread, I got the collected book a few years ago but haven’t read them all since the comic was new. He was a great artist.

RIP i remember that art from Sandman

RIP to a great one ;_;

His three issues of TMNT are just eye-boggling

https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/michael-zulli-ninja-turtles007.jpg

https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/puma-blues-art-by-michael-zulli-007.jpg