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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 9, 2019 20:00:07 GMT -5
Weird as I just posted a r.i.p. Kurds of my own at a different site just before coming here! It really is awful (can't say unbelievable any more, the word is worn out). I hope some of those people who helped empower the one now doing something they say they are completely against will at least have the good grace to crawl off in shame at some point. Some were loudly supporting the same guy the other day that today they are shaking their heads over.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 12, 2019 6:51:17 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 13, 2019 19:27:59 GMT -5
RIP to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human being to walk in space. Leonov's father was arrested in 1936, as an "enemy of the people," during Stalin's purges, when Alexei was 2. He would grow up to become a pilot in the Soviet Air Force and was selected to be among the first group of cosmonauts. On March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission, Leonov exited his spacecraft and moved through the void of space, for 12 minutes and 9 seconds, on a tether. His suit swelled up and he was unable to re-enter the capsule. He opened a valve and relieved pressure, allowing the suit to collapse enough to get back inside. He was selected to command Soyuz 7K-L, which was to circle the moon, but was cancelled after delays and when Apollo 8 beat them to it. He was next slated to command the LOK/N1 kunar landing, which was also cancelled. next, he was to command the Soyuz 11 mission to link up with Salyut-1, the Soviet space station. However, his crew was bumped when one member showed signs of tuberculosis. The back up crew replaced them and died in space when their capsule depressurized, while preparing for re-entry. The next Salyut mission, that Leonov was to command, was cancelled. Leonov commanded the Soyuz craft that linked up with the Apollo capsule, for the Apollo/Soyuz mission. Leonov became the Chief Cosmonaut and deputy director of the Gagarin Training Center. Leonov was an artist and took paper and colored pencils on the Apollo-Soyuz mission and sketched his fellow astronauts and cosmonauts. He produced paintings, including his Near the Moon... He developed a friendship with author Arthr C Clarke, who named the spacecraft in 2010 after him. When he saw the film, he remarked to clark how the image of the Earth sun and moon, in alignment, looked like his painting. Leonov collaborated with astronaut Dave Scott on a dual memoir of the space race, depicting it from both perspectives, titled Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race.Leonov died on Oct 11, after a long illness, at the age of 85. Regardless of politics, Leonov was a true hero, who helped take mankind into space.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2019 22:03:50 GMT -5
My Dad worked on the Apollo/Soyuz mission back in 1975 and met Leonov in Washington D.C. to figure out some engineering problems so that both can dock together. They worked together for 2 weeks and accomplished their objectives; after this mission he met him one more time again in Washington D.C. so both Apollo and Soyuz crews have a farewell briefing and my Dad got this patch for his efforts.
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2019 2:06:14 GMT -5
RIP Kim Shattuck One of my favorites. Muffs, Pandoras, even the Pixies
Probably my favourite songwriter in pop music for the last 25 years or so. I seem to be having a bit of a delayed reaction to her death - though I saw the news online soon after it happened, it was only tonight that I felt any emotional response to it: I was looking up the wikipedia page for The Muffs to see about a new album they apparently had in the works for 2019, saw "Sad Tomorrow" listed in the discography and the love I feel for their music hit me like a wave.
(editied to keep the song brianf posted that best exemplifies what I like about their sound and to add the Sad Tomorrow song I mentioned.)
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Post by brianf on Oct 16, 2019 21:45:57 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 17, 2019 6:17:21 GMT -5
Elijah Cummings Member of the House, dead at age 68.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 17, 2019 11:31:28 GMT -5
Elijah Cummings Member of the House, dead at age 68. Just saw that on the NPR site. Son of sharecroppers, who graduated from Howard University, then earned a law degree from the Univ of Maryland School of law. Practiced law for 19 years before being elected to the House, in 1996. Aslo served in the Maryland General Assembly. Also chairman of the House Oversight committee.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 17, 2019 12:09:28 GMT -5
Elijah Cummings. This one really hurts. Missed already.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 21, 2019 13:18:11 GMT -5
R. I. P. Nick Tosches. I've read a fair bit of Tosches' work. His non-fiction writing was an interesting mix of fact and opinion. I loved his bios of both Jerry Lee Lewis and Sonny Liston. His " Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock’n’Roll" was an incredibly important work that has since been made largely irrelevant by the internet. His work was also incredibly self-indulgent. I've not read his fiction, though his music reviews frequently had enough fiction to suffice.
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Post by berkley on Oct 22, 2019 3:53:25 GMT -5
The only Tosches book I ever read was his Dean Martin bio, and yeah, it was a fun read but it left me with the suspicious feeling that everything in it had made its way to me through a thick filter of the writer's mindset/persona/agenda. So I came away from it not rating the book itself, as a bio, very highly, but still very interested in reading more of Nick Tosches. For those reasons, I might be more likely to read one of his novels than his bios next.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 30, 2019 6:12:49 GMT -5
Actor John Witherspoon best known for the " Friday" movie franchises dies at age 77.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 30, 2019 11:20:39 GMT -5
Producer Robert Evans also died a few days ago. Producer of Chinatown, Marathon Man, Rosemary's Baby, Black Sunday and Urban Cowboy. Previously head of Paramount, turning around their fortunes with movies like Barefoot in the Park, The Italian Job, True Grit, Harold & Maude, The Godfather and Chinatown. Evans started out as an actor, in Man of a Thousand Faces and The Sun Also Rises.
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 7, 2019 20:59:59 GMT -5
www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/superman-christopher-dennis-dead_n_5dc3a7a6e4b03ddc02ef0319?ri18n=trueI was familiar enough with Christopher Dennis to recognize the title 'Hollywood Superman' but not familiar enough to connect him with the name Christopher Dennis. I say this because I can't honestly claim that this was an individual I had given much thought to over the years - I knew he was out and about dressed as Superman in Hollywood and was part (subject?) of a film Confessions of a Superhero - and for that reason, I've likely projected some meaning onto him which, for all I know, hits the mark perfectly or doesn't at all. It's sad when anyone dies under these circumstances, but for someone who strived to embody the ideal of a character such as Superman and dying homeless and alone in a donation bin just seems to underscore what a rough place the world can be. I can't help but think of Clayton Moore eventually took to making personal appearances as The Lone Ranger to the point where you never saw him without his mask (or without a pair of sunglasses when he was told he couldn't wear the mask). Moore really took to The Lone Ranger screed ("To have a friend one must be a friend") in a way which went far beyond simply cosplaying the role. He truly believed in it as if he just asked himself "Well, why wouldn't I adopt such a noble ideal as my own and try to live up to it?" Again, no idea if Dennis ever even gave such thought to such ideas, but, I don't know, it's tragic that someone tried to capture Superman's spirit in some small way perhaps and just got eaten up by the world.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2019 21:36:06 GMT -5
chadwilliam ... My niece that lives in Los Angeles met him once and she was felt some sympathies to him about 10-12 years ago and admired him with some balance and caring of Superman's love to that character. She wished that DC Comics comes to his aid and provide him with some support and all. That's never came 10-12 years ago and still roaming around in that costume of his. I really felt bad for him and I saw him in a distance and hurrying to meet my family at a restaurant and I wanted to meet him too and give him a few dollars of my own but couldn't not to. That's was in 2001 ... 18 years ago.
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