RIP Harry Anderson. He was one of my favorite actors.
I was *literally* just thinking about that as I listened to the last episode the other day. I started with "I wonder why they stopped offering his voice as the prize" and then, sadly, my mind did drift to "I hope he's just enjoying a relaxing retirement". But then I started thinking about how little effort it takes to record a greeting, and my mind went down a darker path. Sad to see that theory confirmed. With all due respect to Bill Kurtis, there was just something special about WWDTM when Carl was the host.
Carl's final show can still be heard here. I think I may give it a listen tonight.
First Lady Barbara Bush at 92: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/u...imes&smtyp=cur
There is no cure for congestive heart failure, they just make you really miserable trying to keep you alive; there is more peace in passing than the suffering in trying to stay alive. Godspeed, she was a really tough lady. The photo of her holding a baby with HIV in the late-80s was groundbreaking. RIP, Mrs. Bush. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/e...will-endure-us
Carl Kasell, wow. Wow.
Last edited by allegro; 04-17-2018 at 10:04 PM.
Avicii has passed.
https://t.co/nZD4qK4mPY
wtf?
RIP Avicii. Beautiful man.
Re: Avicii, it sounds like he might have just drank himself to death. The health issues he was having were chronic pancreatitis and having organs removed due to trouble associated with it. One of my dear friends just died this way at like 34.
RIP Verne Troyer.
You were the bomb as Mini-Me!
After missing for a few days....
RIP Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison.
Last edited by october_midnight; 05-11-2018 at 07:57 AM.
i don't know why his death has gotten under my skin like this. i'd never heard his music until now. his tweets are so haunting and still there. so weird. someone so talented, so admired, so successful, and really fucking attractive ... the demons still won. it's too much.
mental illness needs to be put out there with cancer. it can't be a silent killer anymore. this is madness.
Last edited by kel; 05-12-2018 at 01:46 PM.
I listened to their second album (“The Midnight Organ Fight”) on repeat for many months; saw them live at Lollapalooza in 2010; Scott was a truly gifted songwriter, this is truly a loss.
Last edited by allegro; 05-13-2018 at 05:41 PM.
Glenn Branca at 69: https://pitchfork.com/news/glenn-branca-dead-at-69/
Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, and The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test has died.
Philip Roth at age 85: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/o...mid=tw-nytimes
TotalBiscuit has died.
https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/999785407087808512
Just saw that. RIP TotalBiscuit. Cancer can, as always, kiss the fattest part of my narrow white ass.
Total Biscuit
I really, really loved that guy.
One of my childhood heroes, Dwight Clark, died today from ALS. I got a chance to meet him and he was very kind to me. I appreciate the memories. RIP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...tch/671400002/