The Swamp

Giff wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:36 am I was going to post something about him but got caught up in other things yesterday. Many times when I go to shows, I tend to fixate on one member of the band. It's typically fairly random and it can change per band depending on the mood I'm in during that particular concert, but whenever I was lucky enough to see him play (three times, I believe - twice with CRB and once with Hard Working Americans) he was the one that caught my attention. Losing all these artists, especially in that manner, is one gut punch after another.

bfj wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:21 pm Valerie Harper

Can’t you see that long white rope?
Hangin’ from the hangman’s tree?
Take the restless horse; tie my hands, of course
Tell my mother that I’m finally free
Let me die like a man no one understands
Let me pray, let a poor man pray
Smack that horse in the ass
With my last, dyin’ gasp; my brother could hear me say,

“Gimme some water!”
‘Cause I shot a man on the Mexican border

rass wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:41 pm And sorry, I realizes I sort of betrayed the purpose of this thread.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:35 am South African Rugby Star
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/spor ... -dead.html

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:05 pm Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.

Baloney wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 7:24 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:35 am South African Rugby Star
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/spor ... -dead.html

There's a few that's passed on now from that 1995 final, hard to believe it's nearly a quarter century ago

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)

Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:05 pm Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:18 pm

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)

That put a huge smile on my face.

Sounds like Old Joe was one in a million.

Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.

During their formative years, Joe made sure that their moral fibers were enriched by both Archie Bunker and Benny Hill. When they began dating, Joe would greet their dates by first running their license plates and checking for bald tires. If their vehicle passed inspection, they were invited into the house where shotguns, harpoons and sheep "nutters" were left clearly on display.

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:15 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:18 pm

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)

That put a huge smile on my face.

Sounds like Old Joe was one in a million.

Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.

I particularly like this part:

During their formative years, Joe made sure that their moral fibers were enriched by both Archie Bunker and Benny Hill. When they began dating, Joe would greet their dates by first running their license plates and checking for bald tires. If their vehicle passed inspection, they were invited into the house where shotguns, harpoons and sheep "nutters" were left clearly on display.

Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)

On Friday morning, Mr. Heller’s body, in a coffin draped with an American flag, was placed on the 1941 Mack fire truck he helped restore and taken to Centerbrook Cemetery to be buried next to his wife, Irene, who died in 2015, and whom he embarrassed daily “with his mouth and choice of clothing,” according to the obituary.

Family members followed the fire truck in Mr. Heller’s immaculately restored 1932 Plymouth roadster with, as per his request, a set of plastic testicles dangling from the rear bumper.

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:59 pm Jerry got his lyricist back.

Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat who undermined President George W. Bush’s claim in 2003 that Iraq had been attempting to to build nuclear weapons, leading to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a C.I.A. agent, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 69.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:46 pm Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69

Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat who undermined President George W. Bush’s claim in 2003 that Iraq had been attempting to to build nuclear weapons, leading to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a C.I.A. agent, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 69.