The Swamp

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 9:24 pm Hal Ketchum. Bad year for country singers.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:31 am All-time post right there.

brian wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:47 am Tony Hsieh. Founder of Zappos and a legendary figure in Las Vegas for spending close to a half billion to revitalize downtown Las Vegas. Used to see him around everywhere downtown and think about how crazy it is to be standing at the bar next to a billionaire.

bfj wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:21 am David Prowse

The guy inside the Darth Vader costume.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:45 pm

bfj wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:21 am David Prowse

The guy inside the Darth Vader costume.

And the big caretaker dude in Clockwork Orange.

Baloney wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:56 am 900 ton Observation Platform at the Arecibo Radio telescope collapsed

Sabo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:07 am

Baloney wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:56 am 900 ton Observation Platform at the Arecibo Radio telescope collapsed

I bet that made a hell of a noise when it landed.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:08 am

Sabo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:07 am

Baloney wrote: ↑Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:56 am 900 ton Observation Platform at the Arecibo Radio telescope collapsed

I bet that made a hell of a noise when it landed.

Not if no one was around.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:45 am

brian wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:47 am Tony Hsieh. Founder of Zappos and a legendary figure in Las Vegas for spending close to a half billion to revitalize downtown Las Vegas. Used to see him around everywhere downtown and think about how crazy it is to be standing at the bar next to a billionaire.

Super impressive business leader. Read a bunch about his work in the vegas community and ideas at zappos.

Sounds like he died from injuries due to a fire.

In August, shortly after Tony Hsieh, the legendary entrepreneur behind Zappos, moved to Park City, Utah, he eagerly awaited a visitor: the singer Jewel. The longtime friends originally met the way fellow rock stars should, on Richard Branson’s Necker Island, and Hsieh, who had been buying up properties around the mountain town, was planning to spend the next week showing her around.

Soon after arriving, Jewel played a private acoustic set for around 50 residents of the community Hsieh was building there—a reprise of sorts of the city-within-a-city of artists and entrepreneurs that Hsieh had famously created in downtown Las Vegas. It should have been a magical moment, according to a person who was there, with the Grammy nominee seated in front of a fireplace and views of the Wasatch Mountains framing the performance.

But within a day, Jewel abruptly left. Shortly after, the singer sent Hsieh a letter via FedEx, since he had forsworn email and texts as part of a digital cleanse.

“I am going to be blunt,” she wrote in the letter, the content of which was shared with Forbes. “I need to tell you that I don’t think you are well and in your right mind. I think you are taking too many drugs that cause you to disassociate.”

She continued: “The people you are surrounding yourself with are either ignorant or willing to be complicit in you killing yourself.”

brian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:12 pm Not gonna pretend like I knew him, but I knew some people who did and that puts a lot of the pieces of puzzle together for me.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:31 pm

brian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:12 pm Not gonna pretend like I knew him, but I knew some people who did and that puts a lot of the pieces of puzzle together for me.

You counting those two women we met who worked there the first time we hung out on Fremont Street?

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:58 pm That was a wild read. Sad ending to what sounds like a really great and interesting guy.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:39 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:58 pm That was a wild read. Sad ending to what sounds like a really great and interesting guy.

I think trying to 'bio-hack' yourself by doing whip-its and hiking barefoot is probably a sign of something else going on.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:55 pm God almighty, "Laverne and Shirley" was one of the worst shows in history. Hated it with a passion when it was popular - one of the low points of TV comedy.

The fact that it and "Three's Company" were so popular when I was a kid pretty much convinced me that most people are dumb. Even now when people get all nostalgic for the 70's, I remember those shows and shudder.

But, thoughts and prayers.

Sabo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 6:08 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 5:55 pm God almighty, "Laverne and Shirley" was one of the worst shows in history. Hated it with a passion when it was popular - one of the low points of TV comedy.

The fact that it and "Three's Company" were so popular when I was a kid pretty much convinced me that most people are dumb. Even now when people get all nostalgic for the 70's, I remember those shows and shudder.

But, thoughts and prayers.

I bet you’re a blast at parties.

ETA: I actually agree with you. Just about all early 80s sitcoms are cringe-worthy.

A_B wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 9:28 pm All sitcoms sucked until I personally enjoyed them. This is fact.