The Swamp

Reaper wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:15 pm He probably deserves his own thread, but I got a text about eight hours ago that Willis Reed died and nobody has posted it yet so I'm just gonna drop it here.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:00 pm Gary Brooker. The distinctive voice of 60s/70s English rock band, Procol Harum. Particularly notable for A Whiter Shade of Pale.

Mark Russell, Washington’s social-political satirist and stand-up comic who spoofed, teased and laughed at celebrities, politicians, politics and popular culture for more than 50 years from behind his star-spangled piano, died March 30 at his home in D.C. He was 90.

The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said his wife, Alison Russell.

From the waning years of Dwight Eisenhower’s administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles and flaws of the well-known, the pompous and the powerful in monologues replete with pithy one-liners and musical ditties. He called himself “a political cartoonist for the blind.”

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:55 pm I have a vague memory of Mark Russell filming or performing in the auditorium in my college dorm. Looked him up, and he was from Buffalo, so maybe I'm not making this up.

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:57 pm y i'd always had this distant knowledge that he was from Buffalo and I think you're right; i feel like he used to play here and those shows were on PBS. I think my dad would always try to get me to watch those back in the 80s.... ehh.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:55 pm I have a vague memory of Mark Russell filming or performing in the auditorium in my college dorm. Looked him up, and he was from Buffalo, so maybe I'm not making this up.

Bobbi Ercoline, who one morning during the Woodstock music festival rested her head on her boyfriend’s chest and in that drowsy moment became a symbol of 1960s hippiedom, died on March 18 at her home in Pine Bush, N.Y. She was 73.

Her Woodstock boyfriend and later her husband, Nick Ercoline, said the cause was leukemia.

About a half-million people attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Aug. 15-18, in 1969, a cultural phenomenon that has endured in the popular imagination partly with the help of “Woodstock,” a 1970 documentary, and its album soundtrack, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Richie Havens and many more musicians.

Ms. Ercoline’s tender moment became the subject of a photograph chosen for the cover of the soundtrack album, a three-LP set that was once a familiar sight in record collections in dorm rooms and coffee houses throughout the country.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:19 pm I read a great biography of The Replacements awhile ago. Seymour Stein didn’t discover them, but he brought them up to major-label status. What really impressed the notoriously hard-partying band was that Stein could keep up with them drink-for-drink, even though he was 20 years older than them.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:54 pm Billy Hahn

Terps player in the early 70s and Gary Williams long time assistant. Head coach at La salle and assistant for Huggins at WV.

Reaper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 9:13 pm Oscar-nominated actor (for Barton Fink), Michael Lerner, 81. Also appeared in Harlem Nights, Eight Men Out, Elf and many, many more. His son Sam and brother Ken play son/father on The Goldbergs as Geoff and Lou Schwartz.

Reaper wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 8:31 am Barry Humphries, better known as Dame Edna, passes away at 89 in Sydney. Thankfully he's been staying out of the US recently or he may have been taken out sooner.

Reaper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:09 am A Jamaican farewell to Harry Belafonte, 96.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:29 pm I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:16 am Harry Belafonte obscure?

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:23 am My mother will be fangirling him in heaven today. She loved the guy.

Reaper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:38 am While making sure someone didn't already post this, I found this gem from ten years ago that seems a bit offensive today.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:29 pm I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

bfj wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:34 am

Reaper wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:38 am While making sure someone didn't already post this, I found this gem from ten years ago that seems a bit offensive today.

Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:29 pm I heartily endorse bfj's tweet:

I'm so sick of hearing Day-O at the ballpark that I want to invent a time machine so I can punch a pregnant Mrs. Belafonte in the uterus.

TWILTS because where else can I post that kind of shit?