Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:19 pm

Giff wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:48 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:30 pm Volettta Wallace...Notorious B.I.G.'s mom
Really odd timing as I'm going through the podcast "60 Songs That Explain the 90s", and the last one I listened this week to was about "Juicy" where the host talked about her a lot.

One of my favorite shows ever (the podcast in general).

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:39 am

Roberta Flack...insert Killing Me Softly joke.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:31 am

Rick Buckler, drummer for The Jam, one of my favorite bands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99n0p2x94vo

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 6:57 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:39 am Roberta Flack...insert Killing Me Softly joke.

This is a great piece, written a couple of years ago.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 1:01 pm

Baloney wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:31 am Rick Buckler, drummer for The Jam, one of my favorite bands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99n0p2x94vo

Been seeing a lot of The Jam on the internet since he passed! A buddy of mine is from the band’s hometown (Woking).

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:09 pm

Clint Hill.secret service agent who leapt on JFK limo
https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-cultu ... ngNewsSerp

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:52 pm

Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Actor, Dies at 39

Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor best known for film and television roles including “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. She was 39.

She was found in her New York City apartment, according to police. She recently underwent a liver transplant, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news; Trachtenberg’s cause of death has not been confirmed.

Damn...39 is way too young.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:55 pm

Oh man!

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:04 pm

Former Baylor QB and my favorite QB growing up, JJ Joe

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:09 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:52 pm Michelle Trachtenberg, ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Actor, Dies at 39

Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor best known for film and television roles including “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. She was 39.

She was found in her New York City apartment, according to police. She recently underwent a liver transplant, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news; Trachtenberg’s cause of death has not been confirmed.
Damn...39 is way too young.

Oh my god, not Dawn!

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:45 pm

That’s just tragic. And it appears to be somewhat natural causes. 39 by any reason is just so unbelievably sad.

EuroTrip was funny as hell.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Mar 01, 2025 1:07 pm

David Johansen

This one really saddens me. Lead singer of the outrageous 1970s glam/proto-punk band, The New York Dolls, as well as some decent solo stuff. Also did some acting (Scrooged, Car 54 Where are You?), and you kids might best know him for his alternate persona of Buster Poindexter (Hot, Hot, Hot).

TankFarm2023 · Post by **TankFarm2023** » Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:52 pm

All the members of the Dolls and Ramones (founding members anyhow, if memory serves) are now dead. And yet, the cretins from KISS still walk the Earth? Not to Mention He who Shall capitalize Random words?

This world fucking blows.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:16 pm

TankFarm2023 wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:52 pm All the members of the Dolls and Ramones (founding members anyhow, if memory serves) are now dead. And yet, the cretins from KISS still walk the Earth? Not to Mention He who Shall capitalize Random words?

This world fucking blows.

Harrumph, harrumph!

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 03, 2025 2:07 pm

The Man with the golden arm. Would have thought this was a pitcher or something else.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... 3350&ei=19

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:55 am

This guy, what a fucking vibe that song has

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:45 am

Impeccable vibe

HaulCitgo · Post by **HaulCitgo** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 9:57 am

Brand Nubian pours a little liquor

Post by **brian** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:00 pm

Andy Issac, Detroit super fan and hilarious Twitter personality.

Fuck cancer.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 10:25 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 2:07 pm The Man with the golden arm. Would have thought this was a pitcher or something else.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... 3350&ei=19

Insert GIF of me crying here.

Damn. Imagine being able to be that awesome for the world.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:09 pm

Horrifying to imagine a modern day version and how it would get monetized.

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:02 am

D’Wayne Wiggins, Co-Founding Member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, Dead at 64

"Feels Good" is a "makes me feel like I'm on a school bus again" all-timer.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:29 am

mister d wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 11:09 pm Horrifying to imagine a modern day version and how it would get monetized.

The Man With the Golden Arm™

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 12:48 pm

Craig Wolfley. Steelers O-line and radio broadcaster.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 1:27 pm

Kevin Drum.

One of the first political bloggers I followed.

https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 8:21 pm

One of my favorite players back when I followed the NBA religiously.

Junior Bridgeman, heart attack, 71.

He was one of the reasons they thought of the 6th man of the year award (well, him, Bobby Jones, Kevin McHale, and Michael Cooper).

RIP

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:21 pm

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 7:31 pm

This one hurts. That Arkansas team with him, Todd Day, and Lee Mayberry was my first favorite college basketball team outside of Phi Slama Jama.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:09 pm

Giff wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 7:31 pm This one hurts. That Arkansas team with him, Todd Day, and Lee Mayberry was my first favorite college basketball team outside of Phi Slama Jama.

Those Arkansas teams were so much fun. I had just assumed he had been on the team that won the Championship, but he had graduated already.

GoodKarma · Post by **GoodKarma** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:06 am

I agree...one of, if not my favorite, CBB teams ever.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:14 am

This should be a separate thread so I don't hijack.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 3:52 pm

Local legend...

Even got a shout out from local HipHop group Blues Scholars...

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Thu Mar 20, 2025 6:57 am

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 23, 2025 6:54 am

Kitty Dukakis

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:28 pm

Hank Steinbrenner...huge for us soccer

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:18 pm

I'm gonna be respectful and just say there's another version of this biography that isn't as flattering as what I'm reading tonight.

Dude had his paws on a lot of $$ issues and it didn't always redound to the benefit of actually building a solid USSF foundation.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Mar 27, 2025 3:26 pm

L.J. Smith ...author of Vampire Diaries

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 12:38 pm

Joe DePugh, Speedball Pitcher in Springsteen’s ‘Glory Days,’ Dies at 75

Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired the rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in Freehold, N.J., where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died on Friday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 75.

The cause of death, in a hospice facility, was metastatic prostate cancer, his brother Paul DePugh said.

In the early 1960s, before Mr. Springsteen became the Boss, he was a clumsy baseball player whose athletic abilities were so sad that Joe, the team’s star pitcher, gave him the nickname Saddie.

“Bruce lost this big game for us one year,” Mr. DePugh told The Palm Beach Post in 2011. “We stuck him out in right field all the time, where you think he’s out of harm’s way. But this important game, we had a bunch of guys missing, and we had to play him.”

In the last inning, Saddie dropped an easy fly ball.

“Actually, it hit him on the head,” Mr. DePugh said, “and we lost the game.”

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:04 pm

Might be my least favorite lyric of all-time.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:17 pm

mister d wrote: Fri Apr 04, 2025 1:04 pm Might be my least favorite lyric of all-time.

"Speedball" is just not a baseball term. "Fastball" would have worked just as well.