R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

[Daehawk]

RIP to another Apollo astronaut.

He was played by Gary Sinise in the movie.

[Kraken]

he's best remembered at the guy who was bumped from commanding Apollo 13 three days before the flight because he was exposed to measles.

He would have been the command module pilot. The commander was Jim Lovell.

Good catch, thx.

[em2nought]

It's strange to think that an actor playing an astronaut in the movie died before some of the actual astronauts being represented in the movie considering the amount of time between the movie and the actual event.

[Kraken]

Frank Borman, 95. Commanded Apollo 8, the first spacecraft to leave Earth orbit for the moon, and the first to ride a Saturn V into space. Also flew a Gemini mission with Jim Lovell that demonstrated the ability of two spacecraft to dock.

When it flies (optimistically) a year from now, Artemis II will more-or-less reprise Apollo 8's mission.

[Daehawk]

RIP to him. He went from a young fearless astronaut 1 year before my birth to a 95 year old man within my lifetime and passed away. Time.

He was 14 years younger than me now when he flew around the moon.

[Unagi]

Just FYI, NYTimes is paywalled

[Blackhawk]

Goodbye, Marty Krofft. Thanks for the H.R. Acidtrip Puffinstuff.

A quick trip ( ) down memory lane:

[Daehawk]

Sid and Marty were so much of my tv watching in the 70s and some in the 80s even. We used to joke they must have had good drugs to think up this stuff lookin back. Lol. Rest well Marty you earned it buddy.

[Kraken]

I was too old to enjoy that show as a child and not old enough to appreciate it as an adult. I did see bits and pieces when my little sister watched it though.

[dbt1949]

I saw bits and pieces of it too while in the service. I was unimpressed. The guy had a full life and that is good.

[hitbyambulance]

Geordie Walker, guitarist of Killing Joke:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/killing- ... 64-3549275

UGH

[Dramatist]

Geordie Walker, guitarist of Killing Joke:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/killing- ... 64-3549275

UGH

So sad. Too many of the 80s music heroes dying.


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[LordMortis]

Berkshire's Charlie Munger has passed. Like or hate the way they did business, Berkshire are probably the most influential investors in the US. Among the most influential in the world.

[Brian]

Beerkshire's Charlie Munger has passed. Like or hate they way did business. Berkshire are probably the most influential investors in the US. Among the most influential in the world.

I work for Northern Natural Gas which is a BHE company and, yeah, this place is buzzing with the news.

[Blackhawk]

Henry Kissinger has reached the century mark.

And he's gone.

[Holman]

Henry Kissinger has reached the century mark.

And he's gone.

link

[Unagi]

Henry Kissinger has reached the century mark.

And he's gone.

Only the good die young.

[gbasden]

I hate to say it, but it's about fucking time, that fucking sociopath.

[Blackhawk]

Most of what he did predates me, and my improving education about politics hasn't generally gone that far backwards. I mostly just remember him as a name I heard on the news occasionally when I was a child. His reputation, however, seems to speak for itself.

[gbasden]

Most of what he did predates me, and my improving education about politics hasn't generally gone that far backwards. I mostly just remember him as a name I heard on the news occasionally when I was a child. His reputation, however, seems to speak for itself.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234804748/

The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds.

[Smoove_B]

Rolling Stone isn't holding back.

Bammed because I formatted it. That'll teach me!

[gbasden]

Rolling Stone isn't holding back.

Bammed because I formatted it. That'll teach me!

Darn me and my simple copy/paste! (although I at least gave a context quote! )

[Alefroth]

I can't say I didn't whoop when I first saw the headline.

[Daehawk]

Been around my entire life. Take away 4 years and he was twice as old as me. Always heard 'of' him and around him. More I remember of him is the look, the glasses, and the sound of his voice. I never knew anything about him or his work. 100 is a long time. He was around all 54 of my own years. Bout all I can say of the man.

[Moliere]

Read The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens if you need to know more about what a war criminal Kissinger was. Truly awful person.

[Unagi]

Been around my entire life. Take away 4 years and he was twice as old as me. Always heard 'of' him and around him. More I remember of him is the look, the glasses, and the sound of his voice. I never knew anything about him or his work. 100 is a long time. He was around all 54 of my own years. Bout all I can say of the man.

[Max Peck]

Behind the Bastards did a 6-part series on Kissinger, if you have a few hours that you'd rather spend listening than reading.

Spoiler:

[dbt1949]

He was a very smart man that I had zero trust in. RIP

[AWS260]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

[Exodor]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

[McNutt]

I guess I need to read up on Kissenger, because I'm not sure how you can lay the blame for millions of deaths on a US Secretary of State.

[LordMortis]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

RIP

Saw The Pogues in 2010, I think, because I was afraid he wasn't going to make much past that tour then. Was pleasantly surprised that Titus Andronicus was opening for them. It was the last really good line up of musicians playing with Patrick, IMO. Sad that Amy had already left the band at that time. She was fantastic.

Shane wasn't wasted when we saw them, but he didn't look great (physically. His performance was actually better than I thought it would be)

[ImLawBoy]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

I kind of figured he had already died.

[A nonny mouse]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

R.I.P.. Going to see them was kind of like going to see Johnny Thunders - just to see how wasted he was.

And his wife mentioning "Wanting to see his smile again." I understand the sentiment, but not the actual smile

[Alefroth]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

I kind of figured he had already died.

There's a thread for that.

[Alefroth]

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan.

Just saw this. I'm kind of amazed he made it to 65.

He also gave me the worst concert I ever saw. He was so drunk he was unable to sing as fast as the band was playing and kept falling sideways. The best parts of the show were when he left the stage and the band played without him.

R.I.P.. Going to see them was kind of like going to see Johnny Thunders - just to see how wasted he was.

And his wife mentioning "Wanting to see his smile again." I understand the sentiment, but not the actual smile

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... tv-special

[Alefroth]

I guess I need to read up on Kissenger, because I'm not sure how you can lay the blame for millions of deaths on a US Secretary of State.

Here's a good starting point-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... mbing-war/

The scale of this bombing campaign, internally called Operation Menu, was kept secret from the American public for many decades, though leaked and declassified records have revealed that Kissinger personally “approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids.” In 1970, according to declassified transcripts of his telephone conversations, Kissinger spoke to Nixon about the situation in Cambodia before relaying the following order to his deputy Alexander Haig: “He wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. … It’s an order, it’s to be done. Anything that flies, on anything that moves. You got that?”

[TheMix]

Was he also responsible for the bombing of Laos? Having recently visited the COPE Center... words fail me. It was eye-opening. And not a little horrifying.

[Brian]

Apparently we missed the passing of Francis Sternhagen.

Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actor who was familiar maternal face on TV, dies at 93

She was in a ton of stuff but I mostly remember her as the curmudgeonly doctor in Outland.

[Isgrimnur]

Grandma Carter from ER.