Fiddler Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 11 hours ago, Martini Sigil said: Leon White aka Big Van Vader... 63 years old https://screenrant.com/leon-white-big-van-vader-death-obituary/ This hurts. We joked when I was younger that my dad was secretly Van Vader because of a passing resemblance, a CPAC head strap and the coincendence that Vader usually didn't appear in the PPV until my Dad went into his room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leofric Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Was sad to hear that Koko, the gorilla whohad mastered sign language, had died. She was 46 years old. Truly a goodwill ambassador for gorillas and all the Animal Kingdom. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/health/koko-gorilla-death-trnd/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukle Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 47 minutes ago, Leofric said: Was sad to hear that Koko, the gorilla whohad mastered sign language, had died. She was 46 years old. Truly a goodwill ambassador for gorillas and all the Animal Kingdom. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/health/koko-gorilla-death-trnd/index.html This is bittersweet. Her lifespan was a bit longer than what she could have expected in the wild. And I am always still so torn as to whether we should keep such beings in such small captive places. Yet she lived a life she enjoyed, making friends with the staff and with her pet cat. Koko proved to the world the human arrogance of assuming we were the only ones smart enough to truly have language, the only ones who ask questions, the only ones who feel compassion and have emotions. Once gorillas would have numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and the other great Apes probably in the millions. Now, they're left clinging to edges of the habitats we haven't destroyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrum Aeternum Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 RIP Vinnie Paul. I've been a metal guy since at least my early teen years. Back then, I was 100% into guitar. All my musical heroes were guitarists. I knew the notes to guitar solos better than I knew most lyrics. Hell, I even attempted to play a little bit. That being said, the first thing I noticed about Pantera wasn't Dimebag Darrell, as amazing as he was. Nope. It was his brother Vinnie, who had the hardest-hitting, most authoritative drum sound I'd ever heard. He could hold down a groove and force you to take notice like no other. I've still never heard anything else quite like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Harlan Ellison https://deadline.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 18 minutes ago, Martini Sigil said: Harlan Ellison https://deadline.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-dies-sci-fi-writer-was-84-1202419133/ One of the best short fiction writers to ever work in the genre. People will be reading his work for a long, long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Steve Ditko dead at 90. RIP https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44748923 Edit: managed to not see this in Lit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted August 13, 2018 Author Share Posted August 13, 2018 Jim "the Anvil" Niedhart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Aretha Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 4 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Aretha Franklin Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortstark Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 3 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Aretha Franklin This one hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Really sad about Aretha Franklin Grew up on her music...wonderful woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dbunting Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 You know she was big when the local news spends the first 15 minutes of a 30 minute show on nothing but her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted August 26, 2018 Author Share Posted August 26, 2018 "We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves." -John McCain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 That is a big name gone from the American political stage. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Another legend has passed. RIP, Burt Reynolds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Well, I guess I'm queueing up Cannonball Run. Rest in Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 3 hours ago, Corvinus said: Another legend has passed. RIP, Burt Reynolds 2 hours ago, GallowKnight said: Well, I guess I'm queueing up Cannonball Run. Rest in Peace. Yep. And Cannonball Run II is every bit as good as the original, whatever that says about the first movie. They were both fun movies. Smokey and the Bandit Deliverance The Longest Yard Boogie Knights He's made some great movies. On Amazon Prime he's got a new movie streaming called The Last Movie Star where he plays a character named Vic Edwards but he's really playing Burt Reynolds. I really recommend the movie. I hope Tarantino filmed all the scenes he needed with Burt for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and if there must be a final film for Burt, I'm glad it's a Tarantino film. RIP ETA: Apparently he was just cast and hadn't filmed anything for Once Upon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slurktan Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 I love Burt Reynolds and RIP but Cannonball Run and Cannonball Run 2 are extremely uncomfortable to watch these days with at least 3 characters I can think of off the top of my head who only exist because they are drunk drivers and that is funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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