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So it begins anew...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/obitu...-dead.html

The first actor to play Worf's son Alexander died on 5 January ... at 33.  WTF, God?

Quote:[A holodeck scenario set in the "Ancient West" includes an obvious prostitute flashing some leg]
Worf:  You programmed this yourself?!
Alexander:  Well ... Mr. Barclay helped.
DHBirr, watching, guessing how Worf would respond:  "I'll have to talk with Mr. Barclay!"
Worf:  I shall have to have a little talk with Mr. Barclay!
—  TNG episode "A Fistful of Datas" 

The flute soloist from Nights in White Satin has passed on:  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/j...dies-at-76

(01-08-2018, 05:54 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]RIP Marilyn Chambers

Rob?
That's a eight year old story ...


Kilroy

One of the cast of Soap has passed on:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/can...-1.3751131

(01-08-2018, 07:41 PM)Kilroy Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-08-2018, 05:54 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]RIP Marilyn Chambers

Rob?
That's a eight year old story ...


Kilroy

So it is... There's a bug in my alerting software, obviously.

The first lady to become a general in the United States armed forces has answered the last post. Let Taps be played.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obi...872678774a

Cinamon Hadley, the woman who was the model for the design for Death of the Endless in Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg’s The Sandman died. She succumbed to cancer at only 48 years old.

https://www.geek.com/comics/the-sandmans...8-1727353/

(01-10-2018, 04:51 PM)Kilroy Wrote: [ -> ]Cinamon Hadley, the woman who was the model for the design for Death of the Endless in Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg’s The Sandman died. She succumbed to cancer at only 48 years old.

https://www.geek.com/comics/the-sandmans...8-1727353/

For those curious enough, her obit at post-punk.com has several photos, including two side-by-side with an almost identical drawing of Death.

Edgar Ray Killen, a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964, died in prison on January 11.

He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter in June 21, 2005, forty-one years after the crime had happened.

(01-13-2018, 09:51 AM)SelfCloak Wrote: [ -> ]Edgar Ray Killen, a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964, died in prison on January 11.

He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter in June 21, 2005, forty-one years after the crime had happened.

I'd consider that a borderline case in terms of "cursed" status. I mean, yes, any man's death diminishes me, but I for one find I can bear this particular diminution with enormous fortitude.

(01-13-2018, 10:27 AM)Mamorien Wrote: [ -> ]

(01-13-2018, 09:51 AM)SelfCloak Wrote: [ -> ]Edgar Ray Killen, a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964, died in prison on January 11.

He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter in June 21, 2005, forty-one years after the crime had happened.

I'd consider that a borderline case in terms of "cursed" status. I mean, yes, any man's death diminishes me, but I for one find I can bear this particular diminution with enormous fortitude.

Like what happened to Mr. Manson last year.

i'm sorry, but i have to say this. Occasionally someone brightens this world simply by leaving it, and while it is not our place to label such individuals ourselves, there are simply some we can rejoice in their passing on to their final justice.

Keith Jackson passed on before the weekend started:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...031264001/

And one of the original Mouseketeers has left us:  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doreen-trac...ead-at-74/

Dolores O'Riordan, singer of the Cranberries has passed away: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42696376

Emmett Johns, founder of the Montreal organization "Dans La Rue" to help the homeless, died yesterday.

RIP Red Fisher, sportswriter whose first assignment was the "Richard Riot" of 1955.

Red was a Member of the Order of Canada, and was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Nancy Richler has passed on:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/boo...e37662467/

Also, Peter Wyngarde has left us:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15865...n/?ref=rss

Famous French chef Paul Bocuse died yesterday: https://nytimes.com/2018/01/20/obituarie...-dead.html

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Derrick Coleman, better known as Fredo Santana, rapper and cousin of Chief Keef, died from a seizure related to lean consumption. He was 27. https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen...-1.3767806

RIP Hugh Masekela, the "father of South African Jazz"