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Mother Earth, musical prodigy or steely powerhouse? The enigma of Christine McVie


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/01/mother-earth-musical-prodigy-or-steely-powerhouse-the-enigma-of-christine-mcvie?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

* I had forgotten Dennis Wilson was a boyfriend. That couldn't have been good for her health.


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My favorite tribute band in the Bay Area

Fleetwood Mask

Intro by the man himself, Mick Fleetwood.
Even the lead singer (Michelle Rodriguez, Moreau Catholic High) looks like Stevie Nicks!
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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Fleetwood Mask band members the Fleetwood Mac tribute band

"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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Elite travel writers, Jan Morris, 94, Pwllheli Wales

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/20/jan-morris-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/02/jan-morris-life-in-motion

Dervla Murphy, 90, Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/may/26/dervla-murphy-obituary



They don't mention Dervla's love child, Rand Paul:


Do they sleep with curlers, or is this natural?


Dervla probably had curly hair. The squirrel pelts from which Rand Paul's "hair system" was created were treated with a curling product. Hopefully the squirrels had been slain before said application since those products are carcinogenic.

*SFCB, your welcome participation in this OT forum does not bode well for the state of the basketball program. In years past we couldn't tempt you off the hoop board.
I did it as a diversion, because the hoop board was getting down in the gutter. Now that I have arrived, I find I am all the way into the sewer.


It's nicer here than rooting for a Bears Tournament Run. Come and stay awhile.
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R.I.P. ******d Perry.

The 2-Time Cy Young Winner was 84



"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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R.I.P. ******d Perry.

The 2-Time Cy Young Winner was 84






Wow. Who would have thought the word ****** was a vulgarity.

Gay + lor = ******.
******d.
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Brad Henke.
Age 56.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/01/brad-william-henke-orange-is-the-new-black-star-and-ex-nfl-player-dead-at-56/
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Kirstie Alley, Cheers and Look Who's Talking actor, dies aged 71


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/kirstie-alley-dies-aged-71-cheers-look-whos-talking-actor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Kirstie Alley, Cheers and Look Who's Talking actor, dies aged 71


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/kirstie-alley-dies-aged-71-cheers-look-whos-talking-actor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Kirstie Alley in 1991:




Kirstie Alley in 2022:

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LIke her good friend Travolta KA was useful to Scientology.
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Kirstie Alley, Cheers and Look Who's Talking actor, dies aged 71


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/06/kirstie-alley-dies-aged-71-cheers-look-whos-talking-actor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Loved her in Cheers. Shelley Long was a tough act to follow and she did it well.

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Jet Black, drummer of The Stranglers has passed.





https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/08/the-stranglers-drummer-jet-black-dies-after-years-of-ill-health-aged-84
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If autopsy shows foul play, we should dispatch a Munich squad to Qatar that takes a side trip to The Kingdom. Debts have come due.

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Paul Silas, 3-time NBA champion, longtime coach, dies at 79


https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35232689/paul-silas-3-nba-champion-long-coach-dies-79



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RIP Paul Silas. Although he was a college HOFer, a solid pro and a very good NBA coach, he will always be first in my memory as one of the great stars of the dynastic McClymonds HS teams of the late '50s and early '60s Others from that era that come to mind: Hal Gardere, Joe Ellis, Ed Thomas, James Hadnot on teams that dominated Bay Area basketball with one of the greatest win streaks in HS BB history.
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Certainly a candidate for then"will he be remembered in 250 years" thread along with Maurice Jarre, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, Danny Elfman, and other film composers.

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Was he a founding member of Kraftwerk?
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It's always interesting to read people's final tweets.














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Mike Leach
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Mike Leach


https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35242848/mississippi-state-coach-mike-leach-dies-hospitalization


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okaydo said:

It's always interesting to read people's final tweets.


Maybe he bet on the game and was In the money, then Out of the money.
Then a DraftKings ad came on and he thought he could double down by predicting who would score next.
But he lost that, too.
And so on, until like a 1929 margined stock market gambler, he jumped out the window.

I'm sorry. I don't know this guy or his situation. This is terribly insensitive of me!
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dimitrig said:

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Mike Leach


https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35242848/mississippi-state-coach-mike-leach-dies-hospitalization



Thanks for posting this.
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/14/obituaries-2022-jean-luc-godard-remembered-by-caroline-champetier

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/14/godard-shattered-cinema-martin-scorsese-mike-leigh-abel-ferrara-luca-guadagnino-and-more-pay-tribute

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-obituary

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SFCityBear said:

dimitrig said:

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Mike Leach


https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35242848/mississippi-state-coach-mike-leach-dies-hospitalization



Thanks for posting this.


Sure.

Interesting stat from the article:

Mike Leach had some notable upsets as a head coach. His 18 wins vs AP-ranked opponents when his team was unranked are the most by a coach since the AP Poll was introduced in 1936.
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The Rascals drummer Dino Danelli dead at 78


https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/the-rascals-drummer-dino-danelli-dead-at-78/




Shirley Watts, wife of late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie has died



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Not an obituary, but I am going to post this here.

I found myself in Westwood yesterday rather unplanned and as I drove down Wilshire it dawned on me that the cemetery where Marilyn Monroe is buried is right near there somewhere, but I had never seen it. I had a girlfriend that lived in Westwood by the VA building and we used to walk around there a lot, but had never come across it although we never actively searched for it. I decided I would finally figure out where it is.

After a few false starts, I finally found the place. It is a small cemetery tucked in between high rises like a green oasis amid a concrete jungle. Wilshire Boulevard is actually visible, but it is hard to see from the street unless you know where to look.

I wandered around the cemetery and I was the only person there for most of the time except near the time I left when a college-aged kid wandered in. It was very peaceful and serene as even the traffic wasn't bad on a Sunday afternoon with UCLA out of session.

I knew a lot of famous people were buried there, but I couldn't remember who and I didn't do any research beforehand. I later read (was reminded, because I had read it before) that Natalie Wood, Ray Bradbury, Dean Martin, James Coburn, Farrah Fawcett, Gene Kelly, Florence Henderson, Janet Leigh, Bettie Page, and Tom Petty are buried there among others like Billy Wilder, George C. Scott, Peter Falk, Merv Griffin, Jack Lemmon, Truman Capote, Buddy Rich, and Burt Lancaster to name some.

I just strolled the grounds on my own and came across Don Knotts, Eva Gabor, Walter Matthau, Carroll O'Connor, and Kirk Douglas. Of course I found Marilyn Monroe, too, and beside her Hugh Hefner (yuck). If I was her estate I'd pay to have her remains moved away from that man.

Buried among them were also just a bunch of other random people. Some of the graves are pretty old by Los Angeles standards and I wondered what it was like to be buried there in the 1920s. Television and talking movies hadn't even been invented yet. I read a lot of the tombstones if there was anything to read.

Maybe it's a morbid hobby, but I do this from time to time and I have visited other cemeteries in LA where the rich and famous are buried such as Hollywood Forever. If you ever get a chance to go there for Dia de los Muertos you should. It's a big festival with food, vendors, and music.

Anyway, amongst these famous people were doctors, dentists, accountants, financial planners, TV executives, and all manner of people many of whom obviously had families that loved them given the inscriptions. I am sure some were good people and some probably the worst of the worst and yet there they all were together.

I thought about how many powerful people probably grieved at the small chapel on the grounds.

Death is a great equalizer.

I felt empowered to have something those rich, famous, and powerful people did not: Life.

Sometimes we take it for granted, but today the sun shines a little brighter and the air smells a little sweeter.

Enjoy this holiday season!

















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prospeCt said:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/14/obituaries-2022-jean-luc-godard-remembered-by-caroline-champetier

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/14/godard-shattered-cinema-martin-scorsese-mike-leigh-abel-ferrara-luca-guadagnino-and-more-pay-tribute

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-obituary



Anna, Claude and Sami


Jane and Jean-Paul


Jane and Yves


Jean-Paul and Anna


Agnes on Jean-Luc




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Terry Hall



1959 - 2022

RIP.
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dimitrig said:



…Maybe it's a morbid hobby, but I do this from time to time and I have visited other cemeteries
…some were good people and some probably the worst of the worst and yet there they all were together.



Great post.
Have you ever spent time on findagrave?
Here's Marilyn's page.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/725/marilyn-monroe

I have had the genealogy bug for nearly 2 decades now. Ancestry.com at first. Then familysearch.org
Sometimes I use wikitree.
But findagrave is fantastic and I've put most of my ancestors on there and linked them up. There can be a rush to be the person who manages a page, but most who post there are simply hobbyists who like walking graves and posting as many as possible, thus, they will transfer a page to a relative who asks. That's happened for me dozens of times. I can then better present their page.

I like findagrave better than pure genealogical trees (digital or paper) because it references a place that actually exists today. And those places are special - as you say, they represent where the person's remains still are, where the family stood and mourned.

I was driving across the USA about 10 years ago. I knew my maternal grandmother was buried in Topeka (grandpa had told me) but I didn't know which cemetery.

The day before getting to KS I looked on a lark, and someone had recently added her on findagrave. She hadn't been there when I looked a year or two before. I was thrilled. But when I got there it was about 7pm on a Sunday. Nobody was there and I had about 2 hours of daylight left.

I started walking the rows. After about 40 minutes, I found her. After I calmed down my excitement, I then began to imagine my grandfather, his 1 and 3 yr old daughters, her family all mourning the loss of this young woman (seizure). Same place, nothing changed, just time.

So, I like graveyards, too. I think it's healthy to consider death. Most people ignore it.

I don't visit my ancestors regularly - after the first visit, it becomes sad, loses that magic, hallowed feeling. I do try to visit everyone imaginable at least once! Great great aunts, uncles… doesn't matter, so long as my people were there. I can picture them all, where they stood and cried and said their goodbyes, like watching a movie in my head, in front of where I stand.
But I am on their findagrave pages all the time. In this way, I'm very in touch with my lineage story of how my life came to be - and where it's going. It allows me to think about what I want to do, see, leave behind - mostly, leave behind.

Amen, dimitrig.
(Is that, Dimitri G? Are you of Russian ancestry?)
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….and Lee Marvin gets shot in the @$$ in Saipan and ends in Arlington, go figure.


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concordtom's great idea / thread is starting to branch out!!! How long until folks can buy the merch? Prolly too late for the Holidays: darn.
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"Have you ever spent time on findagrave?"

No, but I've spent time in a grave.



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