September 28, 2022:
Coolio, whose Grammy-winning “Gangsta’s Paradise” became instantly distinguishable for millions of ’90s rap fans, has died at 59. https://t.co/SPDnSnvx1Y
— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) September 29, 2022
Coolio, whose Grammy-winning “Gangsta’s Paradise” became instantly distinguishable for millions of ’90s rap fans, has died at 59. https://t.co/SPDnSnvx1Y
— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) September 29, 2022
Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. https://t.co/ATdwml7dpA
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 4, 2022
bearister said:
https://abc7news.com/entertainment/native-american-activist-sacheen-littlefeather-dies-at-75/12289461/
Judy Tenuta Dies: “Love Goddess” Comic & Actress Was 72 https://t.co/8Di8UVbV64
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 6, 2022
The famously reclusive Finke founded her site as Deadline Hollywood Daily, the 24/7 Internet version of her long-running print column “Deadline Hollywood” for LA Weekly
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 10, 2022
Her often biting, acerbic posts called out wrongdoing and wrongdoers as she saw fit — making her a hero to many assistants and below-the-liners while irking many in the C-suites who were not used to anything less than praise
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 10, 2022
Finke’s take-no-prisoners style angered many of showbiz’s top players and delighted others. She often scored huge exclusives, and when they were confirmed by comms teams or publicists, Finke would update her story using her signature “TOLDJA!”
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 10, 2022
She applied warning labels to many of those live blogs, including, “Come for the cynicism … stay for the subversion” and “Not for the easily offended or ridiculously naive.” Indeed, no exec, star, producer or topic was safe then — or in any other Deadline post
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 10, 2022
Deadline’s Nikki Finke Was the Ultimate Hollywood Disruptor https://t.co/eniFRPhhHO pic.twitter.com/9O5rGcp8Da
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) October 9, 2022
Breaking News: Angela Lansbury has died at 96. She was a formidable Hollywood and Broadway actress who won new fans on “Murder, She Wrote.” https://t.co/61N9YC6czo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 11, 2022
concordtom said:
10 minutes. I win.Breaking News: Angela Lansbury has died at 96. She was a formidable Hollywood and Broadway actress who won new fans on “Murder, She Wrote.” https://t.co/61N9YC6czo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 11, 2022
No, wait. Allow me:
"Yeah, you win the No Class Award for the month!"
RIP, Angela - really enjoyed your work on MSW.
Robbie Coltrane has passed away at age 72 pic.twitter.com/gBqeVaEN3e
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) October 14, 2022
Hagrid knew too much and offended the wrong wizards. Either that or his dragon got him.concordtom said:Robbie Coltrane has passed away at age 72 pic.twitter.com/gBqeVaEN3e
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) October 14, 2022
Harry Potter films
That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
After a long and exciting recruiting process, i’m blessed to announce that i will be continuing my athletic and academic journey at Mississippi State University! Go dawgs 🐶 @HailStateFB @Coach_TWard @ThardiN1235 @tupelofootball pic.twitter.com/OFnsQ0WSpF
— samuel westmoreland (@samuelwestmore2) March 28, 2022
— Mike Leach (@Coach_Leach) October 19, 2022
Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
Eastern Oregon Bear said:My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
Thanks Tony. I probably wouldn't have shared all that, but ConcordTom kept asking me about my children for some reason and after deflecting it the first time, I decided to just explain my situation to him.82gradDLSdad said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
Thanks for sharing. Refreshing to read this rather than some of our other BI stuff. My wife and I had twins in the mid 80s. She was 31, I was 26. It was hard but along with marrying my wife it's been the best thing I've ever done. I can imagine life without them and it wouldn't be nearly as interesting, rewarding, challenging and fun, basically, all the emotions that comprise a decent life. Good luck to you.
Tony
Eastern Oregon Bear said:Thanks Tony. I probably wouldn't have shared all that, but ConcordTom kept asking me about my children for some reason and after deflecting it the first time, I decided to just explain my situation to him.82gradDLSdad said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
Thanks for sharing. Refreshing to read this rather than some of our other BI stuff. My wife and I had twins in the mid 80s. She was 31, I was 26. It was hard but along with marrying my wife it's been the best thing I've ever done. I can imagine life without them and it wouldn't be nearly as interesting, rewarding, challenging and fun, basically, all the emotions that comprise a decent life. Good luck to you.
Tony
My wife and I are avid readers, though I'm a piker next to her.She can read over 100 books in a year (but she doesn't do that every year). I'm at 15-20 max. We both read the Harry Potter books a couple of times even before the movies. The same for other series. We read The Hunger Games trilogy before the movies, The Game of Thrones before the HBO series (George R. R. Martin quit being lazy and finish the damn series before you die!), The Martian before the movie, etc.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Thanks Tony. I probably wouldn't have shared all that, but ConcordTom kept asking me about my children for some reason and after deflecting it the first time, I decided to just explain my situation to him.82gradDLSdad said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.concordtom said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:That's what they want us Muggles to think.concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
And how old are Your children?
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck!
Thanks for sharing. Refreshing to read this rather than some of our other BI stuff. My wife and I had twins in the mid 80s. She was 31, I was 26. It was hard but along with marrying my wife it's been the best thing I've ever done. I can imagine life without them and it wouldn't be nearly as interesting, rewarding, challenging and fun, basically, all the emotions that comprise a decent life. Good luck to you.
Tony
I, too, appreciate the personal narrative. Too rare here.
You mentioned Muggles… 3 of my 5 girls have read the Harry Potter books many times. I can't imagine doing so once but I know all things HP, so I figured you were like me, children bringing it into your vocabulary.
Eastern Oregon Bear said:
Now I'm hoping that talking about my marriage in the Obituaries thread isn't bad juju.
we're just not that removed from the past https://t.co/1M7rGTEvAx
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 21, 2022
For anyone who wants to understand America, City of Quartz is one of the essential books of the last 50 years. Good thoughts to Mike Davis and his loved ones. https://t.co/b1RVKktNSj
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) June 26, 2022
— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) October 26, 2022
R.I.P. Mike Davis, one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the last 40 years, and an incredible writer and synthesizer. Each in its own way, his books—City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts—were transformative reads. We needed him for the future, if there is to be one. pic.twitter.com/wNaag0BiDM
— Joe Guinan (@joecguinan) October 26, 2022
The Los Angeles Dodgers are saddened to hear of the passing of Roz Wyman. Roz paved the way for the Dodgers to come to Los Angeles, and her impact was not just on our organization, but the entire city. Our deepest sympathies and condolences go out to her family. pic.twitter.com/tg10CuLk2V
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 27, 2022