Carlton "Sam" Young has died. He was a composer and leader in worship and music studies.
Sam was commissioned to write an anthem for 1st UMC Kissimmee while I was an alternate organist there. Since a good proportion of the congregation were Disney employees, he added a snippet of 'Whistle While You Work' to the original version of the anthem. When it was published, that snippet was gone, of course! That anthem was also condensed into a hymn which was included in the 1989 UMC hymnal. I still have that original piece of music...somewhere in the house!
Worth noting he also served as editor for the 1989 UMC hymnal and wrote the Companion to that hymnal.
It doesn’t look like it’s been mentioned that Tim Keller, founder and long-time pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72 on May 19. A minister in the (conservative) Presbyterian Church in America, Keller wrote a number of books. He was a prominent figure in the New Calvinist movement (which some in the Reformed tradition have said is neither new nor Calvinist). That included holding to complimentarianism.
But he was also a critic of American Evangelicalism’s whole-hearted embrace of the Republican Party, and particularly of its support of Trump.
Televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate "Pat" Robertson has died (full name Marion Gordon Robertson). He's notable for blaming the ACLU for the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina on American abortion policy, and Haiti's 2010 earthquake on a Satanic pact allegedly entered into by Haiti's founders.
Merrick Garland was the head of the DOJ domestic terrorism unit which prosecuted Kaczynski and also oversaw the prosecution of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Atlantic Olympic Bombing.
Pretty hard to discuss his most notable outrage without getting epiphanic, except to say that he was being investigated for something or other, and he did a typical anti-diversity joke about how there were alot of minority groups represented on the committee.
Also remembered for trying to ban The Beach Boys from the White House on the grounds that they were associated with drug-culture. He was over-ruled by Reagan on that.
Merrick Garland was the head of the DOJ domestic terrorism unit which prosecuted Kaczynski and also oversaw the prosecution of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Atlantic Olympic Bombing.
The 1990s were a heyday for stochastic terrorism in flyover country. Granted, the Unanomber's campaign had begun in the late 1970s, but his later actions fit the general zeitgeist well.
Kaczynski's manifesto actually had some valid points about the various political ideologies and their adherents, but not much that hadn't been said with more style and eloquence elsewhere.
Rufus's crosswords weren't quite as devious as those of some of his colleagues; his usual slot was a Monday, presumably to break us in gently for the week.
We watched the film of Women In Love in my intro to English literature class at university. Just re-watched her dance with the herd on YouTube. Entrancing and slightly erotic, in what I assume is the typical D.H. Lawrence way. (I dislike long novels, and only ever skimmed the book, if that.)
Overall, though, I think I'll just recommend her turn as a dastardly pirate captain on The Muppet Show.
It strikes me as pretty unlikely that anyone at the place and time of the story's setting would be randomly singing I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, an American song that had only been released the year before the novel was published.
For some reason I was surprised she was that old; in my head she'll always be the age she was in Sunday, Bloody Sunday or Elizabeth R.
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When we were in St John's we had a visit at the Cathedral from the Princess Royal, who read the lesson. I was expecting her to sound like the Queen, but to me she sounded exactly like Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I.
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One of the last things Glenda Jackson did was a radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story Chivalry - she played the old lady visited by the Grail Knight, after she picked up an interesting old goblet in a charity shop! It was delightful!
Sue Johanson was looked up to by a lot of high school students. Our older daughter helped organise a visit to the school that shocked some parents, but delighted the students. The aftershock of that is the realisation that it must have been more than 30 years ago!
One of those actors I always heard about while growing up, but never paid much attention to, probably because his movies were usually rated adult, so I didn't get to see them.
The CBC headline said he was "known for" Little Miss Sunshine and Argo, both great performances(*), but I'd say there's a bit of a millenial bias in citing those, while omting, say, Catch-22 or even Glengarry Glen Ross.
(*) Looking back, LMS seems a little paint-by-numbers in its quirkiness("Hey, wouldn't it just be so edgy to have the grandpa as a heroin user?"). I think Argo holds up pretty well, I didn't know about the role played by Hollywood producers in that rescue.
Jane Birkin who, with Serge Gainsbourg, recorded the much-banned Je t'aime ... moi non plus, has died. Her other claim to fame was helping to design the eponymous bag for Hermès.
As far as the old-school mid-C20 crooners go, he was pretty far off my radar. All I really know is that he sang I Left My Heart In San Francisco, and even that, I couldn't sing in my head.
I do know one of my aunt's was a huge fan. But the only time I can recall seeing him perform was when he was a musical guest on SCTV(Canadian comedy show featuring talent from the Second City troupe).
It was touching to see him doing projects with Lady Gaga a couple of years back. I gather the resulting material was fairly well received.
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She was on @A Feminine Force's 2019 list. I don't think anyone has Tina Turner on their current year's list.
Lists would be that other thread.
But he was also a critic of American Evangelicalism’s whole-hearted embrace of the Republican Party, and particularly of its support of Trump.
As one internet commenter put it, "Boy, am I feeling eager to find out who number three in this death cluster will be."
Fingers crossed for Kissinger!
Looks like you'll have to settle for Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski 04475-046, a.k.a. the Unabomber.
Merrick Garland was the head of the DOJ domestic terrorism unit which prosecuted Kaczynski and also oversaw the prosecution of the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Atlantic Olympic Bombing.
Pretty hard to discuss his most notable outrage without getting epiphanic, except to say that he was being investigated for something or other, and he did a typical anti-diversity joke about how there were alot of minority groups represented on the committee.
Also remembered for trying to ban The Beach Boys from the White House on the grounds that they were associated with drug-culture. He was over-ruled by Reagan on that.
The 1990s were a heyday for stochastic terrorism in flyover country. Granted, the Unanomber's campaign had begun in the late 1970s, but his later actions fit the general zeitgeist well.
Kaczynski's manifesto actually had some valid points about the various political ideologies and their adherents, but not much that hadn't been said with more style and eloquence elsewhere.
Does Silvio Berlusconi count?
The proto-Trump/Johnson? His death feels symbolic at this moment somehow.
It's a reminder that, eventually, these people DIE, even if their evil carries on after them...
An ace ere pints drunk (4,2,5)
Overall, though, I think I'll just recommend her turn as a dastardly pirate captain on The Muppet Show.
It strikes me as pretty unlikely that anyone at the place and time of the story's setting would be randomly singing I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, an American song that had only been released the year before the novel was published.
Was excellent at whatever she chose to do.
A very appropriate epitaph!
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When we were in St John's we had a visit at the Cathedral from the Princess Royal, who read the lesson. I was expecting her to sound like the Queen, but to me she sounded exactly like Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I.
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I was just coming here to post that.
I knew someone in Korea who watched her show. I think it was on a domestic channel.
Sue Johanson was looked up to by a lot of high school students. Our older daughter helped organise a visit to the school that shocked some parents, but delighted the students. The aftershock of that is the realisation that it must have been more than 30 years ago!
One of those actors I always heard about while growing up, but never paid much attention to, probably because his movies were usually rated adult, so I didn't get to see them.
The CBC headline said he was "known for" Little Miss Sunshine and Argo, both great performances(*), but I'd say there's a bit of a millenial bias in citing those, while omting, say, Catch-22 or even Glengarry Glen Ross.
(*) Looking back, LMS seems a little paint-by-numbers in its quirkiness("Hey, wouldn't it just be so edgy to have the grandpa as a heroin user?"). I think Argo holds up pretty well, I didn't know about the role played by Hollywood producers in that rescue.
As far as the old-school mid-C20 crooners go, he was pretty far off my radar. All I really know is that he sang I Left My Heart In San Francisco, and even that, I couldn't sing in my head.
I do know one of my aunt's was a huge fan. But the only time I can recall seeing him perform was when he was a musical guest on SCTV(Canadian comedy show featuring talent from the Second City troupe).
It was touching to see him doing projects with Lady Gaga a couple of years back. I gather the resulting material was fairly well received.