*Tyler was a slaveholder and, given the common practices of the time, we can't rule out the possibility of additional unacknowledged descendants of America's 10th president.
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a regular contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language (Gikuyu), has died aged 87.
One of the greats. 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.'
Peter David, Star Trek and comics author, has just died after suffering health problems for some time. I met him once at a Comic Con - he was lovely.
I know him mainly for his future Spider-Man and X-Men adjacent stories, but he's best known for his work on the Incredible Hulk in what was maybe the last really formative run from Marvel's eighties heyday.
I find myself blinking a bit at how old the cast of M*A*S*H are/were; it doesn't seem that long ago!
Same here.
Meanwhile, Valerie Mahaffey—Northern Exposure (for which she won an Emmy), Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, and many other movies and tv shows—died from cancer over the weekend. She was 71,
Just saw that the great biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has died at 92.
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
Just saw that the great biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has died at 92.
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
I hadn’t seen that, and am sorry to see it. He was indeed a great scholar.
“Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose path-finding, psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late ’60s and early ’70s, has died. He was 82.”
Little factoid, Brian never surfed. He hated the ocean. Growing up he lived near a beach, but the constant wave action unnerved him. His final home was several miles inland and it faced east.
I was surprised to read of the death of Kim Woodburn (How clean is your house). I had not picked her as being in her early 80's, but that's me not taking notice of how quickly time is passing, I suspect.
This is terribly sad. He has been very ill for some months, and there was a special MND match in his honour locally and arranged by Gloucestershire CC only this Friday which he was too ill to get to.
I don't think anyone's mentioned him either here or in the Celebrity Death Pool, but despite not being a Liverpool fan, I found myself feeling very sad to hear about Diogo Jota's tragic and sudden death in a car crash at the age of 28. In fact, I know so little about footie that I hadn't even heard of him until the other day.
Prayers ascending for his wife and three children.
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*Tyler was a slaveholder and, given the common practices of the time, we can't rule out the possibility of additional unacknowledged descendants of America's 10th president.
One of the greats. 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.'
Meanwhile, Valerie Mahaffey—Northern Exposure (for which she won an Emmy), Desperate Housewives and Young Sheldon, and many other movies and tv shows—died from cancer over the weekend. She was 71,
“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.”
https://trib.al/0iK2d7y
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-krykant-dies-suddenly-tributes-35376184
As Sean Lennon said, the American Mozart. One of the greats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjmmmrl4mz7o
He was outstanding.
😪 RIP Syd, brought down in life, as in cricket, by ghastly injury.
Newscaster Sandy Gall, who would certainly have been on my "I thought he'd been dead for years" list.
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Prayers ascending for his wife and three children.
Also, Gerald Harper, the actor most famous for Adam Adamant in the 1960s and Hadleigh in the 1970s, has died at the great age of 96!
Nooo! He can't have been so very much older than me - oh, wait...