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The "Cursed Thread" of 2018
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Another delayed entry: Christopher Stasheff died on 10 June 2018, and I only learned of it yesterday.
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed." 
Oh, no. Damn.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
RIP fanfiction author Chilord, aka Jonathan McCready, passed away this morning after struggling with cancer for some time.
His one published novel can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Freshman-Not...B072FVVQKY Most of his fan-written works can be found here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/fanficti...-desk-f51/ or here: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/67673/Chilord 
RIP Mai Skaf, Syrian actress and activist
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown  (08-06-2018, 08:53 AM)ECSNorway Wrote: RIP fanfiction author Chilord, aka Jonathan McCready, passed away this morning after struggling with cancer for some time. May his family and friends be at peace during this trying time.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
(08-06-2018, 05:50 AM)DHBirr Wrote: Another delayed entry: Christopher Stasheff died on 10 June 2018, and I only learned of it yesterday.  Damn, I always liked his books. I've got a lot of his novels, a couple dozen at least.
Charlotte Rae, best known from Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, passed away three days ago at age 92, apparently peacefully and in her sleep.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... (08-09-2018, 12:57 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:(05-14-2018, 12:36 PM)robkelk Wrote: RIP Margot Kidder A sad thing indeed.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
RIP V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
RIP Mary Pratt, who turned the everyday into art.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Aretha Franklin has died. It wasn't exactly unexpected, but stilll...
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has passed on: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obi...fb1c8f7803
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
And India just lost a former prime minister: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/obitu...-dead.html
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Stefan Karl Stefansson, known to Latibær fans as Glanni Glæpur and to LazyTown fans as Robbie Rotten, has lost his rematch with bile duct cancer:
http://www.tmz.com/2018/08/21/lazytown-a...es-cancer/
Japanese voice actor Unshou Ishizuka, best known for his roles as Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop, Professor Oak in Pokemon, and Captain Hijikata in Space Battleship Yamato 2199/2202, passed away last week.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20...67/.135579 Other roles include Guld Goa Bowman in Macross Plus, Van Hohenheim in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Momochi Zabuza in Naruto, and Alex Rosewater in the Japanese dub of Big O.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
RIP Barbara Harris, who played (amogst other roles) the mother in the original Freaky Friday.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
Comic book artist Russ Heath. You may not know his name, but if you bought American comics at any point during the Silver Age, you saw his art in both content and ads. And if you're a Roy Lichtenstein fan, some of Heath's panels became Lichtenstein prints.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
After stopping treatments for brain cancer, John McCain has passed on:
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcc...81-2017-12
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
The worst thing about that, how long before the following...
"He deserved it for running against Obama." Or... "He deserved it for voting againts Trumpcare and criticising the President." Probably already happened. I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed. One day they're going to ban them.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
Actress Vanessa Marquez, Nurse Wendy Goldman in the first few seasons of E.R. She was shot by police when she pulled what appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun, but which turned out to be a BB gun, on the officers who had been sitting with her for an hour an a half during a welfare check.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... |
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