Rest In Peace

karine · Post by **karine** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:54 pm

AuVoir, Kurt.

and Sol LeWitt passed away on Sunday in New York. (He changed the way many of us see art today).

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:28 am

pinemom wrote:Yes Abby, He,Im sure, enjoyed last night with Controlled Burn, we had a fundrasier for The Shiva Vista Rock Opera Stage, all the fire conclave was there. well, cept Cody, he has the first 2 opening days of "reefer madness" with Bruka Theatre. But always spinnin for Sam!
R.I.P.Sam...you are missed greatly!

Correction:

A error made on my behalf..."Shiva Vista Platform" is not/nor affliated with the "Rock Opera Stage". 2 different groups of people building 2 different platforms.

montana wildhack · Post by **montana wildhack** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:56 pm

Miss Montana Wildhack owes a HUGE debt of gratitude to Mr. Vonnegut.
Thank you for getting me through some tough times...I still giggle when I think about that drawing of an asshole!!*

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:39 pm

My blog post after learning of KVJ's death this morning.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:28 pm

#3 in the series: Roscoe Lee Brown.

I remember him mostly as the witch doctor "father" in Disney's <i>The World's Greatest Athlete</i>. Should have gotten more familiar with his work.

CoD: Fucking cancer.

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:27 am

Wow. He was in bloody everything, wasn't he?

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001975/

I can't say I recall any of the individual performances (despite seeing multiple series on that list that I watched religiously in first run), but I recognized the name the instant I saw the news articles.

Fuck cancer.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:17 pm

here's something for you purple, love cba
http://brightpathweb.net/audio/z/z/Track14.mp3

tbranom · Post by **tbranom** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:04 pm

Ranger T Cloud
Sean Murphy
May 3, 1963 - October 17, 2006

Hi everyone -

I wanted to let people know that my little brother Sean Murphy passed away October 17, 2006 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sean loved the hell out of Burning Man so I wanted to let fellow burners of his passing. Ranger T Cloud was his screenname.

Love you little brother! Miss you like you would NOT believe.

Tina

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:49 pm

I knew T-Cloud, and I'll miss him dearly. This news isn't really a huge surprise, but that doesn't mean I was ready to hear it.

RIP T-Cloud.

I was, however, extremely surprised to learn yesterday of the death of another Ranger friend of mine, Elvis.
We had some fantastic times at the Singularity regional event, and a little time together on the playa. I was dumbfounded yesterday to learn of his death, and still trying to find a way to cope with it. Not that I was as close to him as a lot of other people, but he was a part of my experience, and a little piece of my world that I sort of took for granted. Fuck.

RIP Elvis.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:42 pm

my ex-mother-in-law died. She was a graduate of the Juilliard School and was married to the band leader at West Point, who was in the film "The Long Grey Line"
Bye Lydia. Flowers on your path sweetie.

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:39 pm

Consummate showman and entertainer and key figure in the preservation of Hawaiian music, Don Ho passed last Saturday of heart failure.

Rest in peace Don and I raise a glass of bubbly for you tonight.

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:26 pm

Patty D.

FUCK CANCER.

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:39 am

Don HO....say its isnt soooo! R.I.P. Don HO!

I must come up with a lovely poi piece to celebrate his life!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:58 am

Well, IÃ m sure that if possible Scott welcomed Don, and was front seat at his firest show!

Archantael · Post by **Archantael** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:43 am

R.I.P.: Boris Yeltsin, former leader of the Soviet Union.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04 ... topstories

The CNN live shots of the coup that he crushed remains one of those TV moments you never forget if you were fortunate enough to have seen it.

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:36 pm

David Halberstam
Killed by a random car wreck, Menlo Park, CA.

Killed by random car wrecks:
My father-in-law, Chalerm Suvarnavasi
My friend Galina Meyerovich
My neighbors John Durham and Elsa Perez
My cousin Rosie Rosenzweig

Be careful out there, dear people.
RIP

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:42 pm

Archantael wrote:R.I.P.: Boris Yeltsin, former leader of the Soviet Union.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04 ... topstories

The CNN live shots of the coup that he crushed remains one of those TV moments you never forget if you were fortunate enough to have seen it.

Highlights:

He became the first freely elected president of Russia in 1991
â€¢ Yeltsin spearheaded the peaceful end of the Soviet state
â€¢ He preferred chess game of politics to work of solving economic, social problems
â€¢ In final years, Yeltsin was dogged by health problems, seemed out of touch

Health problems probably because he was an alcoholic and spend most of his presidency drunk

AIIZ

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:49 pm

Health problems probably because he was an alcoholic and spend most of his presidency drunk

... and widely hated for his sloppy personal style and for selling out to the west. On the other hand, Putin is extremely popular for being an uptight hardass.

BigCock · Post by **BigCock** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:56 pm

Bin Noddin wrote:David Halberstam

"Thousands of readers began The Best and the Brightest feeling that the U.S. must pursue the war in Vietnam until "victory" was achieved, but became convinced by Halberstam's book that the U.S. could not win and therefore should withdraw from Vietnam."

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:00 am

"I'm just bending down to tie shoelace.
And everyone is waiting round the corner."

from
'An Awfully Big Adventure'

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:59 pm

Bobby "Boris" Pickett has passed away at the age of 69.

Video of Pickett performing with Richard and the Young Lions in 2005

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:55 pm

BigCock wrote:
Bin Noddin wrote:David Halberstam
"Thousands of readers began The Best and the Brightest feeling that the U.S. must pursue the war in Vietnam until "victory" was achieved, but became convinced by Halberstam's book that the U.S. could not win and therefore should withdraw from Vietnam."

What Victory? What book? Win What at what cost?

Not our country not our independance

:x

Bobby, "Boris" Pickett made Holloween famous monster mash when I was young I thought it was something about mashed monster like mashed potatoes

Archantael · Post by **Archantael** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:14 am

Jerry Falwell....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412/

PurpleKoosh · Post by **PurpleKoosh** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:37 am

http://filkertom.livejournal.com/ wrote:An old man died. And he gets exactly that much human sympathy from me. But he does get that much.

Tom speaks for me here.

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:44 am

Boy, is there ever an epic debate going on between heaven and hell right now..... (you take him, no - You take him)

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Tue May 15, 2007 12:07 pm

mojo wrote:Boy, is there ever an epic debate going on between heaven and hell right now..... (you take him, no - You take him)

Here behind the zion curtain there is yet another place to go to. Outer darkenss.

"they don't want you and we don't want you so just go away."

I guess that is what you get for playing both ends against the middle.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:32 pm

Right now, being in political activist on Capitol Hill mode, I'm putting on a very studiedly-diplomatic game face and calmly stating, "Let's just say I didn't like him."

Inside? With apologies to my colleagues in the Pagan and Wiccan communities, I'm bouncing around singing the same song the Munchkins sang in <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>. And not the one about lollipops and lullabies, either.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:38 pm

What are you up to, activist like?

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:59 pm

Ya know, as a human I'm sorry to see him go. His family is prolly sad.

As a hate monger and power hungry synchophant acting as if he were a preacher of Gods word (Yeah, but we're talking the *good* half of God, not that other half...) who wanted to destroy the separation between church and state and attempt to bring on armageddon and destroy the world (like his minions in the unwhite house) using the government as pawns, and as the guy who took what was a good and respectable political party of PEOPLE'S RIGHTS and absolutely and totally twisted and destroyed it and made it, under the banner of god, a thing of the devil...

Yeah. You can guess. I shouldn't say, because I try to think kindly of people, But had he not tried to be a 20th century Ritchielieu, and run the world from behind the scenes and hiding behind God's name (using it constantly in vain), to do his evil hate spreading, well...

I think you know. Let's just say the world would be a much better place had he acted like the Christian he professed to be, instead of using it to bend the world. Maybe now the antiReligious Reich of his and his ilk will start to fade away...

It's like that azzole Phelps. Sorry, but when he goes up to meet his maker, and is asked "What did you do to spread love and kindness and peace among ALL of my people, the rich, the poor, the good, the evil, the str8, the gay, from all over - ALL my humans?" ", what can he say?

Yeah. Thinking about that, I *do* feel sad for him. How's *that* for irony? If I can steal a kinda famous quote, one he shoulda known and meditated on...

"Forgive him, Father, for even if he thought he knew what he was doing, he didn't have a clue. Amen."

bb

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:14 pm

gyre wrote:What are you up to, activist like?

LiveSTRONG Day.

I'm talking one-on-one to Peter DeFazio tomorrow afternoon and my senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith tomorrow morning.

I'm asking for more funding to the CDC and to co-sponsor the Harkin-Snowe Bill, aka the Cancer Detection, Treatment and Survivorship Act. It would create a cancer task force and give Medicaid coverage to young people getting colorectal cancer screening and treatment for their cancerous conditions, including pre-cancerous conditions. That's what would start out with, and graduate to other types of cancer. They're concentrating on colorectal cancer now because it's the #3 cancer killer in the country behind lung/breast (tie for first) and prostate cancer.

And Falwell's spewing on CNN right now. I need to do a 1984-style hate-in.