RIP 2019
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@taniwharugby I had met him a few times through an actor mate. I wouldn't say I knew him though.
Seemed like the life of the party guy. He and Sela Alo came and hosted a Pacifica Festival on the Gold Coast once and they were very funny together and I loved their S'N'P videos on the differences between Islanders and Palagi.
Just such a waste of talent and life. I feel so bad for his daughter as well as his wider family. Kids need their fathers(and mothers obviously) and it's so hard to understand this thing that he has done. But unless you are going through this, this horrible illness, it's impossible to understand.
For gods sake check on a mate you're worried about. Just pick up the phone, stop by. Let them know you're there.
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@raznomore yeah I attended an event a few years back and he was one of the MC's, and seemed such a confident and happy guy, easy to chat to...you just cannot tell what is going on inside though...that is the scary part, how do you reach out to someone who seems to have it all and be happy with it...
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@raznomore said in RIP 2019:
@taniwharugby I had met him a few times through an actor mate. I wouldn't say I knew him though.
Seemed like the life of the party guy. He and Sela Alo came and hosted a Pacifica Festival on the Gold Coast once and they were very funny together and I loved their S'N'P videos on the differences between Islanders and Palagi.
Just such a waste of talent and life. I feel so bad for his daughter as well as his wider family. Kids need their fathers(and mothers obviously) and it's so hard to understand this thing that he has done. But unless you are going through this, this horrible illness, it's impossible to understand.
For gods sake check on a mate you're worried about. Just pick up the phone, stop by. Let them know you're there.
Was he one of the guys in all the "Sharpen Up" Lift ads?
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@raznomore said in RIP 2019:
@taniwharugby I had met him a few times through an actor mate. I wouldn't say I knew him though.
Seemed like the life of the party guy. He and Sela Alo came and hosted a Pacifica Festival on the Gold Coast once and they were very funny together and I loved their S'N'P videos on the differences between Islanders and Palagi.
Just such a waste of talent and life. I feel so bad for his daughter as well as his wider family. Kids need their fathers(and mothers obviously) and it's so hard to understand this thing that he has done. But unless you are going through this, this horrible illness, it's impossible to understand.
For gods sake check on a mate you're worried about. Just pick up the phone, stop by. Let them know you're there.
Was he one of the guys in all the "Sharpen Up" Lift ads?
Yes. Comedy gold
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Goro Shimura, the mathematician whose insights provided the foundation for the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and led to tools widely used in modern cryptography, died on May 3.
Goro Shimura, a 'giant' of number theory, dies at 89
Goro Shimura, Princeton's Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, died on Friday, May 3, at the age of 89.
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@Stockcar86 said in RIP 2019:
Goro Shimura, the mathematician whose insights provided the foundation for the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and led to tools widely used in modern cryptography, died on May 3.
Goro Shimura, a 'giant' of number theory, dies at 89
Goro Shimura, Princeton's Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, died on Friday, May 3, at the age of 89.
Wasn’t he the bad guy in Mortal Kombat?
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Too young. I didn't know he was ill
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But who will pour the tea now? asked Mog, sadly
There’s an empty space at the table between a forgetful cat and a Tiger today.
Thursday 23 May 2019 by Davytoast
But who will pour the tea now? asked Mog, sadlyThere’s an empty space at the table between a forgetful cat and a Tiger today.
Judith Kerr was very tired and went to sleep forever this morning, leaving a body of work which touched the lives of every child who read them in ways which are difficult to express but were lifelong.
Even a slightly bewildered and dozy cat couldn’t forget her simple tales, and she deserved a medal for helping entire families love books together – and got one, being awarded an OBE in 2012.
As well as creating a brace of daft but harmless felines, Judith worked tirelessly to ensure the world didn’t forget her own experiences as a refugee from Nazi Germany, writing books describing the experience from a child’s perspective, and travelling to speak widely about it.
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit managed to maintain a childlike simplicity and view of the world whilst describing the effects of flight, confusion and fear in terms that were stark and understandable to junior readers, and may well be the first experience of a wider political world that many readers encounter.
In all of this, her message was always People do die, and you do lose them, but you should get on with your own lives.
“It’s a good thing I drank all the tea in the pot, and all the orange juice, and all of daddy’s beer, and all the water in the tap,” said the Tiger.
“Or I wouldn’t be full enough for all these tears.”
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Bill Buckner died today. Only 69. Of dementia.
It makes me really sad. The poor guy had to carry the legacy of the Boston Red Sox curse for decades, pretty much the poster-boy for the biggest boner in American sports history. He had to iive with it. This was a guy who was an All Star, played in the Big Leagues for 22 seasons, won a Batting Title (!!) ffs, and was forced to play out of position with destroyed knees and all anybody wants to remember is that play, even though it was pitcher Bob Stanley who rightly should have lived with the goat horns, he was the fuckup who blew the World Series, not Bill Buckner.
So, it’s a sad day. R.I.P. Bill. You were a great ballplayer, by all opinion a decent man, and you deserved better.
Bill Buckner’s legacy sadly took far too long to change
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Buckner was chased out of Boston. He came back to Fenway for a Sox encore, to cheers, in 1990, briefly, but after he retired he had to seek asylum in Idaho to forsake the maddening crowd. He spoke later of a constant bitterness that filled him. Twenty-two years of elegant baseball service, reduced to 22 seconds, the worst 22 seconds of his career.
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Bill Buckner's legacy sadly took far too long to change
The fortunate part was that there really was a second act for Bill Buckner, one that came so many years after the moment that would unfairly underline his brilliant baseball career, the instant a...
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I just saw Bob Hawke died a couple of weeks ago (Usually I find out on here first)
Always liked watching him chop a beer at the cricket
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Former Arsenal, Atletico Mardid, Real Mardid, Seville and Spain footballer Jose Antoni Reyes has been killed in a car crash:
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Roky Erickson, the genius brains behind The 13th Floor Elevators and the birth of psychedelic music, died yesterday at the tender age of 71.
A good obit & backgrounder at the link below, with a nice testimony from ZZ Top ‘s Billy Gibbons.
We’re gonna miss him.
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From that obit:
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A 2003 American-Statesman article by Andrea Ball recapped what happened in the late 1960s, after Erickson was arrested on marijuana charges: “He spent several years at Rusk State Hospital, which had a maximum-security unit for the criminally insane. While he was there, doctors gave him mood-stabilizing drugs and administered electroshock therapy. Roky spent the next three decades drifting between reality and insanity. During the good times, he married, had children and produced music. The bad times left him paralyzed by auditory hallucinations and paranoia.”
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Different times.
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Despite being a kid brought up on the amazing special effects of Star Wars ( and lets be honest everything looked cheap and nasty in comparison ) I always quite enjoyed this show even though it had polystyrene monsters and cardboard walls. This guy always cracked me up with his cynical, dry wit. RIP Avon.
