Archive for the 'obituary' Category
malcolm mclaren, RIP
Malcolm McLaren may have been a rock-n-roll swindler (among other things), and I owe him my sanity. Let me explain.
In 1983, I was a lonely angry not-quite-yet-a-teenager. i was small for my age, and a late bloomer (puberty didn’t really kick in until summer 1984). i hated my parents, my school, and everything else. [...]
SCOTUS Decision
So the Supreme Court has spoken, and America is no longer a nation, but a subsidiary of the the Corporation. The Democracy Experiment was fun while it lasted, but apparently we were not able to keep our Republic, as Franklin had hoped.
It’s gonna be quite a ride for the foreseeable future, because if this [...]
Jack Cooke, the Norton Flash, RIP
jack Cooke, longtime bass player for Ralph Stanley, has died:
We have just learned that Jack Cooke, long-time member of Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away last night (12/1) after suffering a massive heart attack.
Cooke performed with The Stanley Brothers in the 1950s before going to work for Bill Monroe from 1956-1960. He [...]
My 5th Grade Teacher Died and His Obituary is Fascinating.
A friend from elementary school emailed me, letting me know our 5th grade teacher, Hugh Moore, had died. it was a bit of a shock, not so much because his death was unexpected, but because I thought he had passed away long ago. He was in his fifties when he was my teacher, and [...]
Read More..>>jim carroll, rip
RIP, Jim. A sad day for everyone.
Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine
Those are people who died, [...]
Sad Today
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Not to get all emotional over a politician, but Ted Kennedy was one of the good ones. I am nervous about what his gutless spineless corporate-fellating colleagues in the Senate will do to his health care reform bill now that he is gone.
Read More..>>Kennedy
what a way to start the day.
Read More..>>Les Paul, RIP
who says only the good die young? Les made it to 94.
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
Here he is at 91:
I never got a chance to see Les (almost did in the 1990s, but the cover was wicked steep).
Read More..>>Steven Wells
Steven Wells, one of the main reasons I read the Philly Weekly, has died, and Philadelphia is the poorer for it.
Here’s his first piece on dealing with the US health care system (Steve was british). Not for the faint of heart or stomach, but a must-read anyway.
The ER doctor says he wants to drill a [...]
If the Inky’s Just Going to Publish Crap…
…why bother saving it?
Seriously: why should Philadelphians tolerate a newspaper that devotes its op-ed pages to the worst of the worst, granting a megaphone to charlatans and frauds like John Yoo and Rick Santorum…
But since then, we’ve not only learned more about Yoo’s torture advocacy, but that Justice Department investigators have uncovered “sloppy legal analysis, [...]
