Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

Hard to imagine a finer performance than Todd Tomorrow in Polyester.

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Also Lust in the Dust.

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More importantly, Polyester!

Which @AbelardLindsay mentioned… derp! Still, look at that couple! Beautiful!

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A nice behind-the-scenes piece on his sound effects from last year:


Shh Shh

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Ah, balls…

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/633942859/tomasz-stanko-a-trumpeter-whose-music-spoke-to-freedom-has-died

(cued to 01:03:10)

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Josip Peruzovic, better known as Nikolai Volkoff died this week:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/05/635832620/remembering-nikolai-volkoff-wrestlings-soviet-villain

And:

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His food and cooking inspired me (second only to Julia Child). My copy of his cookbook has many food-stained pages.

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Trying to chart the trend I’ve concluded that everyone who has ever done any good thing will die in 2019, and then it will just be me and Trumpies left on the planet.

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So, Aretha, Kofi Annan, and Fakir Musafar.

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My kids and their guests started jumping around the room just now, when I played this out loud. Guess I was the only one who’d never heard it before… (I knew who the character was, though.)

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Here’s a longer version of the same song to drive your kids completely mental.

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