Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

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Not to be confused with William H. Macy.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/willie-brown-hall-of-famer-and-raiders-legend-dies-at-78/ar-AAJb5wO?ocid=spartanntp

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He mixed one of my all time favorites, the Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks collaboration Orange Crate Art.

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Walter Franco - 1945-2019.

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Without Francis Tresham there would be no Civilization, even though the video game diverged from the board game as soon as it was designed.

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called then-President Jimmy Carter “a hopeless, demented, honest, well-intentioned nerd who will never get past his first administration.”

Heh, prescient.

Also:

Conyers was the only House Judiciary Committee member to have sat in on two impeachment hearings: He supported a 1972 resolution recommending President Richard Nixon’s impeachment for his conduct of the Vietnam War, but when the House clashed in 1998 over articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, Conyers said: “Impeachment was designed to rid this nation of traitors and tyrants, not attempts to cover up an extramarital affair.”

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Cancer. :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Damn!

Also, we should not forget the allegations against him, either.

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Yup, the reason he didn’t die in office.

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https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774640745/film-and-television-comic-john-witherspoon-dies-at-77

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this may not mean anything to you unless you live in a specific part of the midwest but Happy Joe, the pizza chain owner and mascot died: https://qctimes.com/news/happy-joe-whitty-died-tuesday-morning/article_c569d11f-98a7-5d01-91cb-e1ac81c5a843.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR02VmRlw8b93pQdrA1nu8HWb9DlYr0k_reOFRFggK-jPnbJxBOJGLMuqc0

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I loved Happy Joe’s when I was a kid!

Looks like they’re down to only two locations in Wisconsin these days. The one we went to when I was a kid is no more.

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crazy. yeah they used to be all over Iowa. used to be one in marshalltown when i was a kid and i loved this window where you could watch them make the pizza. i thought there was still one in cedar rapids but it must have closed too.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/books/acclaimed-novelist-ernest-gaines-dies-at-86/ar-AAJTRAP?ocid=spartanntp

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I’ll have to ask my father: I have a dim memory that he might have bought him to his university for a reading (he did, but I don’t remember if I was there for it). I have a stronger memory of watching “The Sky is Gray” in the AV room with one of his classes. He was a huge fan back then.

Could really not give two shits about what Jonathan Bel Edwards has to say about him. :snarl emoji:

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Fashion Forward!

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