Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

I’m fairly certain he died of cancer… could be complications from the flu and cancer… but he apparently got a recurrence last year.

Fuck no.

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Now making the afterlife a more creepy place.

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aw… we can thank him for introducing the world to the great Jeffery Combs, who is fantastic.

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A couple of nice quotes about the man:

And Ian MacKaye:
https://www.remhq.com/news/bill-rieflin-by-ian-mackaye/
We may be drifting into legend here…

Trey Gunn:

Okay, one more, Chris Connelly:
https://chrisconnelly.com/news/news/2020/03/tom-donny-head-for-potatoes/

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I seem to recall seeing him in all sorts of mid-1980s movies. For me, he’ll be best remembered as Rosanna Arquette’s sleazy hot tub king husband in Desperately Seeking Susan.

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He was a TV personality very dear to the children of my generation. Coronavirus killed him.

I have very good memories of his TV show. He taught many boys and girls to draw, except me, because I am incompetent.

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RIP to one of the great leaders of the classical civil rights movement:

We’re all better off for his activism. One of those people who made the world a better place.

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Shit. This topic is going to start filling up. Shit awful virus and fucking atrocious libertarian response.

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https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/03/30/greek-resistance-hero-manolis-glezos-dies-at-98/

One of the men who took the swastika flag off the Acropolis in 1941.

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Not covid-19 related, but still sad. I have fond memories of reading Strega Nona as a child!

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Aw. We have Strega Nona, and just got this as part of a slew of dragon-themed books for the Ratel kit.

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I grew up reading Asterix and Obelix. May he enjoy a perpetual boar roast in the sky forever licked by dogmatix!

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Oh no, what a loss!!

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