Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

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Well, now you know. She got cancer and died.

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The most important were the skeletons of a little-known early tetrapod, Acanthostega. What they revealed was that the earliest tetrapods retained fish-like internal gills and had many fingers and toes.

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Time to watch Time Bandits again, I think.

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Fuck! I will miss him.

I read his first book when I was what, maybe 8?

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Based on his birth year, that means he was around 28 when he played Strutter:
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I wonder if they got the birth year right. Or maybe that’s just how he looked. (Or how great the makeup artist was etc. etc.)

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Apparently, Yuri Gagarin’s widow passed away last month:

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SMBC



XKCD

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This is heartbreaking.

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Moraes Moreira, Brazilian singer.

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Sounds like he could have been one of the painters Vonnegut drew from in Bluebeard.

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For local definitions of the word “celebrity”, but still important to many here in Chicago:

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Sorry to hear the news – but thanks for the music, this is new to me. Went right on the list.

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Rubem Fonseca, brazilian writer.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/books/thugs-who-know-their-greek.html

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Oh no!

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Hello.

Glad you liked. Moraes Moreira was a great musician. His old musical group, Novos Baianos, was very creative and had great albums.

I don’t want to leave the scope of this post, but here are some links to his other songs.

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