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The actress Cloris Leachman is ninety-fucking-two, as she would say, and hasn't got a thread like 4 of her Mary Tyler Moore Show chums. She's one of the few people with a truly instantly recognisable name à la Zsa Zsa. Her illustrious career goes back 70 years and has seen her win a whopping 8 Emmys. Her role in The Last Picture Show bagged her an Oscar. Seems deathlisty. That 2015 photo above inspired a "Sad Last Days" article. She had hurt her ankle a few days before the picture was taken, plus the National Enquirer writers have clearly never seen an 89-year-old woman without makeup. This is her at her most recent red carpet event on 2nd March of this year: She is a strict vegetarian and leads an active lifestyle. In the 2010s alone she has made 86 film/TV appearances. One of those is The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, a God-awful POS spawn-of-satan "what moron thought that was a good idea" type of film. It stands as the lowest-grossing film EVER released in >2k theatres. She's back on track now, with films planned for as far ahead as 2020. I believe and hope she'll be around for longer than that, but she should be on people's radar.

Update as I watch GLOW season 2. Put the strap on Welfare Queen brother, she's ready.

Dead so Far: Giuseppina Projetto - 6 July - No Obit. Alan Gilzean - 8 July - Obit. Lord Peter Carrington - 9 July - Obit. Clive King - 10 July - Obit. Lindy Remigino - 11 July - No Obit. Chiyo Miyako - 22 July - No Obit. msc: 105 Points (Carrington) (Sub: Gilzean [5 Hearts]) Cards Played: Bibliogryphon: 100 Points (C. King) Cards Played: Toast: 100 Points (Carrington) Cards Played: Sir Creep: 13 Points (Sub: Carrington: [K Hearts]) Everbody Else: Zero

I'm working the merch table for Wreckless Eric tonight. Will try to take a photo if I can sneak to the front.

Point of this game is for the random cards you are dealt to determine the outcome. Jokers and uniques were deliberately excluded to lessen the control players have on the result. That's why it's "fun"...I guess....

Kim Il-Sung was promoted from Supreme Leader to (dead) Eternal President of North Korea on this day 24 years ago, aged 82. For political reasons, I must point out that Kim Il-Sung was a Leader so dear and great and was the perfect incarnation of the appearance that a leader should have and was a glorious general who descended from heaven who has now ascended back there to enrich it but will eternally remain a superior person in the hearts of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and I want to live please. Look how brilliant the man is/was/is.

Home of Great delicacies.

Back in the day I had a brilliant compilation album called 'That Summer' which included 'Whole Wide World'. I played it to death. I think it was a film soundtrack. It was never released on CD, I'd buy it again if it was.

Wee Wee? Makes former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Dick Headlee sound like John Doe. She seriously walked around with that goddamn name?

For all he achieved there, his greatest moments were afore Spurs. Winning the Scottish League and getting to the semifinal of the European Cup. With Dundee. There used to be a trivia q afore the Champions League made it piss easy for clubs with cash. * what 4 cities have had two different European Cup semifinalists? Answer / Madrid, Milan, Glasgow and Dundee. ** Everton might have had a shot but didn't get a chance because of their neighbours. Gilzean never really cut it at international level, but that more down to be of ages with Law. No slight on him at all.

Update #15 Hits: 24 May - David Shutts (b. 1965) - DeathImpends 27 June - Joe Jackson (b. 1928) - Gooseberry Crumble 29 June - Matt Cappotelli (b. 1979) - FixedBusiness, msc, Sean, drol, Joey Russ, Book, gcreptile, Captain Chorizo, DeathImpends, DevonDeathTrip, Prophet 2 July - Henry Butler (b. 1949) - DevonDeathTrip Scoreboard: gcreptile 968 msc 812 DeathImpends 794 CaptainChorizo 784 drol 737 Joey Russ 715 Grim Up North 695 Book 679 Sean 672 DevonDeathTrip 653 Prophet 620 FixedBusiness 458 Banana 412 The Unknown Man 338 Toast 319 Torva Messor 251 Wormfarmer 204 John Key 178 YoungWillz 164 Gooseberry Crumble 128 Grigori 80 mr.whit 43 Bibliogryphon 38 DeathImpends makes it onto the podium thanks to the David Shutts obit. A Colin Butts obit would make him a definite contender for the title... Meanwhile, I updated the masterlist for the transfers a couple days ago. Fixed Joey's mistake (I appreciate his honesty). If anyone else has an error, please let me know.

Getting warmer

To be fair, one of the plans the authorities presented was to simply let them wait possibly months with oxygen and supplies while workers found a less dangerous pathway out other than diving. I assume that's when Musk decided he had the time to create a hole? Regardless, I don't think the wait game is a viable option. Still, with a hole I'm not sure they'll be able to get out, 1km seems very high for them to be lifted out.

BBC obit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44723987

Already made a thread for this, and it has a poll too:

Presumably. Yep. To any single-minded individual with sod all knowledge of the area. It’s still you’re, by the way. But you got it third time lucky, so there’s hope for you yet. Presumably. Though we know how wrong presumptions can be.

FTFY

Saw in the paper today that Brian (Bwian) Waldon - of Weekend World fame about 40 years ago - is still alive; 86 tomorrow.

Boooom for the Motherland. 1 up. I've not been this worried over a semi since Broke Back Mountain

The song's genius, but it was only meant to refer to Euro 96 which was the first (and only) international football tournament hosted by England since 1966. That's what "Football's coming home" meant, together with the idea that football ('soccer' if you must) was invented in England. 'Thirty years of hurt' is a great line because of the assonance, which can't be replicated by any other number. So it's no longer strictly relevant, but it caught the imagination like no other footy song before or since, so I'm afraid you're all stuck with it.

So - Life is Beautiful and you - kind of - float above the grim facts, or summat, right?

Syd Barrett joined the great recording studio in the sky on this day 12 years ago, aged 60.

Garry Lowe, bassist for the Canadian blues reggae rock band Big Sugar, has died. He was 65. http://www.iheartradio.ca/news/big-sugar-bassist-garry-lowe-dies-at-65-1.4022965

And Steve Ditko is being discussed in Stan Lee's thread........ why exactly?