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Hollister “Holly” Moore, 69, a pioneering Philadelphia food writer/blogger, hot dog enthusiast, and lover of the city’s diners and hidden gems, died Monday, July 31, from complications from an infection. Mr. Moore went from a job in the world of fast food, where he was part of the launch of the Big Mac, to a career as a restaurateur and small business owner before finding local celebrity as a food writer. Mr. Moore was an early and avid adopter of blogging as a platform for sharing his encyclopedic knowledge of Philadelphia’s unpretentious lunch counters, taquerias, and hot-dog stands. His site “Holly Eats,” founded in 2000, featured reviews with a distinctive “grease stain” rating system he used to measure his enjoyment of a meal.

Harold Williams, Chairman of the SEC under the Carter Administration, and later the founding president of the J. Paul Getty Trust that oversaw the construction of the Getty Center on the campus of UCLA, dead at 89. SC

I just wanted to chime in that CostCo is the greatest company in the world. I"m just a customer and have no horse in the race, no stock options lol etc. It's a great goddamn company. SC

I unfortunately have 15-foot tall bamboo on my property line of my home, and it's technically a grass. So I think you are quite right Charon. SC

Why is that important or relevant? There are like a dozen other DPs just on this site, much less many of us play DPs locally with friends. A person may do plenty of research and just play a couple of those DPs. I didn't play DDP the first two years I was hanging around here. This is a thread re: research, not DDP. SC

HELLO?! Alexander Graham Bell was put on hold 95 years ago, age 75.

Big loss state-side. He was 'legendary' as college football coaches go, in the 1970s SC

FYI for Admins -- when I search 'browse - members' and then try to sort the list by anything other than 'name' an error message pops up. Maybe it's just me. But it's happened repeatedly. SC

Hormel sees potential new customers for its shelf-stable foods: cancer patients. The company known for Spam canned meats and Dinty Moore stews is promoting microwavable meals it says cater to people who are going through chemotherapy and are sensitive to certain tastes. Its Vital Cuisine meals, launched last year, are also marketed as delivering the nutrients and convenience people might want if they’re too exhausted to cook or leave the house for food. SC

I think we should all write poems, Leah has inspired me. Leah don't die I didn't choose you My 2018 team Don't wanna lose you Keep writing poems About the Big C and help me prevail next year's DDP

On his 29th BIRTHDAY no less.

Battle of Britain pilot Kenneth Wilkinson dies at 99. SC (edit -- amazingly a miss by DDP)

Like you, I had a list about 300 long and started scything bit by bit. But I don't/won't bother writing names daily. Ain't got time for dat. I'll probably spend a solid weekend in early December going over the names mentioned here and a 100 or so I've written on post-it notes all year, stuffed napkins in books, the back of time sheets for work, etc.

MM Hmmm... every once in a while gotta do 'cow/bull'' search to see if Bovine Attacks needs updating. SC

Hell no. Oh sure you had two notable (one of which was unknown) this week, but damn near all known ALS sufferers are carrying on just fine tyvm. Sadly I can't find 20 or I'd field a theme team. I came up with about 12 of note. Granted, 'of note' or 'I came up with' can be questioned cuz I never heard or discovered this tennis player, before or after death, so I"m a bozo. But a bozo that is correct in saying your comment about ALS hits is off the mark. SC

He was dealt a Loeb Blow

(As we say in the D....) Ain't no party like a Dee-troit party Two local rappers were slain yesterday following a drive-by shooting in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94 close to Livernois Avenue.Cops were first called to the scene early Sunday morning. The victims, 27-year- old Raymell Campbell and 26-year- old Dominique Brown, were pronounced dead on scene.The white Chrysler 200 they were traveling in was hit with around 30 bullets, leading to the highway being closed for nearly nine hours.Campbell was known as 47 Mell and Brown was referred to as Domo Brown. 47 Mell was a popular Detroit Emcee. Brown had received local recognition despite only recording music for a month. The pair were recent guests on Hot 107.5’s Friday Night Cypher. The two were departing from a recording studio at the time they were slain.Brown, who died on her older brother’s birthday, leaves behind a 4-year- old-son and 1-year- old daughter. SC

#38: In a Toronto suburb, a life-sized chrome cow sculpture raised two storeys high on stilts is being interpreted as ugly, strange, and scary. "We don't like it. It scares the children," resident Danny Dasilva said. The sculpture, titled Charity, Perpetuation of Perfection, is anything but perfect for people in the Cathedraltown subdivision near Highway 404 and Elgin Mills Road. Many gathered this week to demand that the recently installed artwork be removed immediately. For some, the lifelike bovine lacks taste. "I think it's strange to see the cow's butt every morning," 11-year-old Charity Crescent resident Chloe told CBC News. SC

Apparently for 1 out of 8 of you Brits, going out to see a COW for the first time in your life. What the hell is wrong with you people? SC

The Hall County (Nebraska) Sheriff's Department was called out to a car vs. cow accident on Highway 281, just south of Interstate 80 late Sunday night. Sgt. Jason Smith said the driver of the vehicle was uninjured, but the cow did die. The vehicle had to be towed away from the scene. Then hours later around 3 a.m. Monday, the sheriff's department was called out again to another car vs. cow accident. It was in the same location as the earlier accident. Nobody was injured from the vehicle. Smith said the cow did get hurt but said it was up to the rancher on what action they would take in regards to the cow. SC

Well not according to Wikipedia....but recently departed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is listed as 'dead' in the Harvard Alumni Directory. SC

Dr. David Jones, who died July 19 at 79, at times described himself as a fraud, charlatan and “court jester in the palace of science.” But the inventions that he outlined in his columns, often written under the pen name Daedalus, were informed by a doctorate in organic chemistry and a life spent in joyful pursuit of scientific progress. Beginning in 1964, he wrote weekly pieces for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He later contributed to the publication Nature, Britain’s Guardian newspaper, and to television programs in England and Germany before retiring in the early 2000s. Dunno who he is, figured some of you might. Sounds like he was interesting enough. SC

Recent evidence suggests she has stage 4 brain cancer.

I'd say forcing a child to have an unnecessary pacemaker put in is equivalent to having them undergo unnecessary chemo. SC

"The University of Tulsa has learned that former TU President Steadman Upham died Sunday, July 30, from complications following a recent surgery. He is survived by his wife, Peggy; their children, Nathan and Erin; and their grandchildren, Orion and Aadrock. (Nice names...) Upham joined TU in 2004 and served as president until 2012, and then returned later that year to resume the role at the request of the Board of Trustees. He retired in 2016 and planned to return to TU as a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. Instead he returns as an EXHIBIT in the Department of Anthropology. SC