Sir Creep

ANOTHER music legend. 2017 please quit taking all these music legends from us. (headline calls him a legend....however opening sentence refers to him as a pioneer. I mean it'll be a fekkin national holiday) SC

We always laugh at the obits, particularly in the music industry, zealously and casually throwing the epithet 'legend' out there. If only there were dozens of music 'legends' lmao. And here we have another one. Legend Kenny Shields of the legendary band Streetheart from that legendary mecca of legendary music, Winnipeg. Contains a video of them singing their legendary hits. This one was especially flippant, calling Shields 'the Mick Jaggar of Winnipeg'. I guess every town has one. SC

Any chance they mention Sasha Lakovich in there somewhere? smh

That is some local area band, don't we have any litmus test at all or can we post anyone from any band ever? Check your source 'Nashville Scene' I mean give me a break. Post whore. SC

Woman named Zhang vlogs the benefits of eating aloe vera, and does so.....only it's a rare poisonous plant instead, and is rushed to hospital. Oopsie. SC

Maine philanthropist and former Dexter Shoe Co. executive Peter Alfond died Monday from malaria contracted during a recent trip to Africa, according to news accounts and his family's foundation. He was 65. A scion of one of Maine’s best-known families, Alfond contracted the disease while traveling with his family. Alfond for many years supported educational and healthcare causes through the Peter Alfond Foundaiton — including the donation of $4 million to MaineGeneral Medial Center, to establish the Healthy Living Resource Center, which encourages healthier eating and exercise. What luck, donates $$$ to a medical center and dies from some half-ass disease in a place that doesn't have one. SC

Jimmy Spitz, a longtime distribution executive who worked for years at a number of studios and is the father of WME motion picture agent Jason Spitz, Lionsgate domestic distribution president David Spitz and 20th Century Fox VP/in-theater marketing Susie Cotliar, died Monday after a long illness. SC

America’s Got Talent is sharing the performance video of a contestant who died in a car crash before his audition could make it to air. Dr. Brandon Rogers died in a Maryland car crash on June 11. (Seems this was posted but search finds nothing) SC

The man who established the Black Power gang in the 1970s, Reitu Harris, has died. As the founding president Harris created the gang to help Māori boys who had been in state care, and were disconnected from their marae and iwi. SC

After a long and distinguished career in journalism that included serving as editor in chief of USA TODAY, John Quinn died Tuesday in Rhode Island. His health had been failing for some time before he returned to the hospital Monday, according to those close to him and his family. He died among family Tuesday afternoon. Along with having been top editor of USA TODAY, Quinn was also the president of the Gannett News Service and later the vice president of news at Gannett Co. Inc. before retiring in 1990. SC

Goddamn idiot. You, not Trump, Jr. SC

Now a paracorpse

Madison Coe, 14, was having a bath at her home in Lovington, New Mexico, when the accident happened on Sunday morning. According to her family, the 14-year-old had either plugged her phone in or tried to use her phone, which was already plugged in, while she sat in the bath, causing her to electrocute herself. SC

#35: The Manila Zoo is honoring the life of Bertha, its former longest-living resident. The female hippo, who lived at the Philippine zoo since it opened in 1959, was found dead in her enclosure on Friday. She was 65 years old, and was believed to be the oldest hippopotamus in captivity. (Her age can’t be officially, independently verified as the zoo lost Bertha’s records.) SC

#34: Surely this was an agonizingly slow death. The Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero reported Monday that its two-toed sloth named "Rayne" was found dead in his enclosure on Sunday morning. Rayne was put on public exhibit at the zoo in June. Zookeepers found him dead during their early morning rounds. They believe the four-year-old sloth passed away sometime Saturday night of a possible heart attack. SC

Kenneth Silverman, whose “The Life and Times of Cotton Mather,” a deeply researched, lively biography of the great Puritan preacher, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1985, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was complications of a respiratory illness. SC

Sounds like she has a hell of a singing career ahead of her.

That one liner has been played out. See O.P. about his father. But you got three likes, so there's that.

That was bizarre -- thanks for head's up. It's been addressed. SC

A Louisiana pioneer in the shipbuilding industry has died. John Parker Conrad, Sr., founder of Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, has died at the age of 101. He passed away on July 6, 2017, surrounded by friends and family in his home. SC

Pearl Harbor survivor Simon Nasario dies at 98. "Born on Oct. 18, 1918, Nasario was awakened by the first wave of Japanese planes on their way to bomb Ewa Airfield on the island of Oahu. During that time, Nasario was enjoying his first weekend leave at his grandmother’s home across the street from the airfield." SC

A well-known homeless man who had a cheeky smile and lovable nature died on a bench in an Auckland cemetery. Keith Johnson, aged 57, died on the same bench he had sat on most days for the past four years in St Peter's cemetery in Onehunga on July 1. A relatively lengthy write-up actually. SC

Darrall Imhoff, the all-American center who led the University of California to the 1959 N.C.A.A. tournament basketball championship and to the runner-up spot the next season, played on a gold-medal-winning United States Olympic team and then had a long career in the NBA, died on Friday in Bend, Ore. He was 78. Cause was a heart attack.| SC

Dead. I so highly doubted his chance to obit I left him alone. I suspect GCReptile felt the same. Guess we will see. SC

HA HA HA..... Treatable and curable. I LOV V V V E when they say it! Fucking DEAD. SC