Sir Creep

Harvey Ball turned his creation--the smiley (face)--upside down when he died 15 years ago.

Was all excited that I knew TWO people who had the name Coao, but alas, I'm back to one. SC

Clearly glory hounding to start a thread, not to mention this cat isn't deserving of one. SC

I should start a Detroit thread. James Jamerson Jr son of the legendary Motown bass player James Jamerson and a most respected bassist in his own right passed on last week. He was 58. SC http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/25/james-jamerson-jr-bass-player-dead-at-58/82266260/

Who'd have thought he'd go before Liza? Who'd have GEST it? Man you missed a softball on that one...SC

News that's 5 minutes old: Howard Hokie Gajan, a football presence in Louisiana for more than 40 years, died Monday. For the past 15 years, Gajan was the analyst of New Orleans Saints broadcasts on WWL-AM, but he was an all-state back at Baker High School and later a productive back at LSU under Charlie McClendon and Jerry Stovall. He went from being a 10th-round draft choice the 249th pick in 1981 to a prominent runner with the Saints under Bum Phillips and Jim Mora. Gajan was diagnosed with cancer last year, and his daughter Kristin Gajan Sell told WWL Radio on Monday morning that Gajan had been moved to intensive care. RIP, big loss to Who Dat nation. SirC http://theadvocate.com/sports/saints/15220811-173/hokie-gajan-longtime-saints-radio-analyst-and-former-player-dies-at-56

Peace to all her knew her. SC

Richard Dreyfuss (see comments re: Dench)

Goodbye, Pussycat

Holy shit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS4zZXbZj9k No kidding! Nothing good was coming out of that mess

Why is this posted in Hospitalised?

Hearts, Moons, Stars, Clovers. And Caskets. Here's his work from 1972:

Douglas not mentioned anywhere in that obit. I'm not wrong, it's definitely her...look up The Peerage Page on her, the Sunday Express article where she comments on her son Dominick, etc etc. Don't get all defensive. First, if you've posted something that doesn't buttress the point being proferred, you've presented incompetent evidence. Sounds like it's the Peerage Page that you needed to link to then. The onus isn't on anyone else to go 'look up' anything. As for an article that talks about her discussing her son, again If it doesn't mention her FATHER it fails to make your point and the only reason she would be posted in this thread. I've no fucking idea who Douglas Fairbanks GRANDCHILDREN are. Now before you respond Y-Dub, re-read my first four words. SC

Some Vegas headliner/entertainer dude, Earl Turner, has blood clots in his lungs. Not sure he would obit in Vegas much less UK, I'll just put the info here. SC http://m.reviewjournal.com/norm-clarke/former-rio-headliner-hospitalized-miami And a link with some info about him... http://www.exploringlasvegas.com/shows/earl-turner.html

How come no one informed me about this guy?SC Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison term for corruption and human rights violations, has been hospitalized, officials said Monday, the latest in a string of health crises. Fujimori, 77, was transferred under heavy guard Sunday to a clinic in the capital Lima for a gastric problem and bleeding on his tongue, where he has had a recurring cancerous lesion. Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori, was transferred from his prison cell to a hospital on Wednesday to undergo neurological tests after feeling dizzy and briefly losing the strength in his legs, his doctor said. Hmmm, medical issues coming in bunches now. Will he see 2017? His name is on the front of my 2017 tickler file, I cannot lie. SC https://www.yahoo.com/news/perus-jailed-ex-leader-fujimori-hospitalized-dizzy-spells-010459858.html

Ronnie "The King" Davis died Sunday from injuries sustained Saturday in a crash during a drag racing event at Rockingham Dragway. The track said Sunday that the 66-year-old Davis, from Suwanee, Georgia, had completed a final qualifying run in the PDRA Spring Nationals when his 1963 Corvette turned left and shot across the track in front rival Mark Malcuit's car. Davis' car cleared the right-side guardwall and barrel-rolled. I felt it my obligation to post this story about barrel rolling a vehicle, given my recent past. I feel your pain bro. SC http://espn.go.com/racing/story/_/id/15179941/ronnie-king-davis-dies-injuries-sustained-drag-racing-crash

April 11: James Anthony Bailey (Barnum & Bailey Circus) quit clowning around, 110 years ago. And if anyone needed more Proof that there was thuggery going on in the rap world, it was the band D12 from my hometown Detroit. I wasn't really into them but do recall Proof's getting shot like it was yesterday--'Twas pretty big local news--10 years ago today. SC

I would I'm pretty right wing, but I think these neo-Nazi types are just clowns that make fools of themselves. It's funny how anti-semitism is actually taken more seriously nowadays when it comes from left-wingers, because right wing anti-semites are seen as a joke. The left hates Israel, and that's seen as anti-semitic? I don't get it - if you criticise the Chinese government it doesn't mean you hate Chinese people, and likewise if you criticise the Israeli government it doesn't mean you hate Jews! Getting back to the general topic, I'm surprised that there are any Nazis still alive. But then again, the last resident of St Kilda died the other day, so I suppose anything is possible... I 'think' you recovered nicely..... Cuz I was coming in here guns-a-blazin to say someone is confusing hating Israelis with hating the formation of an Isreali state. I'm referring to your comment re: the Left. I believe I fall into that category of hate. That isn't asking for the elimination of a single person, just a boundary. That's wholly apart from Right wing Naziism which calls for the opposite. Again, I think you clarified this. I'm rather dim, so.... SirC

Douglas not mentioned anywhere in that obit.

easy joke I was going to do the same Nothing funny. That's one of my New Orleams Saints players WTH!??? Big news in the Big Easy. SirC

Inge Hardison, whose bronze sculptures immortalized black historical figures, innovators and ordinary people she characterized as Our Folks, died on March 23 in Manhattan. She was 102. SC http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/arts/design/inge-hardison-actress-and-sculptor-of-heroes-dies-at-102.html?mabReward=A6&_r=0&referer=

April 10: Khalil Gibran - 85 years Natalie Schafer (Lovie (Wentworth) Howell on Gilligan's Island) - 25 years and on the same day... Martin Hannett (Joy Division producer) - 25 years

Absolutely. And if that isn't a perfect description I don't know what is. SC

Ivan Julian's cancer diagnosis (Richard Hell's guitarist) was certainly known by a couple of you, but you didn't post it? Anyway, your secret is out. *sticks tongue out* pwwwwwt! This seems right up the research trail of a couple of you GoFundMe hounds (not naming names). How dare you not share your shit. We're an autonomous collective! SC

Former state senator and Holland (Michigan) native Ed Fredricks has died at 73. SC