themaninblack

Well, actually, it was a routine check-up & Norden says he is "fit as a flea".... That means he'll be dead tomorrow...

Well, I didn't choose him for my DDP team for reasons I can't remember (probably a mixture of not knowing the true extent of his illness and that he might be pulling a Biggs on the Scottish prison system). So I'll say November 14th..

Fixed, I hope.. Here's one from The Guardian Along with the one for Don Hewitt and a drummer for John Coltrane. The Guardian really are up America's arse aren't they?

Fixed, I hope..

They don't have the staying power of us X's y'see...

For those who had any doubt about a legit obit...

Astronomer Fred Hoyle, who rejected the idea of the 'Big Bang' in favour of his own 'Steady State' theory of the universe, died on this day in 2001...

He'd occasionally turn up on 'Newsnight' so I knew who was before he had the cancer...

I think this chap should be in charge...

I've been suggested one for the DDP which DL can nick if they want. But as no-one at DL seems particuarly bothered any more, I don't think it's of too much worry. By the way, TMIB, can you let me know a response to the issue I raised in my recent PM. Ta, my good man. Oh, you mean the one to lob over to RK? Right, I'll PM you the details. There's a couple of things actually...

Patrick, it's time to go my son... ..er, actually, you mind doing it, like er now, as it's your birthday and I need the points on DDP!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSSY....

No-one got Novak, so it's onto number 8......

Looks like we have a new leader in the DDP too...Tonight Matthew I'm Going To Be Badly-Torn Boy!

His pun is going to be a tricky one I think. That's if DL bothers of course...

Time's winged chariot caught up with the metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell today in 1678...

Yes. Come back after 38 games...

I didn't know Anne Bancroft appeared in Blazing Saddles. I know she was married to Mel Brooks. So we also have the Curse of Billy Bob Thornton? Something to ponder on I suppose. Is Brad Pitt going to become a widower? Part of me hopes so rather than the unthinkable alternative....

I know its Idi Amin, but any chance of naming these people for the benefit of others that don't know? I normally do (if I post anyone). Its just that TMIB didn't identify his post.... Elvis needed no introduction...

Today in 1977...

The prognosis doesn't look very good for Allen Schellenberger. I so nearly picked him for my DDP team, but changed my mind at the last minute because I wasn't conviced he'd get the right obituary. I think I replaced him with Alex Higgins. He is dead. http://consequenceofsound.net/2009/08/14/l...ger-dead-at-39/ Interestingly enough, at least according to Wikipedia, Ted Kennedy has the type of brain tumour... Its what my dad died of...

Gunn gets the bullet...

Iconoclastic playwright Bertold Brecht died today in 1956...

Anthony Wilson, co-founder of Factory Records, died 2 years ago today...

This one seems to have slipped through unnoticed... Brian Mears, chairman of Chelsea FC in the 1960s and 70s, died on July 28th...