Spade_Cooley

Some of us kind of have an advantage due to our jobs...

They're replacing a Labour candidate who hadn't been to a meeting for six months. http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderland/sunderland-councillor-loses-seat-after-failing-to-attend-a-single-meeting-for-six-months-1-8259792. There was a turn out of 28.6% in the May 2016 council election; reduced to 23.8% last night. Hardly going to start a revolution... I know that but this is Sunderland, they don't count Labour votes there they weigh them.

I mean, Lib Dems took a council seat in fucking SUNDERLAND of all places last night, Labour have managed to manoeuvre themselves into a place where they're being picked off on both sides and have no weapons to deal with it. It's like an old shoot-em-up video game and they're the end-of-level boss just shedding body parts all over the place.

Wonder if they'll put in one of their big guns (maybe even Nuttall himself?) for the seat, or whether they figure that will lead to the old problem of Lib Dems and Greens reluctantly switching their tactical votes to Labour to keep a Kipper out?

Tristram Hunt was the one who crossed a picket line to give a lecture about the importance of Marxism, which is possibly the most perfect metaphor for the modern Labour party imaginable.

Ridiculous statement, Natalie Wood was well over the age of 16.

And in further Facebook wrestler news, Perry Saturn looks like absolute shit.

Fred Ottman hospitalised, still Facebooking though.

Can't have been illness as none of the news orgs had an obituary of him ready to go, gonna assume heart attack.

Bad few weeks for Elton John.

Can we not knock it?

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-aston-villa-england-boss-12443209

Rumours about Graham Taylor???

Emergency heart surgery for Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni

Fabrizio De André, the Italian Bob Dylan except he could actually sing, died today in 1999. Bocca di Rosa

So urinating Russian prozzies, huh?

Timothy Well actually hadn't died then, it was a misreport by WWC. He is dead now though.

Good shout. Do you think it had anything to do with the way she was managed? It wouldn't be the first time somebody's career was all but ended when their agents were such arseholes nobody wanted to deal with them. I'd assume management blunders, yeah. Famously back in the 80s Cyndi Lauper's management deliberately kept her away from the TV/radio/all media for 18 months because they thought that the public would suffer Madonna exhaustion and Cyndi could return and claim the Queen of Pop throne unopposed. Whoops.

James and Zevon (perhaps not so much Rawls) were both canonical musicians, regarded as among - if not the - best in their respective fields and had huge fanbases both in life and death. Sarstedt sang the worst fucking song ever.

Was going to give this a wide berth, but if DDT's in I suppose I have to aim for a league and cup double around these parts. I do, however, reserve the right to field a youth team in these fixtures to give some unheralded players pitch time.

Only other occasion I can think of is the 2012 Emmys "In Memoriam" reel, which used one clip for both Ron Palillo and Robert Hegyes (of Welcome Back Kotter). Not exactly names on the Fisher/Reynolds level though, they were tossed away at around 1:30.

Dunno, but this is why I'm gonna shove a few quid on Denzel beating Gosling to the Best Actor gong this year.

Not gonna like, McGuinness' death will bring some great new opportunities for arguing on the internet. Chucky allah.

At least this time he gave us a 2 hour warning of his resignation taking effect at 5:00pm. Better than when he used to phone in with only a 10 minute warning.

This is the speech we're talking about, for the record. He looks 20 years older than he is, lung cancer?