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Heh, never thought of that one as balearic dance, but yeah, the 20 minute long guitar part does convey that feeling. The german prog bloke is Manuel Göttsching. Obitable guy - 68 years old now.

DJ Jose Padilla is a solo hit for me here (QO in the disc jockey thread).

As we have known before, hospice in the USA means less than six months life expectancy. His wife wants to keep us updated, so it's probably not an immediate 2-3 day situation. But will he outlast the year?

Tom Maschler has been blown away by the wind: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/16/tom-maschler-obituary

His lawyers say he's not going to survive prison because of numerous health issues: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8848949/Harvey-Weinsteins-lawyers-say-broke-die-prison-not-released.html They say, he's going blind (like Bill Cosby?), suffers from diabetes and an enlarged prostate.

Man who was rescued from mortuary freezer because he was though to be dead, dies just a few days after the rescue: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54566167 Although in these resurrection cases....maybe he just "needed" to be "alive" to change a will or something?

Okay, I'm posting it because I'm seeing him on TV right now (don't ask).. ..Radio host / regular presence on Fox News / stereotype conservative political grifter Dan Bongino had a big tumor in his head removed (can't have been his brain): https://www.survivornet.com/articles/radio-host-dan-bongino-updates-fans-on-his-health-following-surgery-to-remove-tumor-doesnt-skip-a-beat-at-work/ It's probably advanced lymphoma but he's optimistic about the future.

Dianne Feinstein probably wonders why that handsome, young Lindsay Graham never brings a girlfriend home.

Our "99 red balloons" national treasure Nena "doesn't want to be hypnotized and be pulled down into the darkness": https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/panorama/popsaengerin-verwirrt-mit-aussage-zu-corona-nena-loest-spekulationen-um-verschwoerungstheorien-aus/26277878.html Her statement gets a LIKE from Germany's former no. 1 r'n'b/rapper Xavier Naidoo (six no.1 studio albums, 3 no.1 live albums). He's now a major conspiracy theorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Naidoo Also worth a mention is our "Berlin hipster vegan celebrity chef"-turned right-wing icon and chief denier Attila Hildmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_Hildmann

Former Exeter chiefs player Ian Stewart has died at 53: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/former-exeter-chiefs-player-passes-4607220 I knew he had been ill for a while, but he seemed to have disappeared.

Okay, I'm going through my "100% chance of dying people" on the longlist.... ...Lewis Sewell, upcoming theatre actor, sadly died in late August at age 18: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-54286728 ...Pete Huckle, a chef with BBC local coverage already died in 2019 - but only his mother's blog tells about it in 2020: http://robertahuckle.com/projects.html ... Marc Humphries, cancer dad who played cricket, dead in August: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/heartache-wonderful-plymouth-dad-dies-4418499 Glasgow cancer woman Ashley Meehan already died in late 2019: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-sent-home-painkillers-after-21166877 Howell Phillips...popular teacher in Plymouth died on October 1st: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/tributes-howell-phillips-welsh-rugby-4582817

Ha, I also just realized that I confused this with the six names in six months pool... sorry...

Had to check if my first instinct was right, and yes, right-wing actor Scott Baio is an "anti-masker": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8785867/amp/Anti-masker-Scott-Baio-hits-shutting-film-production-coronavirus-breaches.html

Wow Biblio, you're running away with this!

The second wave of the Spanish Flu was worse than the first one. Maybe for psychological reasons? People could accept the singularity of the pandemic in March/April. People were willing to make temporary sacrifices and the virus was beaten back. But now, we are not willing, and not prepared, and maybe not even able, to do it again. People want a return to normal. They might have become numb to the danger, e.g. "we can live with it". And the economy just survived the first lockdown, but a second one makes the whole construct collapse. Germany has had these economic buffers for such an event. But all the aid programs are running out. The whole leisure economy is going to collapse in the winter. Many small businesses are going to close. The politicians are unwilling the go into debt again - they might not even be able to! A new wave of hundreds of billions of euros or dollars of new debt might lead to too much inflation.

Conchata Ferrell a duo for Sir Creep and me after a QO. Maybe that might incite an update? Edit: https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/13/two-half-men-actress-conchata-ferrell-dies-aged-77-13417757/

He had a somewhat bizarre morning show appearance this morning, slurring his words and dozing off.... says he was tired.... or is it the beginning of something worse? https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/13/mike-tyson-interview-sleep-boxer-good-morning-britain/

Last week there were some rumours of a heavy illness on spanish-speaking sites, but he did appear on a conference then. Still, hes slowly getting there...

And another tweet... David Crosby apparently wasn't too impressed with Eddie Van Halen: https://mobile.twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/1315020778656522240

Florida State university coaching legend Bobby Bowden has Covid at age 90, but is feeling good. Usually, I mostly ignore college football people, but he gets TMZ coverage: https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/12/florida-state-legend-bobby-bowden-doing-great-after-positive-covid-19/

I do have to admit that Donald Trump is a remarkable personality, and in some sense the most remarkable personality in the history of the world. Never before has one single person overwhelmed the whole world to this extent with their own destructive, corrupting tendencies and their unique set of personal grievances and deficiencies. Even on this forum!

Watching Amy Coney Barrett all day would kill me, too.

QO for DDP, DbN, etc... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/12905668/vasili-kulkov-millwall-benfica-cancer/

Ah, the thread to discuss watersports, I mean, motorsports.

Former president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari hospitalised for various illnesses, possibly related to his corruption trial? https://www.dawn.com/news/1584502/zardari-unwell-moved-to-private-hospital He's appeared on the forum for years here and there, as a possible assassination target.