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4 hits, okay, that's an update... also, there's nothing else to do. New hits: Kenny Rogers, Anton Coppola, Suzy Delair and Martino Sclavi, who puts me back into pole position. Rank Team Points 1 gcreptile 472 2 Death Impends 431 3 Banana 427 4 RadGuy 392 5 Cpt. Chorizo 377 6 Clorox Bleachman 369 6 Joey Russ 369 8 Grave Danger 366 9 The Quim Reaper 344 10 Deadsox 337 11 John Key 333 12 Skinny Kiltrunner 323 13 msc 319 14 drol 306 15 The Unknown Man 304 16 The Mad Hatter 291 17 Torva Messor 289 18 JiroemonKimura 287 19 Book 286 20 Sir Creep 248 21 theoldlady 245 22 Etushispushingupdaisies 239 22 Toast 239 24 Sean 216 25 YoungWillz 208 25 DevonDeathTrip 208 27 The Old Crem 194 28 Kenny 149 29 Chilean Way 138 30 markb4 101 30 Great Uncle Bulgaria 101 32 Bibliogryphon 92 33 Gooseberry Crumble 88 34 ThePrematureBurial 75 35 Pedro67 57

Irish show horse rider Rory Gilsenan has now received coverage from a QO outfit, but is basically only being described as "man with cancer". https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-diagnosed-aggressive-brain-tumour-21696234 Maybe another C-team pick of mine with main team potential.

Never watched it, I am ashamed to admit. It was a time when you either watched Deep Space Nine or Babylon Five, but rarely both. But some critics see similarities between the latter and The Expanse.

Obvious answer: Giovanni Boccaccio - Decamerone

I finished the four seasons (so far) of the hard sci-fi opera The Expanse.... and bought the first book of the literary inspiration (Leviathan Wakes). Let's see if I have to buy them all... I can recommend the series. It's a bit heady and dry sometimes (not quite the spectacle of Star Wars, or the clean fun of Star Trek). So binge watching might be a bit straining, but when it's good, it's good... and eventually, it starts looking like the Mass Effect video game series...especially like the somewhat underrated spin-off Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Maybe we have to create a stickied thread for the newcomers to tell which names do not need to be suggested anymore... because we are kind of the experts on this. Edit: Reaction to the Norman Lloyd mention

Lol, yes indeed they are. Get yourself informed.

Thanks, that's 3 new hits so far. Anton Coppola also got a NYT obit, plus Martino Sclavi. Maybe tomorrow or Sunday.

His wife has the virus. Possibly dangerous contagion? https://theboot.com/john-prine-wife-fiona-has-coronavirus/

Yuri Gagarin''s widow Valentina died recently at 84: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/widow-yuri-gagarin-human-space-dies-84-69647839 I only noticed it because people on Reddit were thinking that it might be a covered up death by coronavirus (no details given).

Congolese music "legend" Aurlus Mabélé dead at 67 - I did not know him: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51978459

Nooo.. not Manu Dibango! Sir Creep, Dibango's hit "Soul Makossa" is regarded as the first disco song ever. Edit: Also, listen to it to see where Michael Jackson's "Wanna be starting something" stole from.

With a QO it puts RadGuy in the DDP lead, I think. Edit: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/18/kathy-griffins-mother-maggie-dies-aged-99-chrissy-teigen-pays-tribute-12415148/

Screenwriter (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) and director Paul Schrader would rather die on the job than having it interrupted by the Coronavirus. In his own words he's old and asthmatic: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/17/paul-schrader-slams-coronavirus-film-shutdown-says-hed-rather-die-on-the-job Edit: Woops, this thread is Hollywood survivors...well, think of it as a Hollywood possibility

And there it is, the Guardian obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/17/martino-sclavi-obituary (Come on, Pete!)

Thanks! I will get to it.

His individual ailments don't seem to be that bad, but taken all together, he's in a real risk.

I find myself humming "Coronavirus" over the tune of Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence sometimes.

My explanation: We like to lock away our old people alone and in care homes. The mediterranean culture keeps them in society.

Ahem... we're going to surpass that tomorrow.

So we probably pass 6.500 today. Considering we passed 6.000 only a couple of hours ago, are we now in the >1.000 deaths per day stage? Some thoughts.... this seems bigger than those epidemics of the past 20-30 days, probably because it actually hits "first world" countries. Now, I do wonder what the numbers will be when the virus hits the slums of Lagos, or Dhaka or whatever... but then I think, it probably already has - but it is not much different from a cold, pneumonia or the flu, and so the deaths in developing countries arent recognized as Corona deaths... Ebola, for example, is much more recognizable, with the blood in the lungs, or HIV, with yellow skin, lesions etc... So the real number of Coronavirus deaths might be significantly higher, much like the case number would be much higher if there was more testing.

Interview with Sonny Rollins from three weeks ago: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/24/magazine/sonny-rollins-interview.html Unofficially retired because of pulmonary fibrosis, talking a bit about death and reincarnation. But might hang on for a little more.

Update after my holiday... Hits are the almost universally picked Genesis P-Orridge, our beloved Javier Perez De Cuellar and Henri RIchard. The latter was a hit for two people, including Banana, who advances to the nr. 2 slot: Rank Team Points 1 Death Impends 431 2 Banana 427 3 gcreptile 400 4 RadGuy 392 5 Cpt. Chorizo 377 6 Clorox Bleachman 369 6 Joey Russ 369 8 Grave Danger 366 9 The Quim Reaper 344 10 Deadsox 337 11 John Key 333 12 Skinny Kiltrunner 323 13 msc 319 14 drol 306 15 The Unknown Man 304 16 The Mad Hatter 291 17 Torva Messor 289 18 JiroemonKimura 287 19 Book 286 20 Sir Creep 248 21 theoldlady 245 22 Etushispushingupdaisies 239 22 Toast 239 24 Sean 216 25 DevonDeathTrip 208 26 The Old Crem 194 27 YoungWillz 170 28 Kenny 149 29 Chilean Way 138 30 markb4 101 30 Great Uncle Bulgaria 101 32 Bibliogryphon 92 33 ThePrematureBurial 58 34 Gooseberry Crumble 50 35 Pedro67 40

Against all Logic - the albums 2012-2017 and 2017-2019. Some sample-rich deep electronic music from DJ Nicholas Jaar: Here's his cover of The Dramatics' "Now you've got me loving you":

He's luring german vaccine researchers to America to develop a Coronavirus vaccine exclusively for the USA: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/wie-trump-beim-coronavirus-agiert-usa-wollen-angeblich-deutsche-impfstoff-forscher-anlocken/25645578.html (german link) God, I hate him so much...