gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 18, 2017 On 24.4.2017 at 19:57, gcreptile said: Kuki Gallmann, of "I dreamed of Africa" fame in stable, but critical state after getting shot: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/24/author-kuki-gallmann-shot-raiders-ranch-in-kenya-i-dreamed-of-africa Recovering and unbroken, a woman made of steel: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/jun/18/who-shot-kuki-gallmann-the-story-of-a-kenyan-conservationist-heroine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 26, 2017 My DDP theme pick children's author Shirley Hughes guest edits Radio 4 Woman's hour today. Probably just to piss off those people who pick her in deadpools. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted June 28, 2017 Michael Bond, Paddington author, dies at 91. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/28/paddington-bear-author-michael-bond-dies-aged-91 RIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted June 28, 2017 3 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Michael Bond, Paddington author, dies at 91. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/28/paddington-bear-author-michael-bond-dies-aged-91 RIP. Very sad news. He was such a lovely man. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,329 Posted June 28, 2017 My childhood heros are dropping like flags. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 903 Posted June 28, 2017 53 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Michael Bond, Paddington author, dies at 91. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/28/paddington-bear-author-michael-bond-dies-aged-91 RIP. Second Micahel of this day. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 28, 2017 However that is another hit for my DDp theme team. Long live Olga de Polga. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted June 28, 2017 11 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: However that is another hit for my DDp theme team. Long live Olga de Polga. Nae bumping off Judith Kerr, you. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted June 28, 2017 16 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said: Second Micahel of this day. Short illness - according to first reports I always suspected he'd be in mortal danger if his wallet fell on him Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,950 Posted June 28, 2017 What a horrible year! First James Bond and now Michael Bond! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted June 28, 2017 5 hours ago, drol said: What a horrible year! First James Bond and now Michael Bond! And I'm all out of Gold Bond Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,586 Posted June 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, msc said: Nae bumping off Judith Kerr, you. Neither Michael or Judith were going to be carried over in to 2018. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 903 Posted July 2, 2017 Heathcote Williams Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,983 Posted July 2, 2017 On 6/28/2017 at 09:18, drol said: What a horrible year! First James Bond and now Michael Bond! It's not all bad,Chico's Bail Bonds still have their sponsorship deal with The Bears. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted July 2, 2017 *checks on Samantha Bond's health...* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted July 4, 2017 Russian Author Daniil Granin died. he was 98 years old. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,728 Posted July 6, 2017 And here QO from Daily Mail regarding death of Daniil Granin http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4667650/Russian-author-Daniil-Granin-dies-98.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,950 Posted July 6, 2017 He was on my Shadow List last year, but I dropped him this year. It was definitely too much for him. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted July 11, 2017 Kenneth Silverman, whose “The Life and Times of Cotton Mather,” a deeply researched, lively biography of the great Puritan preacher, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1985, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was complications of a respiratory illness. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,647 Posted July 11, 2017 On 02/07/2017 at 14:31, ObakeFilter said: Heathcote Williams Bit reverent that; bit light on the various machinations of his private life including setting himself on fire on Jean Shrimpton's doorstep and fathering David Gilmour's adopted jailbird son. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,329 Posted July 19, 2017 Posted on Elizabeth Gilbert`s facebook an hour ago. Dear Ones: I want to share something really special with you all today, and I hope you will share it with others... http://rayyaelias.com Last year, when my beloved Rayya Elias was diagnosed with terminal cancer, we made a commitment to create as much art as we could together, in the time that she had left. We've been making music, writing, and filming all year long — and many of our friends and loved ones have been creating alongside us. I wanted to share with you this video, of a song that Rayya and I wrote together. It's called HAPPY HOME, and I think it fully captures the intensity of this moment in her life. I wrote the lyrics, which are all about Rayya and my love for her. The words are based on a story my friend Martha Beck once told me about a concept in Chinese mythology called "The Banished Immortal". Banished Immortals were thought to be divine beings who had been cast out of a celestial paradise, in order to live out one human incarnation here on earth. Because they have a memory of what heaven was like, Banished Immortals are never really at home here on our planet, where there is so much suffering and difficulty. As a result, they always feel alien and out of place, and they often become addicts, or artists, or healers — or all three. Banished Immortals just keep trying to find, or create, or disappear into, a sense of heaven here on earth — because they remember what existence is supposed to feel like, and they know it isn't supposed to hurt this much. After Martha told me about this myth, I wrote these words for Rayya, whom I think of as my Banished Immortal. Rayya took my words and put them to music. Her brilliant nephew Sami Jano produced and arranged the music for the song, and then shot this video, along with his directing partner Stephen Meierding. Tonight, Rayya was scheduled to have performed a one-woman show in New York City, but she had to cancel the event because of her declining health. I feel so sad for her today, because I really wanted her have that moment tonight on stage (where she has always belonged, and always feels at ease), singing her songs and telling her epic stories. But it was not meant to be. So I decided today to just share this video with you all, in the hopes of showing you what my Rayya can do — and also in the hopes of letting her feel some of that spotlight, and giving her an even wider stage. This video was shot on a day when she was very ill, after a full year of illness, and you'll see the pain in her face. But she showed up that day to create this video, anyway. Because this is what we can do, while we are still here — no matter where we came from, or why we came, or what state we are in. We can keep trying to create, for as long as possible. And if we can find a way to make art in loving collaboration, even better still. That's how we find little pockets of paradise on earth, even through all the suffering and loss and pain. ONWARD, LG Here are the lyrics: I'm under you, seeing you, watching you spin, From a boy to a girl, and then back again. I have you, I lose you, I find you again, You're a woman, a man, and then back again. You're not one of us. Never meant to be walking among us. Your eyes on me, reading me, an inch from mine Your mouth, searching my paradigm I have you, I lose you, now we've begun, So rest with me, stay with me, where you belong You're not one of us. Never meant to be walking among us. But I'm trying to give you a home My body and mind are your own Now you've lost your heaven You live in our dungeons My banished immortal. Dance, dance, you've found a home A happy home. So dance, dance you have a home A happy home. Happy home, happy home. You're not one of us. Never meant to be walking among us. But I'm trying to give you a home My body and mind are your own Now you've lost your heaven You live in our dungeons My banished immortal Now you've lost your heaven, You live in our dungeons, My banished immortal. Now you've lost your heaven, You live in our dungeons, My banished, my banished, immortal. The video is very hard to watch.You can see the illness has taken nearly all her strength and reserve.Reminds me of David Bowie and Johnny Cash`s final songs although she looks frailer than either of them did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,529 Posted July 19, 2017 Yeah, I can never decide whether to put Rayya updates in authors or the LGBTQ thread. Had to laugh at the venue she was meant to be performing at wishing her a "swift recovery" as if she just had a sprained ankle or something though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,329 Posted July 19, 2017 She can go in either.She is a writer as is Gilbert so I guess I just associate her with this thread more.Swift recovery?That is almost taking the piss. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
