Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RIP. Show all posts
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Forrest J. Ackerman RIP

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Forry Ackerman the father of 'Sci-Fi' and Famous Monsters of Movieland died yesterday. When I learned this I said to a friend wow...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008

Working Class Hero; Studs Terkel RIP

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If E.P. Thompson gave voice to a new form of labour history; social history of the peoples struggles, history of the forgotten, with his M...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Don't Mourn Organize

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The Greatest Wobbly folk singer and hobo since Joe Hill has taken the last train out of the station. Bruce 'U' Utah Phillips has pas...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Albert Hoffman RIP

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Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann , who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Bobby and Howard

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There is a passing similarity between the decent into madness of social isolation that Bobby Fischer suffered and the decent into madness o...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Robert Goulet RIP

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Robert Goulet, `Camelot' Star, Dapper Singer, Dead at Age 73 He was born in the U.S. but raised here in Edmonton. His official website ...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Body Shop Loses Founder

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Somehow the passing of Anita Roddick, the founder of Body Shop went without much notice in the progressive blogosphere . She was 64 and suf...
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Mime Silenced

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There is an eternal silence in the world of Theatre today. Good night gentle clown. Marcel Marceau, Famed French Mime, Dies Marcel Mangel ...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

Alex RIP

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You may have seen Alex on TV. That is where I first came across him. He provided evidence that animals are not dumb. And he gave new meanin...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Baudrillard RIP

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I don't know how I missed this but Jean Baudrillard the French artist / philosopher of post modernism and critical theory, passed on l...