Showing posts with label obituary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obituary. Show all posts
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...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

On Magick and Technology

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In my obit yesterday I had overlooked my favorite quote from Arthur C. Clarke, his definition of magick. It ranks up there with any given b...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Childhoods End

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Arthur C. Clarke the great SF writer who put the 'science' into science fiction has passed on. He was a humanist who believed in the...
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...
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, September 01, 2007

A Tale Of Two Heiresses

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Compare and contrast. These two well known American Hotel Heiresses died within week of each other. One made the news for a day, being a wel...
Friday, April 13, 2007

Vonnegut, Dresden and Canada

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Kurt Vonnegut, author of `Slaughterhouse-Five,’ dies The defining moment of Vonnegut's life was the firebombing of Dresden, Germany...