RIP someone or another

[mikeymad]

RIP Greg Biffle - and family.... 

RIP Mr. La Biff. 

[Knuckledragger]

Just heard that Ken Downie of The Black Dog passed.  TBD released a fantastic number of IDM gems in the first half of the 90s.  My personal favorite is Raxmus:

 

[Voltron]

RIP Joe Ely. Saw him at least a couple of times opening for the Kinks and the Clash and I'm guessing elsewhere as well. ☹️

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-12-16/joe-ely-texas-country-rock-legend-collaborator-with-clash-bruce-springsteen-dead-at-78

[HiWire]

RIP, Chris Rea.

[Dusty Chalk]

😭

Fuck.

[Grahame]

9 hours ago, HiWire said:

RIP, Chris Rea.

As a friend once said,

"With a voice like honey, poured over gravel".

Or the M25's unofficial theme song

RIP, Chris.

 

[HemiSam]

Quite a loss.  Godspeed, Chris....

2025 has been a rough one.

HS

[Knuckledragger]

The Cure's Perry Bamonte Dead at 65.

 

[Sechtdamon]

RIP, Brigitte Bardot... 

[blessingx]

RIP Cecilia Giménez, painting restorer

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/30/cecilia-gimenez-monkey-christ-mural-dies-spain 

 

Edited December 30, 2025 by blessingx

[Torpedo]

Oh come on, poor woman . I think it’s terrible that someone lets you do such thing when you’re not qualified for the job, but being remembered after your death for it…

[blessingx]

...

But her artistic mishap created an economic boon for Borja, a town of 5,000 inhabitants.

Tourists flocked to see her efforts. Less than three years later, more than 150,000 visitors from Japan, Brazil, the United States and elsewhere had made a trip to Borja, paying one euro, about $1.20, to view her work under a protective clear cover.

Local officials told The Times in 2014 that the tourism spike had stabilized the town’s restaurant industry and helped the area’s institutions. The nearby Museo de la Colegiata, which houses religious medieval art, experienced a rise in annual visits to 70,000, from 7,000. Vineyards in the region squabbled over the rights to put Mrs. Giménez’s Christ on their labels. In 2016, two Americans even staged an opera about the affair in the same church.

Mrs. Giménez, once ridiculed, became a beloved figure, even handing out prizes for a competition of young artists who had painted their own “Ecce Homo” portraits. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/world/europe/spain-jesus-fresco-restoration-painter-gimenez-dead.html 

[Torpedo]

All that was a side effect which doesn’t say much in favor of human nature.

[dsavitsk]

 

https://deadline.com/2025/12/isiah-whitlock-jr-dead-the-wire-spike-lee-movies-1236658855/

 

[Voltron]

That sucks. RIP Isiah

[Knuckledragger]

This is my favorite edit.

From almost 20 years ago.  RIP.

[TMoney]

Sheeeeeeeit!

https://youtu.be/4UXJZgOiVAI

[blessingx]

Not a lot of cinema giants left, but we just lost another - RIP Bela Tarr. 

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/bela-tarr-dead-1235171338/

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5668240/bela-tarr-filmmaker-dead

[blessingx]

One more link on Tarr. 
http://archive.today/5kjWW 

 

[blessingx]

RIP James "Jim" Moylan, inventor of the Moylan Arrow. 

https://www.theautopian.com/rip-the-guy-who-put-the-little-arrow-on-your-fuel-gauge-though-i-think-there-was-an-earlier-one/

https://www.carpro.com/blog/quick-shifts-rip-ford-inventor-of-the-moylan-arrow 

[Voltron]

Another member of the Dead is deceased. RIP Bob Weir.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/grateful-dead-guitarist-bob-weir-dies/

[Knuckledragger]

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams dies at 68.  He, uh, made some comic strips in the 90s that resonated with office workers.

[guzziguy]

Dilbert was absolutely brilliant.  RIP Scott Adams.

Edit:  Just read the link and found that Mr Adams was a Trump supporter.  I guess he wasn't as brilliant as his comic strip.

Edited Tuesday at 05:23 PM by guzziguy

[skullguise]

What a split legacy!  Loved the comic, hated his political views.  Still....RIP.....

[Wmcmanus]

Guess I'm getting to be an old guy now, or at least if feels that way at times like this.

Wilbur Wood was my favorite White Sox player as a kid, along with Dick Allen who sadly also passed away in 2020. Wood was a crafty knuckleballer with a rubber arm who averaged more than 40 starts and 336 innings pitched per season for the White Sox over a 5-year period from 1971-75. He once famously was a 20 game winner and a 20 game loser in the same season and almost did it a couple of other times.

I can still hear Harry Carey saying his name as he trotted out to the mound to start yet another game. "Hey, didn't he pitch just the other day?" he would joke. Wood once started both games of a double header in 1973 and lost both of them!! But he played for the White Sox and that's what they did. 

I didn't realize until a couple of years a ago when I Googled him that he was from the Boston area and had a thick New Englander accent. By all accounts a good guy, just an every day ordinary modest guy who happened to play baseball at one point in his life. They didn't make a lot of money in those days, so he wasn't wealthy. Just gave a wealth of memories to sports minded kids like me.

Pictured is the Strat-O-Matic card from his best year, which was also the year that Dick Allen won and MVP in the American League. I was 10 and will never forget either of them. RIP Woody, my fellow chubby lefty who made me think anything was possible, even if I knew I'd never be a major leaguer. Hell, I wasn't even that good in Little League! 

He was 84.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Wmcmanus