RIP Travis Scott fans
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/06/us/houston-astroworld-festival/index.html

I don't know when those people died but it is pretty much despicable that the show was allowed to go on for an hour and ten minutes even though the crush started immediately, local officials called it a mass casualty event thirty minutes into his set, and an ambulance entered the crowd at that time to remove somebody, which was visible onstage. Going forty more minutes after that seems incredible.

4 hours ago, Voltron said:

I don't know when those people died but it is pretty much despicable that the show was allowed to go on for an hour and ten minutes even though the crush started immediately, local officials called it a mass casualty event thirty minutes into his set, and an ambulance entered the crowd at that time to remove somebody, which was visible onstage. Going forty more minutes after that seems incredible.

Second this and the fact that evidently similar issues happened at the same show two years ago...

Julie Green: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/julie-green-dead.html

Six tacos, six glazed doughnuts and a Cherry Coke: That was the last meal of a man executed in Oklahoma in July 1999. Rendered in cobalt blue glaze on a white china plate the next year, it was the first in Julie Green’s decades-long art project, “The Last Supper,” which documented the final meals of death row prisoners around the country.

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In 2001 in Indiana, a prison granted an inmate’s request to have his mother make him chicken dumplings in the institution’s kitchen. Professor Green painted the word “Mother” on the platter that pays homage to that meal. ... In Georgia in 2009, a mentally disabled inmate asked for half a pecan pie. He didn’t understand the concept of execution, and he intended to save some of the pie to eat afterward.

Thanks for posting that Doug, I don’t get enough art in my life these days and that was a touching piece.

RIP Dean Stockwell of Quantum Leap, Paris Texas, To Live and Die in L.A, Dune, and Blue Velvet  

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/09/dean-stockwell-quantum-leap-blue-velvet-married-to-mob-dies-aged-85 
 

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RIP Julie and Dean. 

RIP Julie and Dean. 

 

 

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Loong career. Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra in ANCHORS AWEIGH. With Myrna Loy and William Powell in SONG OF THE THIN MAN. Also with Gregory Peck in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT. 

Godspeed, Bob Bondurant....

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/11/15/bob-bondurant-le-mans-winner-and-driving-school-pioneer-dies?refer=musweekly&utm_source=musweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-11-18

HS

RIP Bob.

This one hurts.  I'm a huge fan of the band, and two of my best friends IRL are two of the band's biggest fans, and we were just talking about him/them on Thursday, the day before the accident, anticipating a North American tour:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/big-big-train-singer-david-longdon-dead-at-56

RIP the dead when an SUV ripped at speed into a Christmas parade in a small community in Wisconsin. At least five dead and 40-odd injured. He first hit schoolchildren and then a parade of dancing grannies.

The police have the bastard in custody,

BBC News - Waukesha: Five dead after car ploughs into Wisconsin parade

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59369492

Sylvère Lotringer, who popularized French critical theory in the United States, helped inspire the Matrix movie series, hosted conferences for counterculture celebrities, lent his name to a character in an acclaimed novel and a television series based on it [I Love Dick], provoked rants on Fox News and founded an influential publishing house — all while trying to outrun memories of a childhood spent on the precipice of disaster [damn Nazis] — died on Nov. 8 at his home outside Ensenada, Mexico, in Baja California. He was 83.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/sylvere-lotringer-dead.html

https://www.artforum.com/news/sylvere-lotringer-1938-2021-87164 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/woman-believed-to-be-oldest-person-ever-dies-at-age-124/ar-AAR321G

R.I.P. Francisca Susano...

"It is not yet determined what the cause of Lola's death was."  nice...

Missed this one from earlier in the year - Tim Bogert, bass player for Vanilla Fudge/Cactus.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vanilla-fudge-bassist-tim-bogert-dead-obit-1114424/

#FuckCancer

R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim...

91...

RIP Stephen. The titan of American musical theater of the last 50 years.

 

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RIP Almudena Grandes. Died from cancer at 61. She was a writer that I enjoyed very much. She wrote a series of books named "the never ending war" from the losers of the Spanish Civil War point of view (that's communist, anarchists and democrats in general). She also wrote a couple of columns weekly in the newspaper I usually read in Spanish. Clever, kind and decent human being. I'll miss her writings a lot. Godspeed, Almudena

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R.I.P. Sir Frank Williams...F1 legend dies at age 79...

Frank was life president of our running club - Abingdon AAC - and used to run with us back in the day. He was a real nutcase runner, and used to take his drivers for a run around a F1 circuit so they could "understand" the circuit better. He was fast!

Then, aged 44 and on his way to the Airport in the South of France, focusing on a half marathon he was going to run he next day in London, lost control of the car, broke his neck and became tetraplegic, living the last 35 years wheelchair-bound.

He was always very accepting of what happened to him, with a ready smile.

Born in South Shields, and a Geordie like me.

RIP Frank, you were a real character on all sorts of levels.

RIP Frank.

BTW, the doc Six by Sondheim is on HBO. Looks like someone uploaded to YT also. Showed on on this list - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/29/where-to-start-with-stephen-sondheim-10-of-the-best-from-the-maestro