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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (7 Viewers)

Mel Stottlemeyer, lefty all-star pitcher for the Yankees.  

I have a couple of these from childhood ...good shape though not mint.  Wasn't an American League guy but for some reason really liked this guy.  

Also in my 7-11 Slurpee cup All-Star collection - which is long gone.  

 
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OrtonToOlsen said:
Her audiobook reading of "American Psycho" is a classic.
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i hate to review jokes, but this is so perfectly conceived that i actually had to Google it to be sure. Bravo!!!

ETA: I met her once, backstage @ The Rink w my showbiz cousins. Just as bizarre as one might think, lovely tho she was

 
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Thursday, found out yesterday via NYT

Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry 'Mustn't Be Fancy,' Dies At 83

The Summer Day

Who made the world? 
Who made the swan, and the black bear? 
Who made the grasshopper? 
This grasshopper, I mean-- 
the one who has flung herself out of the grass, 
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, 
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-- 
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. 
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. 
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. 
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. 
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down 
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass, 
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, 
which is what I have been doing all day. 
Tell me, what else should I have done? 
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? 
Tell me, what is it you plan to do 
With your one wild and precious life?

 
one more...

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. 

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument. 

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

 
Bay Area rock guitarist James Wilsey died last month.  He's best known as Chris Isaak's longtime sideman; his twangy playing contributed greatly to Isaak's signature sound.  Wilsey got booted from the band at the height of Isaak's popularity and his life spiraled out of control.  He ended up homeless living under a freeway in LA and died on Christmas eve.  There's your cautionary rock n roll tale for today.

 
Eephus said:
Bay Area rock guitarist James Wilsey died last month.  He's best known as Chris Isaak's longtime sideman; his twangy playing contributed greatly to Isaak's signature sound.  Wilsey got booted from the band at the height of Isaak's popularity and his life spiraled out of control.  He ended up homeless living under a freeway in LA and died on Christmas eve.  There's your cautionary rock n roll tale for today.
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Silvertones were a tight little combo and made lonely luscious. RIP -

 
Tom Servo said:
The Original Angry Young Man - Albert Finney has passed. He was 82.
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A master. One of the few of that great generation of Royal Academy actors who "got" the blood&guts American ego as well. He put it all out there without ever spilling a drop. RIP -

I was on the road when Murder on the Orient Express came out., so i had no idea of the particulars of the production when a bunch of us went in to see it. Never guessed that it was Albert Finney playing Poirot and i remember the Orleans guys laughing at me cuz i refused to believe it even after i saw the credits. He'd been a favorite since Tom Jones, so i was well familiar with him, but.....

If you're the type who uses the occasion of a star's passing to see some of their work, i bet the flick Finney would most like you to watch is Under the Volcano. Dragass movie, but bravura performance.

 
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I think it's time I rewatched Millers Crossing. :) Also, regarding Finney, I really enjoyed him in Erin Brockovich.

 
Don Quixote said:
Miller's Crossing was the first thing to come my head.  Lots of great scenes in that movie, but him with the tommy gun and "Danny Boy" playing in the background is the greatest to me.
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that's one of the most human characters in Coen film history and that is one of their best scenes. he was a terrific actor that was cut from a different cloth. he did ups and downs to his career - Wolfen and Looker come to mind - but he did good work. he could play it big like most actors but also really small, like the adaptation of "The Browning Version". I always liked him.

 
Don Quixote said:
Isn’t that Peter Finch, or is there a reference here that I’m missing?
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh ...well yeah.  

I got them mixed up.  Sorry, Mr. Finney.   :bag:

...and geezus the guy would've been 100, he was old in that movie from the mid-70s.  :double bag: 🙂

 
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mars rover, opportunity, officially declared dead. was really hoping something would shake loose and it would wake up again. I feel more sad about this loss than for most people. 

from ars technica:

Late Tuesday night, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent their final data uplink to the Opportunity rover on Mars. Over this connection, via the Deep Space Network, the American jazz singer Billie Holiday crooned "I'll Be Seeing You," a song which closes with the lines:

I'll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you

The scientists waited to hear some response from their long-silent rover, which had been engulfed in a global dust storm last June, likely coating its solar panels in a fatal layer of dust. Since then, the team of scientists and engineers have sent more than 835 commands, hoping the rover will wake up from its long slumber—that perhaps winds on Mars might have blown off some of the dust that covered the panels.

So on Tuesday night, they listened. They reminisced. But in the end, no response came. Opportunity would finally be declared dead on Sol 5352, as in five thousand, three hundred, and fifty-two days on Mars. NASA is expected to make it official at 2pm ET Wednesday, when NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and the chief of the agency's science division, Thomas Zurbuchen, convene a news conference.

Opportunity landed on Mars more than 15 Earth years ago, on January 25, 2004. So much time has passed since then. Facebook would not be created until a month later. YouTube would not get its first video upload for more than a year. George W. Bush was still in his first presidency. NASA's Cassini spacecraft had not yet even arrived in the Saturn system.

And yet from that moment on, Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit, began plugging along the surface of Mars. Originally designed for 90-day lifetimes, the rovers persisted. Spirit lasted until 2010, when its batteries were unable to keep the spacecraft's critical components from freezing.

But Opportunity kept on keeping on amidst the harsh terrain. It roved a staggering 45.16 kilometers across the red planet, a distance unmatched by any rover on the Moon or Mars. In 2016, as it climbed a hill, Opportunity's tilt reached 32 degrees, the steepest ever for any rover on Mars.

The rover's primary task on Mars was to better understand the planet's geology and understand the history of water there. It succeeded. In one discovery, for example, it found evidence of ancient hydrothermal vents that would have existed beneath a warm, shallow lake.

When the dust storm originally engulfed Opportunity last year, mission scientists were hopeful they might yet recover the rover. Sure, it had to steer with just two instead of four wheels, and the rover was showing its age. But even then, its batteries had retained 85 percent of their original capacity. But now, NASA scientists know it will never emerge from Perseverance Valley, a feature carved into the rim of Endeavor Crater by flowing water in a distant age.

Spirit and Opportunity will not soon be forgotten. Their success led NASA to the development of larger rovers, including Curiosity and the forthcoming Mars 2020 rovers. Those two rovers carry considerably more scientific equipment and will probe deeper into Mars' watery past and whether it might have once supported life.

Perhaps, most of all, Spirit and Opportunity will be celebrated for their dogged survival in harsh conditions. One day, not in the movies but in real life, humans hopefully will visit the sites of these two rovers to marvel at their crude technology, dusty graves, and historic accomplishments. This would be humanity's best tribute to these two early Martian pioneers—that they were not the end of human exploration of Mars, but the beginning.
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El Floppo said:
mars rover, opportunity, officially declared dead. was really hoping something would shake loose and it would wake up again. I feel more sad about this loss than for most people. 

from ars technical:
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You know, if Mars One hadn't gone bankrupt, those astronauts could've kept busy dusting that thing.

 
Tom Servo said:
You know, if Mars One hadn't gone bankrupt, those astronauts could've kept busy dusting that thing.
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Scientists will find that it's being kept spotless by a team of subterranean Marsican maids and, when POTUS hears that, he will send SPACE FORCE there to build a wall....

 
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