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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (6 Viewers)

Sinn Fein said:
John McAfee @officialmcafee · Nov 30, 2019

Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm.

:oldunsure:

:tinfoilhat:

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1200864283766251521
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With all the totally insane things the guy did, it wouldn’t surprise me if he posted that and then killed himself to try to frame the US.

Some of the other crazy stuff he was alleged to have done:

-Did a ton of drugs, some of them homemade

-Killed someone

-Tried to start his own private military

-Started a sex cult that involved women pooping on him through a hammock

-Had sex with a whale

 
GroveDiesel said:
With all the totally insane things the guy did, it wouldn’t surprise me if he posted that and then killed himself to try to frame the US.

Some of the other crazy stuff he was alleged to have done:

-Did a ton of drugs, some of them homemade

-Killed someone

-Tried to start his own private military

-Started a sex cult that involved women pooping on him through a hammock

-Had sex with a whale
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:yes:

 
GroveDiesel said:
With all the totally insane things the guy did, it wouldn’t surprise me if he posted that and then killed himself to try to frame the US.

Some of the other crazy stuff he was alleged to have done:

-Did a ton of drugs, some of them homemade

-Killed someone

-Tried to start his own private military

-Started a sex cult that involved women pooping on him through a hammock

-Had sex with a whale
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Sounds like a typical Friday night to me. 

 
I genuinely hope local NYC street artist Hash Halper is RIP. We saw him just about a month ago doing his sidewalk hearts in front of our building. Daughter and i always love seeing those in the neighborhood, and while Id seen him doing them a number of times, this was the first time I stopped to thank him and tell him how much we both loved what he was doing. :(

 
I genuinely hope local NYC street artist Hash Halper is RIP. We saw him just about a month ago doing his sidewalk hearts in front of our building. Daughter and i always love seeing those in the neighborhood, and while Id seen him doing them a number of times, this was the first time I stopped to thank him and tell him how much we both loved what he was doing. :(

 
El Floppo said:
I genuinely hope local NYC street artist Hash Halper is RIP. We saw him just about a month ago doing his sidewalk hearts in front of our building. Daughter and i always love seeing those in the neighborhood, and while Id seen him doing them a number of times, this was the first time I stopped to thank him and tell him how much we both loved what he was doing. :(
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Don't you mean hope he is not RIP...as in he is still with us?

 
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Tom Servo said:
Don't you mean hope he is not RIP...as in he is still with us?
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Hes deceased. Jumped off Brooklyn Bridge. His life didnt sound too peaceful in spite of the hearts... So I hope hes found some now.

Fwiw, i fixed the post so that it links the article in the NYTimes about him.

 
El Floppo said:
I genuinely hope local NYC street artist Hash Halper is RIP. We saw him just about a month ago doing his sidewalk hearts in front of our building. Daughter and i always love seeing those in the neighborhood, and while Id seen him doing them a number of times, this was the first time I stopped to thank him and tell him how much we both loved what he was doing. :(
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Link. 

 
Ugh...rip Mickey Muenning, influential architect based out of Big Sur.

A gb from college worked for him right out of school...got married in Big Sur. I went to her wedding and stayed in Mickey's daughter's house on a ridge overlooking the ocean that he designed with all found/reclaimed material (old railroad bridge truss, wine bottles, etc), with an outdoor toilet with the same view. Saw him and his magestic eyebrows walkimg around NYC a bunch of years back and had a brief chat.

Didnt love everything he did (although i did love a lot of it...especially the Post Ranch Inn), but respected the heck out of him for flat out going for it every time. And he led the life I had always dreamed of living- small town architect doing big things.

Rip hippie gnome elf.

 
El Floppo said:
Ugh...rip Mickey Muenning, influential architect based out of Big Sur.

A gb from college worked for him right out of school...got married in Big Sur. I went to her wedding and stayed in Mickey's daughter's house on a ridge overlooking the ocean that he designed with all found/reclaimed material (old railroad bridge truss, wine bottles, etc), with an outdoor toilet with the same view. Saw him and his magestic eyebrows walkimg around NYC a bunch of years back and had a brief chat.

Didnt love everything he did (although i did love a lot of it...especially the Post Ranch Inn), but respected the heck out of him for flat out going for it every time. And he led the life I had always dreamed of living- small town architect doing big things.

Rip hippie gnome elf.
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sorry to hear it ...this kind of design - combined with my weirded out profs ...convinced me that I did not want to be an architect

 
Binky The Doormat said:
sorry to hear it ...this kind of design - combined with my weirded out profs ...convinced me that I did not want to be an architect
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Huh. 99.99% of architects are doing nothing like this (why i respect him so much). Seems an odd reason to not go with it. And dont get me wrong...there are a LOT of excellent reasons to not fo with it, so you dodged bullets.

 
neal cassady said:
RIP Rick Laird, bassist for Mahavishnu  Orchestra.  Also was house bassist at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, and toured with Chick Corea and Stan Getz. 
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Attending a midnight concert of jazz violinist Michael White, Alice Coltrane then Mahavishnu Orchestra at the NEConservatory with the love of my life in the winter of 1972 was the most transported i've ever been by an evening of music. Thank you - RIP

 
Hastur said:
RIP director Richard Donner(Superman, Lethal Weapon, Goonies, Ladyhawke among others).
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Richard Donner very nearly drew me into a life of crime.

Just after i moved to New Mexico, a bunch of the hippies in my commune (who'd discovered the area crewing on Roeg/Bowie's Man Who Fell to Earth) got jobs on the earthquake scene in Superman - the most expensive scene in movie history at the time - shot S of Quemado, NM. They invited me to come with them on shooting day. With a million-dollar price tag, there were no do-overs, so the coverage was impressive (though nowhere as impressive as the construction done earlier to create the illusion of the earth opening up along a line of depth charges, my pals told me). I counted eight set-ups from handhelds to nests nearly a mile away. Though i couldnt see enough to say, the shot seemingly went off without a hitch and everybody partied like goons in celebration of their achievement.

Me and a crewgal were sauntering around the periphery, tugging on our tequila & beers & invisible lines between us, when a pickup truck pulled up to a trailer we were passing.

"What's that?"

"Stock from the shoot"

As i watched the operator load film cans into this trailer and drive away, my devious nature sprang to work.

"That's the film of the earthquake scene?"

"Ya. C'm'ere"

We looked in the open door of the trailer to see a single person whom i could have easily overwhelmed, with or without my friends co-operation, inventorying the stock and we were far enough from the partyheads to probably get back to my car unnoticed. I pointed out to my companion that there was essentially a million dollars sitting on that counter, virtually unprotected.

"Ya", she smiled.

In the movie i've made in my head of that moment, we almost went for it and i turned to reconsider our scruples 3-4 times before we got back to the crowd. Could've ransomed it for a quarter mil, easy - a fair piece of change in 1977.

RIP, Mr Donner.

 
wikkidpissah said:
We looked in the open door of the trailer to see a single person whom i could have easily overwhelmed, with or without my friends co-operation, inventorying the stock and we were far enough from the partyheads to probably get back to my car unnoticed. I pointed out to my companion that there was essentially a million dollars sitting on that counter, virtually unprotected.
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I remember in my sitcom days, after filming the show in front of the audience on a Friday night, we'd load the film reels into some PA's trunk (4 cameras, at least three reels per camera, to capture whatever mundane hijinks the writers had come up with for that week) and that PA would drive the film to Fotokem or Deluxe or whatever to get processed over the weekend. But one weekend, our PA had his mind more focused on his upcoming trip to Vegas than the job. The lab called the UPM at like 3 in the morning asking if the reels were going to show up overnight or what... and the UPM had already been asleep thinking that his night was done. 

It was some frantic paging and an all-out search in two states for that PA and the million-dollars-plus worth of celluloid he forgot he was hauling before the desert heat melted it in some casino parking lot. 

Next week and every week after an additional union Transportation Driver was kept on duty effectively eight extra hours to just sit around and do nothing all day other than be responsible enough to be present at wrap to drive the exposed film four miles and unload it. Pretty good gig if you could get it.

 
Hastur said:
RIP director Richard Donner(Superman, Lethal Weapon, Goonies, Ladyhawke among others).
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:(

I was the project architect for his and wife Lauren Schuler-Donner's Maui house a long time ago. The nicest people in every interaction I had with them, especially ****, who was larger than life in stature and personality.

Went there once with them and my boss during bidding- hosted us at their house we were going to tear down and rebuild. Very low key folk- opposite of almost all of the rich and famous clients I've worked for. Ended up watching one of those Entertainment tonight type tv shows one night with him and some buddy old hollywood dude (worked with/for Groucho, iirc) passing a joint around. I hate these shows, but to them it was news about their pals and prompted anecdote after anecdote about the hollywood scene and life...for some reason really strange and amazing at the time for me.

he owned the danny glover fishing boat from lethal weapon (he directed)- took us out fishing on it a couple times (also passing a joint around)....amazing time.

I remember him talking about some local issue he was supporting (in a huge way) and I commented how cool it was to affect change in such a large way. He responded that it didnt matter how much you were able to give to support your cause (time, money, whatever), just that you gave something/anything of yourself. Thats always struck me.

One of the last nights there during another pass the dutchie session, conversation turned to Ladyhawke, a movie I loved and didn't know he had directed. I had just rewatched it recently and was going to bust his balls about the godawful Alan Parsons Project soundtrack. As soon as I started mentioning it (before I could get to the ball-busting), he cut me off excitedly and told me that the soundtrack was his favorite music and had a special place in his heart- he had met Lauren on the shoot and they bonded somehow over the music. I was SO happy and relieved not to have put my foot in my mouth on that one. Not sure how long they'd been married at that point, but it was clear he absolutely doted on and was still crazy about her.

:(

rip **** Donner, and sincere condolences to Lauren. A genuinely amazing man and couple.

eta...Lauren has been the exec producer for all the xmen movies since the beginning- hugely successful and talented. At that time, they were in production on the first one and i mentioned that we had heard that a friend of ours was up for a role as the lazer eyes guy in it. I was completely wrong... our actor friend must have  exaggerated how "up" for it he was. She was pissed. And our friend never worked in an xmen movie after that :lol:   :oldunsure: . He ended up doing pretty damn well, so no harm.

 
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