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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (3 Viewers)

Terribly sad, I thought I had read somewhere he had medical issues, maybe with a kidney but I couldn't find anything.

The Otis Anderson Jr story from last week was also sad, and I immediately thought they meant the old Cardinal and Giant RB was the killer.  Different spelling, the old NFL guy was Ottis.  2 young men gone way too soon.


Apparently he was suffering from seizures over the past year. Just awful. 

 
Four-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Sr. died at age 82. 


from my eulogy of his brother Bobby earlier this year:

The Unsers are the Royal Family of Albuquerque...

.....all i wanna do right now is make a gravel cloud on one of them roads in the Rio Puerco that Breaking Bad liked to shoot scenes in, cuz haulin' ### out there is the lifeblood of being an Unser. Hope there's plenty of dust & exhaust in the afterlife so them boys can breathe...


now 'burque has no Kings. RIP -

 
Mike Nesmith...no doubt donning a wool hat in Heaven...

Micky Dolenz 7m  · 

I’m heartbroken.  I’ve lost a dear friend and partner.

I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing shtick.

I’ll miss it all so much. Especially the shtick.

Rest in peace, Nez.

All my love,  Micky

 
Mike Nesmith...no doubt donning a wool hat in Heaven...

Micky Dolenz 7m  · 

I’m heartbroken.  I’ve lost a dear friend and partner.

I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing shtick.

I’ll miss it all so much. Especially the shtick.

Rest in peace, Nez.

All my love,  Micky


Gregg on the HBO series, Succession looks a lot like him. 

 
Mike Nesmith...no doubt donning a wool hat in Heaven...

Micky Dolenz 7m  · 

I’m heartbroken.  I’ve lost a dear friend and partner.

I’m so grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing shtick.

I’ll miss it all so much. Especially the shtick.

Rest in peace, Nez.

All my love,  Micky
The critics crapped on them, but they seriously had good music. 
RIP Mike. 

 
Before CNN, before ESPN, before MTV, cable subscribers had TBS, WGN, HBO, CBN and a half dozen or so startups & hangarounds that varied from state to state who managed to get on the satellite. In NM, one of those stations repeated a show called PopClips - featuring about 14 music videos and producer Michael Nesmith with his feet on a console, talking about music and videos, most of their broadcast day. I first saw the Police on it, George Harrison had a vid on there, Nesmith himself had one and i dont remember who else. Nesmith was honestly funny and really broke the fourth wall, talking about how much his show sucked, though he hoped it would get better with more videos. It didnt,. MTV overtook the concept, but i'll always see him as a forefather off that. RIP -

ETA: Here's the vid of his that Nesmith used to show all the time on PopClips. Looking at it now, it almost has a self=eulogy/heavenwish feel. Go into the light, Mike...

 
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Bassist Robbie Shakespeare half of the legendary rhythm section Sly & Robbie has died at age 68.  He and drummer Sly Dunbar appeared on an estimated 200,00 recordings, predominantly Reggae but also a bunch of well known Rock and R&B tracks.

Robbie's basslines were rarely flashy but they flowed around Sly's beats and together provided a solid foundation for the singers and players.  I'm cranking up the bass in his honor.

 
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Bassist Robbie Shakespeare half of the legendary rhythm section Sly & Robbie has died at age 68.  He and drummer Sly Dunbar appeared on an estimated 200,00 recordings, predominantly Reggae but also a bunch of well known Rock and R&B tracks.

Robbie's basslines were rarely flashy but they flowed around Sly's beats and together provided a solid foundation for the singers and players.  I'm cranking up the bass in his honor.
Oh crap...I thought this was Sly when I saw the post because we we talked about Robbie. Thought it was like an old couple going days apart around the holidays...

I had meant to say last time that I also really dug their "solo" efforts...rhythm killers was one I played a ton for a hot minute. Still amazed at how many people they played and how much influence theyve had for the last 40 years.

 
I had meant to say last time that I also really dug their "solo" efforts...rhythm killers was one I played a ton for a hot minute.


Rhythm Killers is such a crazy period piece with all the strings, scratching and rapping with a Howard Cosell imitator to boot.  It shouldn't work but somehow it does in large part because of Robbie's rock solid bottom.

 
Rhythm Killers is such a crazy period piece with all the strings, scratching and rapping with a Howard Cosell imitator to boot.  It shouldn't work but somehow it does in large part because of Robbie's rock solid bottom.
Doing the intro to the Shinehead tune..had totally forgotten.

I had also forgotten they made it all flow song to song without track breaks. That's part of why that album and Chinatown vs Duckdance (similar time, dancehall comp) we're always on at parties I went to during that time.

 
She’s known for her vampire stuff, but she also wrote a few….adult….books under a pseudonym.  She was a really interesting person.


I heard about her... adult... stories but was never curious enough to buy one.  I just figured it was Penthouse Forum type stuff. 

I made it up the "The Vampire Armand" but never finished it in the chronicles. To much history and not enough vampire stuff in that one and I lost interest,  I may go back and pick up where I left off.  

RIP Anne 

 
Writer Joan Didion has passed at the age of 87.

Novelist who is perhaps best known as an essayist of culture, the 60s, California, et al. Her most famous work was probably Slouching Toward Bethlehem 

In 2006 she wrote a memoir called The Year of Magical Thinking, chronicling the first year after her husband passed. I read it the year my mother passed, and found it immensely helpful in learning how to process grief.

 
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Former WWF wrestler Corporal Kirchner passed away on Wednesday at 64. The highlight of his career was his Wrestlemania 2 Capture the Flag match against Nikolai Volkoff.

 
Timing of the All Madden doc airing on Fox on Christmas Day is quite the coincidence.  Glad I recorded that and can make my son sit down and watch it with me at some point.


That really was a great piece to honor his legacy.  Turned it on randomly and couldn't turn it off.   Love that they had a segment on the turducken in addition to all his other accomplishments.  Great man.  RIP

 
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Streaming info

(maybe they move that date up with this news??)


@FOXSportsPR: In honor of the incomparable coach, broadcaster, and leader - John Madden - @FS1 will re-air its documentary tribute, ALL MADDEN, tonight at 9:00 PM ET.

FS1 will also re-air the documentary tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 9:00 PM ET and 10:30 PM ET.

 
I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work. 

😢😢😢 Madden loved football

 
My brother and I grew up watching the NFL in the 70’s and 80’s with Madden and Summerall on CBS and then Cossell, Gifford, Dandy Don on MNF.  We had Alcoa fantastic finishes, Madden video games, all of those fantastic teams, players, coaches and football games.  We had no idea how spoiled rotten we were.  Thanks Coach Madden!  RIP!

 
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a disappointing party leader, but the State of Nevada would not exist as presently constituted, Vegas especially, without Harry Reid. his dogged & brilliant crusade to keep the thirsty behemoth of California from hijacking the runoff from the Sierra Nevada's eastern slope was the greatest political one-man-band performance of my lifetime. Rest in Pools -

 

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