The R.I.P. Thread

[slc]

What about Hank Aaron?!
Top 10 all time baseball great?
This is a sports community right?!

 

[LogGrad98]

What about Hank Aaron?!
Top 10 all time baseball great?
This is a sports community right?!

Who?

That is an oxymoron. Baseball sucks so there can be no such thing as an all-time great. What does it mean to be great at something that sucks?

But it is sad he passed away. Sad for his family. I thought he was already gone tbh. Kind of surprised. Was a good dude from what I knew.

 

[gandalfe]

What about Hank Aaron?!
Top 10 all time baseball great?
This is a sports community right?!

I would have expected there to be a Hammerin' Hank thread in General Sports.

 

[LogGrad98]

Screech dead at 44. Crazy.

Dustin Diamond, 'Screech' on 'Saved by the Bell,' Dead at 44

Dustin Diamond, the actor who famously portrayed Screech in 'Saved by the Bell,' has died at age 44.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Avery]

Rush Limbaugh. Didn't like the guy or his politics, but I hate lung cancer a lot more.

 

[LogGrad98]

Rush Limbaugh. Didn't like the guy or his politics, but I hate lung cancer a lot more.

I read somewhere he was worth 500 million. Holy crap, I had no idea. I mean I knew he was a millionaire but not half-way to billionaire. Nuts.

 

[babe]

He's pretty far from mainstream, so it's not super surprising, but he was as big as they come in the underground/alternative hip hop scene. I'd recommend checking his work out if you're at all into rap, or want to hear Methylenedioxymethamphetamine worked into a bar.

Well, despite remedial education on hip hop from Sonnie Johnson's talk show, I haven't heard of him either. But anyone who knows what methylenedioxymethamphetamine is should be a billionaire.

Hip Hop I'm told is all about people who've turned from the streets to capitalism using revolutionary music to explain it all. Yo, "Up Like Trump".

a family man, too.

MF DOOM, Illusive Bard of Hip-Hop, Dead at 49 - Rolling Stone

 

[Red]

Best poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, age 101. In 1969, he published the long anti-Nixon piece “Tyrannus Nix”. My favorite, as my generation was none too fond of Tricky Dick, and it was also released as an album, which I enjoyed playing frequently....

Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.

apnews.com

How Lawrence Ferlinghetti Changed American Culture Forever

He was poetry's rock star.

slate.com

 

[gandalfe]

Best poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, age 101. In 1969, he published the long anti-Nixon piece “Tyrannus Nix”. My favorite, as my generation was none too fond of Tricky Dick, and it was also released as an album, which I enjoyed playing frequently....

Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.

apnews.com

How Lawrence Ferlinghetti Changed American Culture Forever

He was poetry's rock star.

slate.com

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He was 101 years old, and just published a book last year.

Not my favorite of the beats (That would be Jack Micheline, altho Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman are way up there, too) but he was definitely a shining light for us all to follow.

 

[Red]

He was 101 years old, and just published a book last year.

Not my favorite of the beats (That would be Jack Micheline, altho Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman are way up there, too) but he was definitely a shining light for us all to follow.

For myself, it was Ginsberg and “Howl” that proved most formative to how I saw America. I saw Moloch then, and still see Moloch everywhere today.

 

[candrew]

For myself, it was Ginsberg and “Howl” that proved most formative to how I saw America. I saw Moloch then, and still see Moloch everywhere today.

Ginsburg taught a course on African American Poetry with a focus on blues lyrics at the college l attended - naturally it was borderline impossible to get in to.

 

[gandalfe]

For myself, it was Ginsberg and “Howl” that proved most formative to how I saw America. I saw Moloch then, and still see Moloch everywhere today.

To bring it into the modern era, @HowlTweeter is tweeting all of the poem, one line every hour, from now until... well, probably until Twitter bans it, or something.