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one of my all time fave openings:







Peter Fonda, 79, RIP.

Philadelphia is today mourning the loss of a titan of the youth lacrosse community here, Peter Samson...RIP, Pete.

Peter Samson, 67

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Not a recent obit. Truly gone but not forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whitaker


Jack Whitaker - https://awfulannouncing.com/cbs/longtim ... at-95.html


Imagine all the stories he had over his many years in pro sports.

Leslie Gelb, renowned journalist, author of the Pentagon Papers, and foreign affairs commentator:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ob ... story.html

"It took 36 people 18 months to complete the project, which resulted in a series of monographs and documents totaling 47 volumes. By the time it was finished in 1969, McNamara was no longer defense secretary. Dr. Gelb was waved away when he brought the finished volumes to McNamara.

The Pentagon Papers detailed — often in forthright terms — a haphazard history, fraught with chaos and ineptitude, of U.S. military and diplomatic efforts in Vietnam.

“Part of the tragedy of Vietnam,” Dr. Gelb wrote in his summary of the report, “was that the compromises our Presidents were prepared to offer could never lead to an end to the war.”

Moreover, he wrote, before troops were sent to Vietnam, “no systematic or serious examination of Vietnam’s importance to the United States was ever undertaken within the government.”

The media's publication and extensive coverage of the Pentagon Papers led to the end of the criminal war on Vietnam. Sadly, the media failed to do the same with the Downing Street Memo as the British press did or the criminal war on Iraq could have been ended as well.

Eddie Money at 70. Great band.

A year and a half ago I was in Pittsburgh to visit the Andy Warhol Museum. I was reluctant to go because I’m not a big fan of his work, but it was a really interesting exhibit. The gift shop was unusually interesting especially when I came upon a metal tumbler. It made me erupt in laughter. On the outside it said,

I’ve
got
two
chickens
to
paralyze

Cokie Roberts, 75

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This one sucks. She was a great lady. Been watching this week going back to David Brinkley hosting it and she was just an excellent source of balanced, thoughtful and considerate wisdom in the face of the ralph reeds and Katrina VanDerHuyeven (sp) they’d put on there yelling and being overly dogmatic and wrong.

Antonio Brown's career?

Oldbarndog wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:12 pm Antonio Brown's career?

Released one day before his bonus payment was due. Management sure knows how to renege on a contract with impunity. But at least his net worth is well into the multi millions so he'll do all right.

Wow, not the response I would’ve expected. There’s three teams that are carrying actual cash and salary cap hits for this clown. He needs to go away like rae carruth and Greg hardy.

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78
One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ad-889788/


Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided.

“It is with great sadness we confirm our beloved Robert passed away yesterday night,” Hunter’s family announced in a statement. “He died peacefully at home in his bed, surrounded by love. His wife Maureen was by his side holding his hand. For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone. In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music. Let there be songs to fill the air.”




Awesome lyricist.

Hunter wrote a line for everything, and had to convince his editor Jerry Garcia that it was perfect, worth singing a million times. He saw us as gamblers, sailers, cowboys, losers and lovers. When my first publisher realized I was a Deadhead, he told me most of the novelists in NYC were fans. A great writer. Rip.

Upstate NY music legend Bat McGrath... gone at 73. To all of you... go get a damn colonoscopy.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:40 am Upstate NY music legend Bat McGrath... gone at 73. To all of you... go get a damn colonoscopy.

Yup Cradle, he and Don Potter were some duo. They had a great run back in the day.
Also agree about the colonoscopy, it can also catch prostate cancer early. Both take many guys our age.

I just completed the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride in Rochester. https://www.gentlemansride.com/.
Worldwide ride that raises money for research of prostate cancer, testicular cancer and men’s mental health issues such as suicide. You should think about riding next year, about 150 of your neighbors this year.

Ginger Baker, 80, RIP:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... es-aged-80





Known for his strange and often erratic behavior - but a darn good drummer.

Cradle, were you familiar with Wool? Great upstate cover band that played the college circuit in the 60s and 70s.

Brown Lacrosse's Pete Zidlicky.

Elijah Cummings, 68

A HUGE loss for Maryland and our nation. RIP.

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