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I had a feeling she wasn't going to last long. She cancelled her tour due to back problems and she had a suicide attempt in 2013.
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I had a feeling she wasn't going to last long. She cancelled her tour due to back problems and she had a suicide attempt in 2013.
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Former Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/report-former-judas-priest-drummer-dave-holland-dead-at-69/
I heard that Eddie Trunk and Juan Croucier of all people were saying this was a hoax earlier. But apparently it was not.
Dave Holland was convicted of attempted rape on a 17 year old boy that he was giving drum lessons to back in 2004. The boy was special needs.
Regardless of that it sucks that all of these guys aren't getting any younger and their numbers are really starting to come up.
I heard that Eddie Trunk and Juan Croucier of all people were saying this was a hoax earlier. But apparently it was not.
Dave Holland was convicted of attempted rape on a 17 year old boy that he was giving drum lessons to back in 2004. The boy was special needs.
Regardless of that it sucks that all of these guys aren't getting any younger and their numbers are really starting to come up.
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R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin.
Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88 in Portland, Ore. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class divisions to feminist theory.
Her agent Ginger Clark confirmed Le Guin's death to NPR.
Across the decadeslong span of her career — from her first short story submission at the age of 11, to her tireless work well into her 80s — Le Guin stood as a towering figure in science fiction and fantasy. Indeed, she completed a triple crown of the genres' biggest prizes, earning the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards several times over.
Still, while Le Guin deployed alien planets and impossible societies in her novels, fellow Hugo winner Mary Robinette Kowal told NPR's Petra Mayer that Le Guin's work could not be confined to a simple label found atop bookstore shelves.
"Throughout her life she embraced new forms of technology, she was constantly pushing boundaries and barriers, that is inspiring to me," Kowal said.
"She was one of the first really big voices in science fiction and fantasy who was a woman," she added. "And I think she did a lot for science-fiction and fantasy — not just for women and women's roles because of her feminism, but also legitimizing us as an art form. There are a lot of people who will read an Ursula Le Guin book and go, 'Well, this isn't science fiction, it's literature. But of course, it is science fiction. A lot of times, she can be a gateway drug for people."
For evidence of this mainstream respect, a reader need look no further than the lifetime achievement honors bestowed on her at the 2014 National Book Awards — where she also delivered a fiery defense of the practice of literature as a whole.
"Hard times are coming," she warned, "when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality."
Many of those writers deeply mourned her passing on Tuesday.
"Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul," Neil Gaiman tweeted. "I miss her as a glorious funny prickly person, & I miss her as the deepest and smartest of the writers, too."
And those words will live beyond her death Monday, ringing loudly between the covers of novels like The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven.
"Writing is a kind of way of speaking, and I hear it," Le Guin told Weekend Edition in 2015. "And I think a lot of readers hear it, too. Even if they hear it in silence."
Ursula K. Le Guin, a prolific novelist best known for the Earthsea series and The Left Hand of Darkness, died Monday at the age of 88 in Portland, Ore. Across more than 20 novels and scores of short stories, Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class divisions to feminist theory.
Her agent Ginger Clark confirmed Le Guin's death to NPR.
Across the decadeslong span of her career — from her first short story submission at the age of 11, to her tireless work well into her 80s — Le Guin stood as a towering figure in science fiction and fantasy. Indeed, she completed a triple crown of the genres' biggest prizes, earning the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards several times over.
Still, while Le Guin deployed alien planets and impossible societies in her novels, fellow Hugo winner Mary Robinette Kowal told NPR's Petra Mayer that Le Guin's work could not be confined to a simple label found atop bookstore shelves.
"Throughout her life she embraced new forms of technology, she was constantly pushing boundaries and barriers, that is inspiring to me," Kowal said.
"She was one of the first really big voices in science fiction and fantasy who was a woman," she added. "And I think she did a lot for science-fiction and fantasy — not just for women and women's roles because of her feminism, but also legitimizing us as an art form. There are a lot of people who will read an Ursula Le Guin book and go, 'Well, this isn't science fiction, it's literature. But of course, it is science fiction. A lot of times, she can be a gateway drug for people."
For evidence of this mainstream respect, a reader need look no further than the lifetime achievement honors bestowed on her at the 2014 National Book Awards — where she also delivered a fiery defense of the practice of literature as a whole.
"Hard times are coming," she warned, "when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality."
Many of those writers deeply mourned her passing on Tuesday.
"Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul," Neil Gaiman tweeted. "I miss her as a glorious funny prickly person, & I miss her as the deepest and smartest of the writers, too."
And those words will live beyond her death Monday, ringing loudly between the covers of novels like The Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven.
"Writing is a kind of way of speaking, and I hear it," Le Guin told Weekend Edition in 2015. "And I think a lot of readers hear it, too. Even if they hear it in silence."
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RIP Dennis Edwards, lead singer of the Temptations.
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You tend to notice people in the animation industry have very long lives.
One guy who still around is Don Lusk, he turned 104 last October.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/happy-104th-birthday-disney-legend-don-lusk-154273.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lusk
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Pat Torpey, Mr. Big drummer.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mr-big-drummer-pat-torpey-dies-at-58/
He had Parkinson's. Despite his illness he was still brought on tour to perform a portion of the songs. But he couldn't do an entire show. It's really admirable how loyal the rest of the band was to him. They still considered him a member even when it became clear he'd have to be replaced full time.
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mr-big-drummer-pat-torpey-dies-at-58/
He had Parkinson's. Despite his illness he was still brought on tour to perform a portion of the songs. But he couldn't do an entire show. It's really admirable how loyal the rest of the band was to him. They still considered him a member even when it became clear he'd have to be replaced full time.
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When I read the "RIP Freddy", at first I thought Robert England had died. (I'm relieved he's still with us.)
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RIP Johann Johannsson
Composer for Sicario, The Theory of Everything, The Arrval, and almost Blade Runner 2049. Cause of Death unknown ATM.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ry-composer-behind-sicario-dies-at-48-1083619
Composer for Sicario, The Theory of Everything, The Arrval, and almost Blade Runner 2049. Cause of Death unknown ATM.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ry-composer-behind-sicario-dies-at-48-1083619
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RIP to the Florida school shooting victims and coach Aaron Feis who threw himself as a human shield to protect some children who were being targeted.
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I don't recall ever really watching his stuff a lot, at a young age, I knew him for the constant TV specilas he had in the 80's, ones that my local CBS affiliate would always show, especially to ruin my fun as they would dump out of a holiday special for them, so my opinion of Billy Graham isn't very favorable, but I'm not very religious to say the least.
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RIP to Bob O'Donnell: Halo series composer Martin O'Donnell's father, who also played the Prophet of Objection in Halo 2, Dr. Kerr in Oni(Bungie's only anime game) and the Drunk Dwarf in Myth: The Fallen Lords