… I don’t know if, you know, getting cancer, going blind, smashing my face in, and generally having a really awful 2023 hasn’t been some weird sort of super-motivation, but I’m working very steady, and I actually think the art has gotten more solid as I go along. I’m also ...
Born November 22, 1940—Terry Gilliam, 82. He’s directed many films of which the vast majority are firmly genre. I think I’ve seen most of them though I though I’ve not seenThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote,Tideland,The Zero TheoremorThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I’ve seen eve...
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He was also a great walker who whiled away many an hour striding across his beloved Hampstead Heath. At the office, one of his many catchphrases was “walkies”, a break-time suggestion to colleagues to leave their desk, join him on a stroll and put the world to rights....
The Chicago Tribune yesterday posted the obituary for Fred Uhlmann, who died early this week. Fred’s memorial gathering is today, May 19, 2023, from 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the Lake Shore Country Club, 1255 Sheridan Rd, Glencoe. I made a donation to the Moraine Township Charita...
➢ Rock enigma Scott Walker dies aged 76 – BBC obituary ➢ Scott Walker obituary by Adam Sweeting – Pop singer who rose to fame in the 1960s and went on to become an enigmatic solo artist Scott Walker with Jarvis Cocker in 2017: a rich conversation about Scott’s life and times en...
RIP Metaverse; An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard Ed Zitron – Insider The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was ...
“María Kodama, Keeper of the Borges Legacy, Dies at 86.”NYThas an obituary. Authors On Air NPR’sAll Things Consideredcelebrates National Poetry Month with Franny Choi,The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On(Ecco;LJstarred review). ...
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