Archive for Passing
Sunday Morning Music
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The great Dennis Hopper died yesterday. For more than a half a century, he blazed a wild trail…from Rebel Without A Cause to Easy Rider to Blue Velvet. He will be very missed.
Sunday Morning Music
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Doug Fieger (1952–2010) the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of The Knack. This was taped live at Carnegie Hall in 1979.
RIP JD Salinger
Posted by: | CommentsThis man changed my life with Nine Stories, Seymour: an Introduction, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Franny and Zooey. Â Here’s hoping he’s got two hundred manuscripts squirelled away, and we get to read him for another hundred years.
Farewell, J.D. Salinger. You gave voice to one of the central themes of my life:
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
I’ve Been To The Mountaintop
Posted by: | CommentsToday, as we take time to reflect upon the civil rights struggle and the philosophy of nonviolence, let’s remember that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. bore the hatred and misgivings of millions of people who said that America was not ready. Remembering that it took decades and centuries of struggle to set the stage for a man as brave and charismatic as Dr. King, we can take heart that as long as we continue to sail our national ship towards the shores of equality, we will arrive. We may lose leaders along the way, but the cause cannot be lost. Humanity’s drive towards freedom and equality will surely overcome the small minds that would stack one person on top of another and call some people unworthy of basic human rights.
Thank you, Dr. King. You showed us a way forward that embodied courage, nonviolence, and inevitable victory.
Sunday Morning Music: Vic Chesnutt
Posted by: | CommentsCelebrated musician James Victor “Vic” Chesnutt (1964-2009) died on Friday afternoon – Christmas day – at a Georgia hospital after suffering an overdose of muscle relaxants.
While a serious car accident left Chesnutt partially paralyzed at the age of 18, his condition did not stop him from writing songs.
More after the jump…
R.I.P. Ted Kennedy
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Barack Obama has praised Ted Kennedy as “the greatest United States senator of our time” as political friends and foes pay tribute to the veteran politician, who has died of a brain tumour
Obama lauded Kennedy for his work on civil rights, health and advancing the economic wellbeing of all Americans. He thanked Kennedy for “his wise counsel in the Senate” and his support in last year’s presidential race. As the party’s elder statesman, Kennedy helped swing the Democratic party behind Obama when he endorsed the Illinois senator rather than the more politically experienced Hillary Clinton.
As the tributes flowed, some of the warmest words came from Republicans including Nancy Reagan, the former first lady.
“Given our political differences, people are sometimes surprised by how close Ronnie and I have been to the Kennedy family. In recent years Ted and I found our common ground in stem cell research, and I considered him an ally and a dear friend. I will miss him,” said Reagan, whose husband, the former president Ronald Reagan, died after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson
Posted by: | CommentsYes he became a bizarre tragedy. Before that he was the King of Pop.
Memorial
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By Walt Whitman
THE last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.
