Mister.Weirdo's Memorial Thread For Those Who Will NOT Be Down For Breakfast

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Already posted, but RIP!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/enter...ath/index.html

Ed King, the Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist who co-wrote the Southern rock anthem, "Sweet Home Alabama," has died.

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This obit will be coming up soon.

I'm NOT a fan of McCain, who never saw a war he didn't like and who never passed up a chance to cut taxes for the wealthy. But when McCain developed terminal brain cancer, Trump should have shut up about him instead of continuing to kick him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/u...in-cancer.html

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...t-dies-1137244

Robin Leach, the veteran entertainment journalist best known for his work on TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died Thursday night. He was 76.

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This obit will be coming up soon.

I'm NOT a fan of McCain, who never saw a war he didn't like and who never passed up a chance to cut taxes for the wealthy. But when McCain developed terminal brain cancer, Trump should have shut up about him instead of continuing to kick him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/u...in-cancer.html

Nobody should be a fan of McCain, unless you have an R next to your name. Dude was a total phony, and not a good person. Cancer is terrible regardless, and I hope he spends his final days well.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...t-dies-1137244

Robin Leach, the veteran entertainment journalist best known for his work on TV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died Thursday night. He was 76.

That show did a lot to promote and make acceptable the gross disparities in wealth that we see now, and that are getting worse by the day.

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For a while the surviving members did refuse to use the name and made new bands that were quite good and forged a new path. Eventually they couldn't resist using the LS name. I just don't consider them to be Skynyrd. Like you said the real band left us in 77 when the plane crash happened. 5 albums and a live album are all that count for me. And Ed King was a huge part of that.

I think if the plane crash hadn't happened the band still would have ended soon anyway. All those guys were on self destructive paths and werent long for this world. A lot of great music though.

There were too many drugs around then, and they were too easy to get. Anyone who went to a party would be offered drugs. Also, it was as if rock stars were SUPPOSED to indulge in drug taking. Or at least in excessive alcohol consumption. That was part of the whole package.

Paul McCartney said a guy who he considered a friend tried to talk him into trying heroin. That's how it was back then.

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Nobody should hold public office past age 80. McCain is dying, and Cochran and Hatch are clearly suffering from cognitive decline.

https://infogalactic.com/info/List_o...enators_by_age

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That show did a lot to promote and make acceptable the gross disparities in wealth that we see now, and that are getting worse by the day.

It's funny because when that show was peaking Leach was asked about that kind of thing and said that people tended to read into the show whatever they believed. If you bought into 80s excess and carried a copy of The Art of War to work, then you tended to say "hey, cool, I want that too!" If you read Marx and associated Reagan with the devil, then you still checked it out to make fun of those soulless worshippers of consumerism.

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Comic Book Artist Russ Heath Dies at 91

American comic book artist Russ Heath died Thursday night after a battle with cancer, his grandson, Lee Kosa, announced. He was 91.

"My grandfather and legendary comic artist Russ Heath passed away last night. His mastery of the craft of illustration encouraged me to pursue the arts and it is a joy to see my son now filling his own sketchbooks," he wrote on Twitter. "Thank you for passing along the joys of drawing and storytelling."

The artist had lived in Van Nuys, California, for 40 years before moving to a retirement community in Long Beach, where he died. A winner of multiple awards — including the National Cartoonists Society’s Milton Caniff Award in 2014 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame five years earlier — Heath’s career lasted from 1948 until 2011, and included work for multiple publishers in multiple genres. This included Marvel’s Two-Gun Kid and Kid Colt, DC’s Our Army at War and The Haunted Tank and the famous Little Annie Fanny strip in Playboy.

Most recently, he came out of retirement for Marvel’s The Immortal Iron Fist No. 20 in 2009, as well as for illustrations in the independent series glamourpuss in 2010 and 2011.

Perhaps most famously, Heath’s work on DC’s All-American Men of War No. 89 in 1962 was the source material for pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings “Brattata,” “Whaam!” and “Blam,” produced in 1962 and 1963. In 2014, Heath wrote and drew a comic strip about Lichtenstein’s appropriation of his work, titled “Bottle of Wine,” in which he wrote, “The Museum of Modern Art invited me to the opening when they displayed it. However, I couldn’t make it due to deadlines… but I figure Lichtenstein owed me a drink at least.”

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ies-81-n790971

"John McCain, who shed a playboy image in his youth to become a fighter pilot, revered prisoner of war and both an independent voice in the Republican Party and its 2008 presidential nominee, died on Saturday, little more than a year after he was told he had brain cancer. He was 81."

Can't say he was a good person, but he did have a decent political career, and cancer is horrible. RIP!!!

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"John McCain, who shed a playboy image in his youth to become a fighter pilot, revered prisoner of war and both an independent voice in the Republican Party and its 2008 presidential nominee, died on Saturday, little more than a year after he was told he had brain cancer. He was 81."

Can't say he was a good person, but he did have a decent political career, and cancer is horrible. RIP!!!

He also suffered badly as a POW in Vietnam and seemed to handle it with honor. It also led to him sharing at least one issue with his liberal opponents---a strong opposition to any form of torture-based interrogation and criticism of what we were doing in Gitmo post-911.

Personally, I was once hopeful for him as a more independent-minded Republican, but as his '08 campaign gathered steam he seemed to drift further right and closer to mainstream GOP.

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Personally, I was once hopeful for him as a more independent-minded Republican, but as his '08 campaign gathered steam he seemed to drift further right and closer to mainstream GOP.

Trump talked like a different kind of Republican too, for a while. He called the wars in the Middle East bullshit and said we should pull our troops out of there. But that didn't last long. It never does. Somebody behind the scenes always manages to "talk sense" into any politicians who think things like that.

McCain would have surely escalated those conflicts if he had been elected president.

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i'm not gonna say what i want to say about McCain so i'll just say RIP and leave it at that ( must keep my opinion to self can't say how i really feel right now don't want to start a war of words that will only get me banned must be the better man must be the better man )

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This obit will be coming up soon.

I'm NOT a fan of McCain, who never saw a war he didn't like and who never passed up a chance to cut taxes for the wealthy. But when McCain developed terminal brain cancer, Trump should have shut up about him instead of continuing to kick him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/u...in-cancer.html

That happened even faster than I would have thought.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/25/p...ary/index.html