Rest in peace, Sinéad O’Connor. In 1990, she refused to appear on Saturday Night Live because the program was hosted by misogynist creep Andrew Dice Clay, who was inexplicably popular at the time. In 1992, O’Connor did appear on SNL, and this happened: Damn if she wasn’t right again. She was a troubled soul and …
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RIP Gordon Moore
Some lives span an entire transformation, the complete journey from before to after. Gordon Moore proposed Moore’s law in 1965: that the number of transistors that could be included on a chip would double roughly every two years. That prediction held up for at least half a century, and may have a bit more road …
Rest in Peace, Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch in the Muppet show still lives rent free in my brain. pic.twitter.com/t18yIOJLJz — Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) February 15, 2023 There’s worse reasons to be remembered. Per the NYTimes, many memorable photos [unpaywalled ‘gift’ link]: … She was invariably described as a sex symbol, though she never posed nude for the camera in any …
David Crosby, R.I.P.
Shit. Just damn. I know he was–to put it most gently–a strong personality. That voice, though, and the music… We’re losing some great ones. Rest in power, Mr. Crosby.
RIP, Tammy Whitacre
Tammy Whitacre (Patterson) died this morning. Her husband went to the bathroom early in the morning, and found her slumped over in a chair in the office. That is all we know. Tammy was my best friend, my soulmate, my surrogate wife, the best dog mom to ever exist, and one of the greatest people …
RIP Lily Cole (????-2022)
I woke up this morning and Lily was asleep in her dog bed underneath my desk, so I went to take a shower after feeding Steve. After showering, I came into the office, and Lily had somehow gotten wedged underneath my office chair, with all four legs splayed out, lying in a puddle of urine. …
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
An era ends: Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and relaxed Communist Party controls in hopes of rescuing the faltering Soviet state but instead propelled it …