Dropping Like Flies

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

the twitter back story to this is fascinating:

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/11/how-dave-stroup-convinced-the-d-c-blogosphere-that-black-cat-bill-was-dead-69761.html

[chaz]

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser. 

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's. 

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

[Yada]

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser. 

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's. 

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

Bunch of fuckin' slacktovists.

[chaz]

Everybody loves you when you're dead.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser. 

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's. 

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

One suspects that the fundraiser would've been more about the people and blogs putting it on, rather than person it was purportedly for.    That's harder to do when the guy's still alive.

[rich_WDC]

Hubert Sumlin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hubert-sumlin-legendary-blues-guitarist-for-howlin-wolf-who-influenced-eric-clapton-and-jimi-hendrix-has-died/2011/12/05/gIQAgh2dXO_story.html

[kosmo vinyl]

Dobie Gray

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/16204592/singer-songwriter-dobie-gray-passes-away

The In Crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upwrq1QZKV8

[Justin Tonation]

Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter on ?M*A*S*H,? Dies at 96

[i am gay and i like cats]

Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter on ?M*A*S*H,? Dies at 96

he was my favourite on that show.  him and the klinger made it for me.

[grateful]

Update

[i am gay and i like cats]

is it ironic, with all the blood at a gwar show over the years . . . that the poor guy would die of a blood clot?

[slappy]

Gilles Peterson Worldwide show on BBC1
http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/2011/12/gilles-p-to-leave-bbc-radio-1-after-13-amazing-years/

Sucks for not getting the live recordings from Maida Vale anymore. But I'm sure we'll get his next venture streaming on the web.

[Jaguar]

Christopher Hitchens

[sweetcell]

Grinderman
http://www.spinner.com/2011/12/12/grinderman-break-up-nick-cave/

matisyahu's beard (and religiosity?)
http://www.spinner.com/2011/12/13/matisyahu-beard-pictures/

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

http://gawker.com/5868761/christopher-hitchens-unforgivable-mistake