Lives in a Shoe

Dick Dale, RIP

I saw him in 1961 at the Northridge Stampede.  Then again in 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.  

Variety has a pretty good obit, here.  He was 81.

Goodbye

 From Kurt:

Winter '97 tower records, lower Queen Anne. There's always that moment when someone is browsing the opposite direction. Inevitably someone will have to go around the other. I don't know why but I get anxiety about this. Anyway as I reach the guy moving my direction, I look up awkwardly to excuse myself around him, he looks at me with what I perceive as the same anxiety, we exchange a nod and move on, as I realize it's a very stoned Chris Cornell. I went outside with my girlfriend at the time for a cig.
Chris came out just after us. As he did, he stopped and turned to us as though he expected us to stop him. I just smiled and said hi, "oh hey" he said awkwardly, then slowly walked away. "Damn it I should have offered to smoke him out!" I said to Annie. He looked over his shoulder but kept going. We watched him start his big ram truck, then duck down, followed by the flicker of a bick. I half felt it was an invitation, but the moment had passed...and the moment has passed..

 

 

 

Godspeed John Glenn

Now he is starlight.

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Jul 18, 1921 - Dec 08, 2016

(age 95)

Rest in peace, sir.

Didn't We Throw A Concert For These Assholes?

Kathy Shaidle asks, after an American blogger is hacked to death in Bangladesh. 

A previously unknown militant group, Ansar Bangla 7, claimed responsibility for the attack, Assistant Police Commissioner S.M.  Shibly Noman told the Prothom Alo newspaper.

Roy "was the target because of his crime against Islam," the group said on Twitter.

http://mukto-mona.com/ "We are United in Grief..."

Wikipedia. 

Herald Price Fahringer Has Died At 87

“Freedom is only meaningful if it includes all speech, no matter who is offended by it,” he said. “It would be a hazardous undertaking for anyone to start separating the permissible speech from the impermissible, using the standard of offensiveness.The freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment is indivisible. You can’t take it away from Larry Flynt and keep it for yourself. The real issue of this case is: Are we afraid to be free?”

Obituary is here.