DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[ChiTownScion]

Underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson died February 7, 2021 after a long illness. He had a very surreal, gross, and often violent aspect to his works that included, "The Hog Riding Fools," "Captain ****gums and His Pervert Pirates," and "Ruby the ****." The Checkered Demon is likely his most famous character.

 

[Frunobulax]

Underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson died February 7, 2021 after a long illness. He had a very surreal, gross, and often violent aspect to his works that included, "The Hog Riding Fools," "Captain ****gums and His Pervert Pirates," and "Ruby the ****." The Checkered Demon is likely his most famous character.

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I would not have been able to tell you his name, but I recognize the artwork.

 

[Nobert]

Underground cartoonist S. Clay Wilson died February 7, 2021 after a long illness. He had a very surreal, gross, and often violent aspect to his works that included, "The Hog Riding Fools," "Captain ****gums and His Pervert Pirates," and "Ruby the ****." The Checkered Demon is likely his most famous character.

Well, that's kind of sad. If I'm honest, I never could abide most of his stuff (which I found vile for no other reason than shock value), but when he dialed it back he could make some eerily interesting comics. A great talent, if not to my taste.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Larry Flynt has died, aged 78.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/larry-flynt-dead-dies-obit-obituary-1.5909777

 

[OldStrummer]

Jazz keyboard great Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea) of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. I had the pleasure of seeing him and the band Return to Forever in concert. Awesome!

 

[belfastboy]

Jazz keyboard great Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea) of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. I had the pleasure of seeing him and the band Return to Forever in concert. Awesome!

Damn, the shocking aspect is that he is 79....how the hell did that happen?

 

[Worf]

Jazz keyboard great Chick Corea (born Armando Anthony Corea) of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. I had the pleasure of seeing him and the band Return to Forever in concert. Awesome!

Saw him and RtF lives in a gymnasium at Syracuse University in 1974. Amazing band amazing musicians. Sigh... when I was playing bass in High School (Classical and RnB) "Fusion" or Jazz with the anger and immediacy of Rock, hit me and my fellows like an Atom Bomb. John and Mahavishnu Orchestra, RtF and Weather Report blew our collective minds. Wow, what a mighty time.

Worf

 

[Mister Cairo]

Well-known as the emcee or "cape man" for James Brown, Danny Ray died on 2nd of February, aged 85. He was sent off in fitting style, with a cape draped over his coffin!

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertain...h-shiny-cape/ar-BB1dHc8h?li=BBqdc3x&ocid=iehp

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...BA971B872BFBEF1495FDBA9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

 

[Mister Cairo]

Salsa legend and record producer Johnny Pacheco has died, aged 85:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...ol-in-world-of-salsa-dies-at-age-85-1.5310443

 

[OldStrummer]

Rush Limbaugh.

Just announced by his wife, Catherine. On Rush's radio program today (2/17/2021).

 

[Mister Cairo]

I discovered Rush in the . early 90s via his syndicated TV show. I remember as well his feud with talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael as they filmed at the same studio, and his appearance as himself on the sitcom Hearts Afire, dancing with show co-star Conchata Ferrel, a known critic of Limbaugh's in real life (I just discovered she died recently, last last year).

Say what you want, he was a force of nature.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/c...h-dead-at-70/ar-BB1dLMie?ocid=iehp&li=AAggNb9

 

[Zombie_61]

Rush Limbaugh.

Just announced by his wife, Catherine. On Rush's radio program today (2/17/2021).

Nothing at all. As in, "If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all."

 

[Harp]

RIP Rush.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Speaking from the perspective of a historian of American broadcasting, and understanding that he was the latest link in a chain that extends back to Brinkley, Henderson, and Coughlin, it's safe to say that no one man did more to create the present media climate in the United States than he did.

 

[belfastboy]

Speaking from the perspective of a historian of American broadcasting, and understanding that he was the latest link in a chain that extends back to Brinkley, Henderson, and Coughlin, it's safe to say that no one man did more to create the present media climate in the United States than he did.

Gosh you would think those with integrity would not have taken his bait....fallen for his nefarious plot.......too bad someone didn't choose to take the high road. Who is worse the baitor or those that jump down the rabbit hole after him?

 

[Worf]

Nothing at all. As in, "If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all."

Ditto!!!! Mega Dittos!!! I made it a habit to listen to Rush because you need to know how others "think" if you're going to try and understand and/or communicate with them. The ONLY time I ever heard him compliment Obama was after the Church shooting several years ago. He stated that "had Obama not spoken so well and with such forgiveness, things in this country could've really turned bad". Of course with the change in administrations his tone and tenor changed completely and often.

Worf

 

[Mister Cairo]

^^^^

QED

 

[Harp]

...it's safe to say that no one man did more to
create the present media climate in the United States than he did.

Limbaugh's reliance espousal, philosophically provocative, garnered more disapprobation than justified
and those intolerant failed to sufficiently raise said thrown gauntlet. But that society as a whole profits
when public debate is vigorous; replete with bias, difference, even enmity perhaps, cannot be objectively
denied nor is truth the sole possession of individual claim right but a shared societal responsibility.
Pejorative attribute as to clime is false, collective media disquiet is better honestly apportioned.

 

[LizzieMaine]

W. K. Henderson, when challenged over his use of extreme rhetoric on his radio broadcasts in the 1920s, made a very revealing statement: "People don't want gentle talk. They want it strong. They want to hear you ride somebody." This has been the philosophy and technique of pretty much every proclaimer of what might be called "nationalist populism" on the American air since that time. It's less about factual, thoughtful debate and more about shock, sensation, and increasingly-extreme attention-grabbing tactics designed not to persuade the opposition but to rile the base -- and to, not incidentally, fatten the personal calf of the commentator.

Not all broadcasters from the political right have followed this method -- it's dominated among nationalist populists, but there have been conservative-leaning broadcasters who did not go down that path. For many years here in New England, we had David Brudnoy over WBZ in Boston -- a gentle, intellectual Libertarian conservative and a good and decent man who conducted himself, and his program with great personal dignity. He treated every interview, whether with a guest or a caller, as a conversation, not an occasion to preach to a congregation of followers, and he never forced his beliefs on anyone. The program was never an echo chamber, and even after the coarsening and steady degradation of talk radio in the 90s, Brudnoy insisted on maintaining the highest standard of discourse. But when he died in 2004, the last little flickering bit of talk radio's dignity and integrity died with him.

Henderson, Brinkley, and Coughlin all operated before the Fairness Doctrine existed. We've seen the direction the broadcast media has taken since its elimination. Mr. Limbaugh was the first broadcaster to take full advantage of the elimination of that law, and the national demons he unleashed in doing so have produced less an atmosphere of vigorous, reasoned debate than of performative, pro-rassling-style pandering-to-the-base -- from both sides -- that has grown more extreme -- and more irresponsible -- by the year. And I submit that America as a nation is far the worse for it. The whirlwind recently reaped was the inevitable result of winds long sown.

The prosecution rests.

 

[Harp]

Mr. Limbaugh was the first broadcaster to take full advantage of the elimination of that law, and the national demons he unleashed in doing so have produced less an atmosphere of vigorous, reasoned debate than of performative, pro-rassling-style pandering-to-the-base -- from both sides -- that has grown more extreme -- and more irresponsible -- by the year. And I submit that America as a nation is far the worse for it. The whirlwind recently reaped was the inevitable result of winds long sown.

The prosecution rests.

Defense requests motion for direct verdict as prosecution fails evidentiary constituent element requisite subject.

Limbaugh never opened Hesiod's Pandoran Box, itself a vengeance against Prometheus for gifting fire to men
and after listening to his radio lectures for thirty years I attest most vigorously his reason, acumen and honesty.
Any failure of inchoate debate and incisive rhetoric has nothing to do with Tinkers to Evers to Chance lineage,
tenuous chain facetious claim, subsequent, but to the intellectual bankruptcy of an intolerant opposition.
Progressivism has been prostrate philosophically since its Great Society sunder amidst inevitable reckon
with human nature. Current reclaim used as bludgeon emphasizes this lack.
Inheritance of wind and vortex populism is historically attributed through time and literature,
with Burke its most prescient scribe; although recent indigenous reap is traceable to current vindictive
harvest sown by incessant prosecution. This is a terrible consequence that History has repeatedly warned.