I remember hearing that Little Feat was Mick Jagger's favourite band.

I Have this CD and it is great. Little Feat Duets with many other musicians. Worth getting and listening to over and over.

Little-Feat-And-Friends-Join-The-Band

https://www.tmz.com/2019/11/02/actor...drug-overdose/
Tarantina’s clip in Uncle Buck was so perfect as was Candy’s

Marie Lafortêt, actress and star of Purple Noon (based on The Talented Mr. Ripley), died at age 80, on Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Genolier, Switzerland.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/m...oret-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Mr._Ripley

Just learned Willie Brown the great db with the Raiders for forever died in October. He was incredible, possibly the GOAT or at least for his time anyway. And a class act too. He was 78.

Robert Freeman, celebrity photographer, died in London, England on Wednesday, November 7, 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/a...pher-dead.html

Fred Cox died, Vikings kicker back in the 60s and 70s, the old-school square-toed type. Evidently he also invented the awesome Nerf football, I didn't even know that about him! I loved my Nerf football.

Fred Cox! Back when NFL kickers looked like 40 year old, balding gym teachers.

Groza, Blanda, my personal hero Gogolak...

Cox actually had a full head of buzzcut iirc, and Blanda a luxurious sideburned long gray man-mane in the 70s classic style. Blanda was my second favorite Raider behind Daryle Lamonica I'd say. Loved my Raiders!

Blanda was such a bad-ass, he'd won the first 2 AFL titles as star qb with the Oilers pre-tv, 60 and 61 but people now only remember his Raiders old-man years in the 70s.

Michael J. Pollard, actor, dead at age 80, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at Los Angeles, California.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/m...gtype=Homepage

awwwwww

Let's not forget Garo "I gonna keeek a touchdown" Yepremian. (Who played in Super Bowl VIII opposite Fred Cox.)

I'm still pissed that he ruined what would have been an epic ending to Miami's undefeated season in 1972. With the Dolphins up 14-0 with a little over 2 minutes remaining in Super Bowl VII, Garo trotted out onto the field to attempt a field goal. If he had made that kick, Miami would have completed their 17-0 undefeated season by winning the Super Bowl by a score of 17-0.

17-0 & 17 to 0. Perfect.

Instead, he kicked the ball low into the line, and when the blocked kick bounced back to him, he attempted the most ridiculous pass in the history of the sport at any level. And that includes pee-wee football. A Redskins defender picked the ball out of midair and returned it for a TD, making the final score a deceptively close 14-7.

Ugh.

Blanda was playing for the NFL in 1949. They hadn't even invented hair back then.

Gahan Wilson, a cartoonist famous for his unusual sense of humor, died on Thursday, November 21, 2019, in Scottsdale, Arizona, at age 89.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/a...lson-dead.html

Wat Misaka, the first non-white player in the NBA, died, at age 95, on November 21, 2019, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...559_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...bdc_story.html
Clive James...obit well worth reading even if just for the quips about Raymond Chandler, Arnold (yes that Arnold) others

A few Clive James quotes

Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

Speer never made the mistake of saying there were no extermination camps. He said he didn't know about them. He impressed the gullible by declaring himself willing to accept responsibility for Nazi crimes even though he was not aware of their full scope. But as the man better informed about the Reich's industrial resources than anybody else including Hitler, Speer was in fact fully aware of the purpose and the extent of the Final Solution and by pretending he was not he did the opposite of accepting responsibility.
Speer cheated the rope, cheated the world, and yet further insulted the shades of innocent millions. Those of us who live by our brains should remember his example, which serves to prove that intellect confers no automatic moral superiority. Otherwise we will meet him again in the Infernal Regions, and be once more confronted with that look of puzzled concern, as if there were something difficult, ponderable, and equivocal about the rights and wrongs of tearing children from their mothers' arms, piling their little shoes in heaps, and pushing their twisted corpses into ovens.

He famously described Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his bodybuilding days, as looking like "a brown condom full of walnuts".

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

"... Two of the worst Australian spiders are the funnel-web and the trap-door. One is even more lethal than the other but I can't remember which. [...] The funnel-web is a ping-pong ball in a fox-fur. [...] But the real horror among spiders was more likely to be encountered in the lavatory itself. This was the red-back. [...] It had the awkward habit, in unsewered areas like ours, of lurking under the lavatory seat. If a red-back bit you on the behind you were left with the awkward problem of where to put the tourniquet and not long to think about it. Nor could you ask anyone to suck out the poison, unless you knew them very well indeed. ..."


I would recommend Unreliable Memoirs, if only for the advice on the best way of shitting your Pants.. and the story of the “Dunny Man”

TY

Yes, thanks. Great read.

William D.Ruckelshaus, who defied Nixon's order to fire Archibald Cox as part of the Saturday Night massacre, died at age 87 on November 27, 2019, at Medina, Washington.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...559_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/u...haus-dead.html

A few more Clive James quotes,

On Marilyn Monroe: ‘She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

‘You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.’

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

‘I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead.’

On Game of Thrones:-

The real problem is that Jon Snow is no more expressive than the zombies.
In this, I think, the casting has given us an ideal representative; for we, too, would be facially immobile at the prospect of forever defending a prop wall against an infinitude of implacable digital effects with no let-up in the lack of interest

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.

‘Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.’

religions are advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist

My idea of a fine wine was one that merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel.

The whole secret of raising a fart in class is to make it sound as if it is punctuating, or commenting upon, what the teacher is saying. Timing, not ripeness, is all. 'And since x tends to y as c tends to d,' Fred expounded, 'then the differential of the increment of x squared must be... must be... come on, come on! What must it flaming be?' Here was the chance to to give my version of what it must be. I armed one, opened the bomb bay, and let it go. Unfortunately, the results far exceeded the discreet limits I had intended. It sounded like a moose coughing.

I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual, because it has so many syllables in it.

When the bell rang to start the Italian hunting season, devotees of la caccia drove at full speed into the woods and shot everything that moved. Since the animals were sensibly lying low, most of the victims were people. Advancing at random through woods, the hunters - whose minds, like their expensive guns, were on a hair trigger - fired when they thought they saw something. Often they had seen each other. They also killed civilians in nearby villages. The occasional animal got hit, but only by a fluke. One man blasted a rabbit that was already hanging from another man's belt. So much vehicular traffic on the woodland roads, however, ensured that a considerable amount of wildlife was run over

I still haven’t forgiven C. S. Lewis for going on all those long walks with J. R. R. Tolkien and failing to strangle him, thus to save us from hundreds of pages dripping with the wizardly wisdom of Gandalf and from the kind of movie in which Orlando Bloom defiantly flexes his delicate jaw at thousands of computer-generated orcs. In fact it would have been ever better if C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien could have strangled each other, so that we could also have been saved from the Chronicles of Narnia.

From his TV criticism column:-

Every week I watch Stuart Hall on It's A Knock-Out and realise with renewed despair that the most foolish thing I ever did was to turn in my double-0 licence and hand back that Walther PPK with the short silencer.

Solzhenitsyn can imagine what pain is like when it happens to strangers. Even more remarkably, he is not disabled by imagining what pain is like when it happens to a million strangers - he can think about individuals even when the subject is the obliteration of the masses, which makes his the exact reverse of the ideological mentality, which can think only about masses even when the subject is the obliteration of individuals.

[In Marcel Ophuls' film The Memory of Justice] Mad old Nazis were to be heard deploring modern decadence. 'The difference is, we weren't obsessed with smut,' said one comfortable, retired SS man, all unaware of being up to his neck in blood and pus.

The full facts about Nazi Germany came out quite quickly, and were more than enough to induce despair. The full facts about the Soviet Union were slower to become generally appreciated, but when they at last were, the despair was compounded. The full facts about Mao's China left that compounded despair looking like an inadequate response. After Mao, not even Pol Pot came as a surprise. Sadly, he was a cliché.

On Jonathan Miller(Who died the same day as James)

Back in the late 1950s, on the sleeve of the Beyond the Fringe record album, Jonathan Miller made a dark joke about his worst fear: being tortured for information that he did not possess. The assumption behind the joke was that if he had something to reveal, the agony would stop. He was looking back to a world of polite British fiction, not to a world of brute European fact. In the Nazi and Soviet cellars and camps, people were regularly tortured for information they did not possess: i.e. they were tortured just for the hell of it.


The Italian Marxist composer Luigi Nono proclaims the necessity for contemporary music to 'intervene' in something called 'the sonic reality of our time.' Apparently it should do this by being as tuneless as possible.


Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Santayana was probably wrong when he said that those who forget the past are condemned to relive it. Those who remember are condemned to relive it too.

And finally :

‘Stop worrying… nobody gets out of this world alive

Of all the devastating quotes...this one...Memo to W.H.
“I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual, because it has so many syllables in it.”

Irving Burgie, the songwriter of Day-O and many others, died on Friday, November 30, 2019, at age 95 in Brooklyn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50619991

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/a...rgie-dead.html

Selected performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4