Joe Diffie dead at 61, prop him up beside a jukebox. Coronavirus victim.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/o...ffie-dead.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...a6d_story.html

Krysztof Penderecki, dead at 86. I saw him conduct.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/a...ecki-dead.html

Michael Sorkin, architect, dead at 71, another coronavirus victim.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/a...rkin-dead.html

This is getting to be too much:

Alan Merrill who wrote I Love Rock 'N' Roll is dead on Sunday, March 29, 2020, at age 69 from coronavirus.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...ns/2938219001/

David Schramm, 73, one of the stars of 80s sitcom, Wings. He always made me laugh.

My 92-year-old father is going to be sad to learn of Schramm's death. Wings is/was his favorite show.

FWIW, it aired throughout most of the 90s, not the 80s.

Ben Luderer, catcher on Don Bosco's undefeated championship team.

Damn, reading his story, and seeing the list of others and their occupations, really enforces the idea that it can happen to anyone.

Hey! That's my high school. I graduated in 1981. Never heard of this guy, but it's a sad story.

Adam Schlessinger, 52, musician, songwriter for Fountains Of Wayne and other projects, including the title song of the film "That Thing You Do", dead of Covid 19 complications, after being hospitalized on a ventilator for two weeks.

This is the closest the virus has hit to me, as an avid indie rock fan only 2 years younger than him. Don't know if he had any prior health conditions making him more vulnerable.

At the beginning of that video, you see a license plate that says "I Ric" because Schlesinger and the others idolized the Cars and Ric Ocasek. This song certainly sounds like The Cars!

Sad to think now they're both gone.

Yeah I heard when they started writing the song, they were trying to make something that sounded like a Cars song. There are also a few parts of the video that are copied from a Cars' music video, but I can't remember which one.

well, the whole coming out of the pool in a red bikini while the kid jerks off in the bathroom is straight from Fast Time at Ridgemont High, which famously played The Car's Moving In Stereo over Phoebe Cates and Judge Reinhold doing the same thing.

Ellis Marsalis, musician, mentor, and father to Delfeayo, Branford and Wynton, dead at age 85 in New Orleans on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, from complications of COVID-19.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/a...ead-virus.html

Oh yeah...but it also has a kid at the beginning of the video wearing Ric's trademark sunglasses and pushing them up on his nose like Ric did in one of the Cars' videos.

A Ric Ocasek kid look-a-like. And the song intro is The Cars. And the intro is The Cars, Just What I Needed with a bit of a different beat.


Ad here we are. RIP to both.

It would be difficult to overstate what a loss this is for music, for jazz, for the U.S. and for the world in general. It can be hard to grasp how important culture is in a world of tweet politics, but it is pervasive and enormous. R.I.P.

I haven't heard from them in a while, but there were a few 60s & 70s Don Bosco alum who used to lurk here. A couple of them still live in the area, but I don't know if there is any east coast poker scene left so I haven't kept in touch.

One I graduated, I never stepped foot on that campus again. Hated that place. Awful Brothers and Priests.

They had a strong basketball program at one time. They were able to recruit players from a wide area. I don't remember them having a baseball team, but they may well have. I knew some kids who went there because they had to, but I've never met anybody who liked it. Also it said they were called the Ironmen -- weren't they the Don Bosco Dons?

Ed Farmer, former pitcher and long time Chicago White Sox radio broadcaster, has died at 70.

“Are you going to be a good boy?”
Since I had seen an Icon of a man nailed to a cross behind her, yes I was going to be a good boy

RIP. Always enjoyed his broadcasts. Hope they get someone good to replace him.

When I was there they were the Ironmen. And the Saints. And we had a Bear mascot, too. So I don't know.

Don Bosco has been known for the last 25 years as one of the best football programs in the nation....I think they were ranked at the top for a few years. I played football for them and was all-county one year. Woo hoo! (no tackles for loss, tho) They weren't very good then.

I also played tennis for 4 years and we always lost in the State finals to Christian Brothers Academy.

Had one priest name Father Savage (really!) who had the top joint of his ring finger missing, and mostly bone showing through. That's what he'd WHAP you with as he walked down the classroom aisle between the desks. I can still feel it on my noggin.

The Religious instruction teacher at my school once dragged a kid off his chair, threw him to the floor and beat him around the head with a copy of the bible

The French teacher would regularly throw a set of compasses at peoples heads. I think that a lot of this behaviour was caused by undiagnosed PTS from experiences during WW2