I came here to post about John Prine. He's a bit of a meme here in the Lounge, but I think he is legitimately loved and will be missed.

This

RIP John Prine, he was one of my favorites

He aint hurtin nobody. Aint hurtin no one.

damn damn damn

Now he gets to have a vodka and ginger ale, smoke a cigarette 9 miles long and meetup with brother Doug...When I get to heaven

You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness.

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

From March 29, 2020, in What are you listening to today?
thread.

Selected quatrains from John Prine's Hello in There:

John and Linda live in Omaha
And Joe is somewhere on the road
We lost Davy in the Korean war
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore

. . .

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more
She sits and stares through the back door screen
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen

. . .

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello"

I was still in the Army when this came out. AFR wouldn't play it. Guys got copies, made copies, and passed them around. If this is all Prine ever wrote he'd be one of my heroes. Sam Stone just makes it better.

goddammit

RIP

He wrote his own obit
https://youtu.be/JKPDFQRmG_M

Allen Garfield, the great character actor, dead at 80 of this stupid virus.

My favorite Garfield roles are in The Conversation and Let It Ride

Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye!

(From my favorite song, if that is possible; I have so many)

Bye, John Prine.

Two deaths from the NHL world today:

Tom Webster, former player and coach dead at 71. Not sure about cause of death.

Coby Cave of the Oilers dies of a brain bleed. 25 years old.

Brain cancer for Tom Webster

don't know him or follow NHL but RIP all the same

Stirling Moss, one of my boyhood heroes and a man my wife frequently mentioned when I drove, dead at age 90 on April 12, 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/o...moss-dead.html

One of mine, too, and my favorite driver after von Trips died.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missin...nding-him-dims

Peter Beard presumed gone

went to the Wikipedia page for notable deaths in April 2020 and did a search for "COVID"

122 results

So young and talented. Very sad.

RIP Glenn Beckert - All-Star second baseman for the Cubs back in the 60's and 70's. He was both a good hitter and fielder hitting as high as .345 one year. I have never been a Cub fan but always respected Beckert's play. I also got to meet him since we were both traders at the Chicago Board of Trade. After his baseball career ended he became a broker in the wheat pit. I was in the financial room but had a buddy in the wheat pit who introduced us and he seemed like a good guy.