Celebrity death that bummed you out the most... - Page 15

jonesieQ · 06-10-2006, 04:29 PM

Has anyone mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughn? I never imagined I would see him in concert, but he performed at an out-of-the-way concert series one summer, and I did get to see him. A stroke of fate, I thought. Especially when he died 6 weeks later. What a phenomenal loss to the world of blues.

Ibby · 06-14-2006, 06:56 PM

Billy Preston, the "fifth beatle", died on the sixth...

Elspode · 06-14-2006, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

Billy Preston, the "fifth beatle", died on the sixth...

http://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=214

Ibby · 06-15-2006, 04:23 PM

Oops. My bad. I really should read better...

Elspode · 06-15-2006, 11:52 PM

No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately.

disenchanted · 06-16-2006, 02:15 AM

Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

lookout123 · 06-23-2006, 11:05 PM

Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life.

lookout123 · 06-27-2006, 10:40 PM

Eddie is kaput. The little dog that caused people to think Jack Russel terriers were a good idea is chasing bumpers in heaven.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=226276&GT1=7703

richlevy · 07-04-2006, 09:41 AM

Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked.

In an era where a lot of 'intellectual property' companies were aggressively pursuing methods to squeeze profits from legacy content, limit sales to libraries and even went so far as to fine 12-year-old girls in an effort to sow fear among their consumers, Baen Books made it their policy to give away old content for free to build new readership.

This approach showed the kind of innovation that is completely foreign to a large corporation.

RIP Jim, and I hope the ********ers at Sony don't get their hands on your legacy.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2006, 09:51 AM

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Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history,
all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled,
watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.

Mister Jalopy

Tse Moana · 07-05-2006, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked.

I've always loved Baen Books for doing what they do. Sorry to hear of Jim's passing.

wolf · 06-21-2006, 12:42 AM

We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it.

lookout123 · 06-21-2006, 03:56 AM

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Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

my neighbor's dead? guess i won't have to return the weedwacker.

wolf · 06-24-2006, 12:44 AM

I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad.

But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels.

(I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.)

lookout123 · 06-24-2006, 01:38 AM

when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories.

06-14-2006, 06:56 PM	#2
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Billy Preston, the "fifth beatle", died on the sixth... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

06-15-2006, 04:23 PM	#4
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Oops. My bad. I really should read better... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

06-15-2006, 11:52 PM	#5
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	No worries...I haven't been doing a very good job of that myself, lately. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-23-2006, 11:05 PM	#7
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Aaron Spelling has left the building. Like it or not, the man has impacted every TV owner's life. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-27-2006, 10:40 PM	#8
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Eddie is kaput. The little dog that caused people to think Jack Russel terriers were a good idea is chasing bumpers in heaven. http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=226276&GT1=7703 __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2006, 04:29 PM	#1
jonesieQ Paramour of Paradigm Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 42	Has anyone mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughn? I never imagined I would see him in concert, but he performed at an out-of-the-way concert series one summer, and I did get to see him. A stroke of fate, I thought. Especially when he died 6 weeks later. What a phenomenal loss to the world of blues.

06-16-2006, 02:15 AM	#6
disenchanted Resident President Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 81	Page 16, and yet nobody's mentioned Jim Henson.

07-04-2006, 09:41 AM	#9
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Jim Baen Jim Baen was a modern sci-fi publisher who tried to maintain the traditions of the past. Baen Books featured a lot of the hard sci-fi that Hugo Gernsback would have liked. In an era where a lot of 'intellectual property' companies were aggressively pursuing methods to squeeze profits from legacy content, limit sales to libraries and even went so far as to fine 12-year-old girls in an effort to sow fear among their consumers, Baen Books made it their policy to give away old content for free to build new readership. This approach showed the kind of innovation that is completely foreign to a large corporation. RIP Jim, and I hope the ******ers at Sony don't get their hands on your legacy. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama**

06-21-2006, 12:42 AM	#12
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	We're all still in such deep distress that we can't talk about it. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-24-2006, 12:44 AM	#14
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I am woman enough to admit that I liked The Mod Squad. But I was very disappointed when I caught one of their scripts being reused for an episode of Charlie's Angels. (I don't remember much of the plot, but it had something to do with this little kid, and him running away. In one of the shows he runs to these White Swan Boats on a lake, and in the other it was the White Horse or Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round at an extremely similar park. Other than that, word for word sameness. That is the day that I become disillusioned by television. Well, it was either that or the day that I found out that the guy playing Longstreet wasn't really blind.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-24-2006, 01:38 AM	#15
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	when the not-quite-ex was on 5 months of strict bedrest trying to hold in little lookout we were sooooo incredibly broke. i literally lived on peanut butter sandwiches. we always found money to pay the cable bill because she was stuck there 24/7. anyway, we got hooked on 90210 reruns. cheesy yes, but good memories. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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