Abiding by the advice to not speak ill of the dead, I will merely note:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 | Fox News
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Abiding by the advice to not speak ill of the dead, I will merely note:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 | Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G33fniLwroQuote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
I somehow felt this song was right.
CNN : Rush Limbaugh, conservative media icon, dead at 70 following battle with cancer.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpol...adU/index.html
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https://www.graffes.com/forums/showt...=1#post1912916Quote:
Originally Posted by Merkus
Rush literally had blood on his hands by pushing an extreme, hateful agenda.
hopefully he is now learning a better outlook
this world does NOT need his kind :(
Missed it! I saw the Larry Flint at the bottom and didn't scroll up.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
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I know the dude is not really a celeb but the bull statue in New York is a major feature in American pop art.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56137600
A man who made it possible for lots of music celebs to exist
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/97559...-tape-has-died
Inventor of the cassette tape at 94
A technology with which I have a love-hate relationship. Cassettes helped me really get into music back in the day; I suspect that I would not appreciate music as much as I do now if my young self didn't have the portability that cassettes enabled, allowing me to listen to my music anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by FilanFyretracker
But in retrospect, the sound quality was awful. Like, really, really awful. And having to spool the damn things with a pencil or nail whenever the tape popped out was a pain in the ass.
Worked great on my C-64..
I started out with 8-track tapes, and while portable they sure did fill up the backseat of a Pinto. I remember having to bang the damn things against my leg sometimes to get them to play right. I then went to cassettes, and also remember having them come unspooled and get stuck in the player, such a pain, but, like you said, great for having mobile music.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
They can be very high quality sound with metal tapes and higher end versions of Dolby NR. Though you need a “vintage” deck to get all those features now.
But honestly the tape was always more about the freedom than the quality. In many ways the direct predecessor to MP3, MP3 was not about quality as much as it was transportability over slow networks. RIAA hated mixtapes too.
Tape was also fundamentally vital to the birth of rap and Hip Hop as mixing was huge for that.
For the Stargate fans out there, The dude who played Ba'al died in a kite boarding accident.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cli...-1-1234928931/
One of the best middleweight boxers of all-time:
Former Middleweight Champ Marvelous Marvin Hagler Dead at 66 (tmz.com)
Was a co-author of the greatest three rounds of pugilism you're ever likely to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GYGThR8dKs
Jessica Walter, arguably best known for her role as Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, 80. Lucille Bluth was the best character on the show, which had a slew of great characters.
https://www.newser.com/story/304135/...paign=20210325
And here is 10 and a half minutes of some of her awesomeness!
https://digg.com/video/jessica-walte...ed-development
She also played the ex-wife of George Segal on Just Shoot Me, and he just passed away as well. Laura San Giacomo better hide! I wonder what Archer will do without Jessica Walter to voice Mallory Archer?
One of America's great novelists has quit us:
Legendary Texas author Larry McMurtry dies at 84 (houstonchronicle.com)
Lonesome Dove has been recommended on this board before and I will do so again. If you haven't read it, you owe it to yourself to give it a try, even if you don't normally read Westerns. I also greatly enjoyed its sequel Streets of Laredo. There are also two prequels, Dead Man Walking and Comanche Moon, but I would say those are merely good rather than great.
Among his other works, I also loved The Last Picture Show (teens in a dying small-town in Texas in the 1950s) and Anything for Billy (his take on Billy the Kid), but those might be more acquired tastes. Buffalo Girls (about Calamity Jane) is just OK. Don't think I've read anything else by him.
Mr. Watergate is gone:
G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90 (msn.com)
Prince Phillip
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/uk/pr...ntl/index.html