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  2. 2.

    OldDave

    True, but Joe died over a year ago. The intertubes has somehow resurrected and killed him again. ETA: he passed on December 22, 2014.

  3. 3.

    Matt McIrvin

    He died two years ago. He seems to be becoming one of those guys who dies again every year.

    …oops, one year and change, I guess.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    Do you think people are getting Joe Cocker and Paul Kantner mixed up? (ETA: same era, only …)

    Definite deja vu moment there.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    I think you should change the blogpost title to RIP, again, so as not to alarm those still commenting wildly downstream.

  11. 11.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I thought I’d time traveled with Doug! when I saw the title. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

  13. 13.

    RSA

    Whoops, he died a while ago. One of my Facebook friends had posted that he just died.

    My FB friends have been doing it too. I just saw a post go by about Jean Stapleton’s death.

    Generalissimo Francisco Franco is also still dead, by the way.

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Update. Whoops, he died a while ago.

    but he still could belt it out, and he should still whatever in peace.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Yesterday or so, the Facebooks were burning up with the news that Jean Stapleton had died. (She died in May 2013.)

    And a few weeks ago, I got sucked, or suckered, in — for the second time, I’m afraid — by the news that Bob Denver had passed. (He did, in 2005.)

    I’m trying to train myself to double- and triple-check dates before I pass these along. Wonder how they get started so frequently.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    Semi OT recent death, I picked up the Time commemorative on David Bowie. I wasn’t gonna, but then I was near and it was Bowie so I did. Some really nice early pics of him as a teen. He looks so amazing. Still can’t believe he’s gone.

  20. 20.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Whew. For a moment there I thought I had come unstuck in time. I remember well when he died.

    One of the greatest rock concerts, no darn it, the greatest I ever saw was the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. This was only partly because his opening act was Van Morrison, who was in fact who I had come to see. I’m dating myself no matter what here, but I was very young. I couldn’t even drive there, I had to hitchhike.

    Also, an inspiration for one of the best music videos ever:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxK4iGx_bno

  23. 23.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    OT, but potentially of interest as current news:
    No bond for Ammo Bundy, his brother Ryan, Jason Patrick, Ryan Payne, and Dylan Anderson. Ammo’s counsel plans to appeal.
    Joseph O’Shaughnessy was permitted to be released under home detention and GPS monitoring, and Shawna Cox to be released with conditions once the occupation of the refuge is over. The magistrate was undecided about bond for Santilli. The government will appeal the release of O’Shaughanessy.

    The appeal will be to the US District Judge; the bonds were set – and denied – by a US magistrate judge. There is an automatic right of appeal to the US District Judge, so none of this is procedurally unusual.

  26. 26.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Okay with two mentions of Jean Stapleton in this thread, now I’m involuntarily imagining Jean Stapleton as Edith singing all of Joe Cocker’s greatest hits.

    That could actually be sort of brilliant. Either that or Joe Cocker doing “Those were the days” with Archie. Sitting at the piano…

  29. 29.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Mr. Conster told me in alarm that Richie Havens had died today too, but yeah. No. Already dead. Someone needs to invent the new Abe Vigoda status check. Robert DeNiro? Keith Richards?

  35. 35.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Maybe it’s David Bowie pulling the cosmic strings of the web that is social media, wanting us to pay attention to the musical greats? If I were dead David Bowie, that’s what I’d do. He’s a Starman again, after he was the man who fell to earth as a spider from Mars. That Lazarus video is next level.

    ETA: I’m not high at all/

  41. 41.

    Felonius Monk

    This just in from 1799: George Washington,the first President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, has passed on. “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Unfortunately, he never learned to rock and roll.

  47. 47.

    chopper

    This juſt in from a long-aſs time ago:

    The great darkneſs that hath covered our univerſe hath been torn aſunder. The lord God declared that there be light, and the darkneſs paſsed on.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    this worked so well last time…

    “You know, people often ask Trey Gowdy and myself, what did our investigations do?” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Boston Herald Radio on Friday morning. Gowdy currently chairs the House Select Committee on Benghazi, while Issa conducted his own investigation in 2012 when he served as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
    “Well what they did is that they opened up an opportunity for the American people to sort of smell what’s in the garbage can,” Issa said. “And I think that’s the reason that a devout socialist who wants to nationalize almost everything in America is close to and probably will beat Hillary here in New Hampshire. It’s not because they like Republicans. It’s because they don’t trust Hillary.”

    Nice of the third-tier hack who blundered his way to a fortune and seat in Congress to step on the email story for her

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Omnes Omnibus: A frequent proximity to stolen cars and one very profitable and well-timed, well insured fire (in fairness, it’s been years since I read this article)

    @efgoldman: Well, he was, but the charges were dropped

    The brothers were indicted for grand theft. Darrell argued that he had no knowledge of William’s activities; William claimed that his brother had authorized him to sell the car, and he produced a document dated a few weeks before the robbery that gave him power of attorney over his brother’s affairs. On February 15th, with the investigation ongoing, Darrell returned to the San Jose dealership and repurchased his car, for seventeen thousand dollars. In August, 1980, the prosecution dropped the case. Darrell insisted that he was a victim, not a criminal. William had produced evidence that he had the legal authority to sell the car, and the injured party was reimbursed.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: To be honest, I really loved my state job. I was also quite good at it. As for the rest, it just a bad couple of weeks. Happens everywhere. If you weren’t retired, I would advise you not to let people know of your competence. It comes back to haunt you. I was taking care of things that needed to be done this week that my equivalently positioned colleagues weren’t able to handle. Part of my annoyance. And my boss is totally over-worked and over-stressed and her nature is to react by lashing out over little things. I hate private sector jobs.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: That job was perfect for me. It hit exactly in my wheelhouse. It went away. The current job has some challenges – including those mentioned above. When it comes bonus time, I will mention weeks like this….

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @chrome agnomen: BJ is slipping. T’s not unusual to have a “breitbart is still dead” comment on a regular thread! But to have to wait until #62 in this thread, shocking! :-)

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