Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:33 pm
Octopus Overlords
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
https://octopusoverlords.com/forum/
R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Page 3 of 68
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:57 pm
I know. He was always very careful to keep characters out of his art.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:44 pm
Funny, I checked out my wife's LoTR boxed set, which is in the gold box. It turns out that it contains only Return of the King from the Barbara Remington set, and it contains The Hobbit and The Two Towers from the second (white) set. Beats me what happened to her copy of Fellowship.hitbyambulance wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 3:23 pmthis is the set my mom has - in the gold foil box! also the matching edition of the Hobbit, separately. my brother completely bent up the spines reading them in grade school. :/ i intended to read these, but could never clear the first fifty pages of Fellowship of the Ring... tried several times, until
this is the set i ended up finally getting around to reading, back in 2008/2009, borrowed from my roommate at the time. they were in pretty rough shape (one was missing the backcover and the last few pages)
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:28 am
25 years ago I bought a single book version or the set. Cost me like $80. Pretty fancy.
I don't think I've read it more than 8-10 times thanks to the movies coming out.
Still, it's a book I treasure.
I don't think I've read it more than 8-10 times thanks to the movies coming out.
Still, it's a book I treasure.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:07 am
As I recall I have it in one big hard back. The trilogy in one book. I read it once around 2000. Once was enough. Almost gave me a headache. Something about the way its written. Im more a RA Salvatore trilogy guy.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:35 am
I don't mean to get off track on this fantasy book covers thread, but Charles Portis has died. He wrote five books, most famously True Grit. I never read that, but I did read The Dog of the South last year and found it odd but enjoyable.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 11:26 am
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures," died Monday, the administrator of NASA said. She was 101.
Johnson "was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten," NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:19 pm
Johnson was a real pathfinder and I'm glad she got the recognition she deserved, if belatedly.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:18 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:14 am
Lego mini figure cretor Jens Nygaard Knudsen dies of ALS.
He also developed the space and castle sets, of which I had a few. Loved them.
Lord, I still love Legos and the mini figures. My son (8) and I play with them quite a bit.
RIP. St Peter will be getting a new set of Gates, I would imagine.
He also developed the space and castle sets, of which I had a few. Loved them.
Lord, I still love Legos and the mini figures. My son (8) and I play with them quite a bit.
RIP. St Peter will be getting a new set of Gates, I would imagine.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:23 am
My son was making stop-motion videos with Lego minifigs just this weekend. R.I.P.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:43 am
It's weird, the ones that hit me. It also feels odd to post it in a general obituary thread.
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... -star-dead
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/stor ... -star-dead
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:34 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:38 pm
61 is way too young. Always liked this song, though I wasn't really into them at the time (1994) but I do remember just how different they were than everything else happening at the time, at least in popular music. RIPLordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:43 am It's weird, the ones that hit me. It also feels odd to post it in a general obituary thread.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:55 pm
You apparently can't cheat death.
Spoiler:
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:20 pm
I went through a Clive Cussler phase in my teens. Dirk Pitts? I think that was the character's name. Always dealing with maritime mysteries. They were fun reads.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:29 pm
Actually thought he died years ago. I think titanic was the first one of his i read a long time ago.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 5:22 pm
Awww, fuck. Hopefully his son carries on with the various series...they are brain candy to be sure but I enjoy them. I've listened to all of them that the library has on audiobook, I might have to start reading the ones they don't if ever I have a chance for discretionary reading on Kindle.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:52 pm
Cussler was my father's favorite later in his life. I've read three or four. They're not bad. They're not heavy, deep novels, but they're fun adventure novels, usually with a maritime angle. Good for the same itch that playing Uncharted scratches.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:12 am
He was right up there with Stephen King as far as his books being must reads to me. I never could figure out why his material wasn't used in movies more, they are clearly made for it. It's basically an American James Bond series, a franchise waiting to happen.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:18 am
It didn't help that Sahara bombed badly (it made back like half its budget, total.)gameoverman wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:12 amHe was right up there with Stephen King as far as his books being must reads to me. I never could figure out why his material wasn't used in movies more, they are clearly made for it. It's basically an American James Bond series, a franchise waiting to happen.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:43 am
The Matt Mcanawhatever movie? I liked that movie. Watched it a few times.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:24 am
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:41 am
My turn to say, I thought he died years ago.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:02 am
Remember kids....its not the Dyson Vacuum but the Dyson Sphere.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:10 am
And Project Orion, which would've used nuclear bombs and a ginormous pressure plate to propel a spacecraft to Saturn by 1974. Curse that test ban treaty!
Many years ago I read a book by his son called "The Starship and the Canoe." The young man rejected everything his father stood for and paddled around nature. Being more of a starship guy than a canoe guy, I thought he was a schmuck.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:11 am
Now he builds kayaks less than a mile away from me.Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:10 amAnd Project Orion, which would've used nuclear bombs and a ginormous pressure plate to propel a spacecraft to Saturn by 1974. Curse that test ban treaty!
Many years ago I read a book by his son called "The Starship and the Canoe." The young man rejected everything his father stood for and paddled around nature. Being more of a starship guy than a canoe guy, I thought he was a schmuck.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:48 pm
Jack Welch (former CEO of GE) died today at the age of 84.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:58 pm
He never welched on a bet.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:31 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:05 pm
I just started re watching Arrested Development like I do every few years, and just finished watching the episodes in which Lipton plays the warden of George Sr.'s prison. RIP, James.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:08 pm
He was 92? Jesus I hate this whole aging thing.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:33 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:45 pm
See aging strikes again! I had no idea he was that old. Not that I was really sitting around thinking about it. 
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:49 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:58 pm
Sad to hear that Genesis P-orrige passed this morning from leukemia. Founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, s/he was the, well, genesis of industrial music. They were a creative, challenging, and divisive force.
The world is a lot less interesting today. RIP Gen.
The world is a lot less interesting today. RIP Gen.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:21 pm
Im afraid to come in here now afraid Ill see Tom Hanks.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:18 pm
That is a bummer. I didn't even know they were sick.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:58 pm Sad to hear that Genesis P-orrige passed this morning from leukemia. Founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, h/she was the, well, genesis of industrial music. They were a creative, challenging, and divisive force.
The world is a lot less interesting today. RIP Gen.
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:28 pm
Re: R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:36 pm