Octopus Overlords

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:33 pm Liked a lot of his work. He seemed to be perpetually old to me. He was old looking when I was a teenager. ALso because of that Ive thought him dead many times over the years and confused him with The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.

RIP. Life isn't fair. You're alive. You're you. Then one day gone. Nobody even asks if you want to go.

The Trees’ concerts sometimes featured fighting between the various band members onstage, which in a way added to the excitement of their shows. They clashed offstage as well, particularly as Lanegan descended into drug addiction, and at one point pawned his bandmates’ instruments, temporarily derailing the group’s success. Though Lanegan’s 2020 memoir threw barbs at his bandmates, he privately apologized to the Conners after its release and before his death.

And in 1996, Lanegan told me that Van was the band’s key man. “Van is the Screaming Trees,” Lanegan said. “He is the heart and soul of the band.”

I interviewed Van that year as well, and he said he still hadn’t seen the film “Singles,” where he had a cameo. When I asked if he’d had a career highlight so far, he cited watching President Bill Clinton give an inauguration speech on television, with the Screaming Trees’ “Nearly Lost You” playing in the background.

“It was just bizarre,” Van said. “Growing up in Ellensburg, in a video store, I never would have imagined anything like that in my life.”

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:33 pm The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.

Unagi wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:56 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:33 pm The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia.

So as not to be confused with some other Jerry Garcia ??

Jeff V wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:31 pm Lin Brehmer, 68. Cancer.

Anyone in the Chicago music scene, or a fan of WXRT, will feel this one. When I started driving Uber, I exclusively listened to WXRT, a radio station that has a diverse mx of new and old music. Brehmer has been with the station over 20 years (the station itself celebrated it's 50th anniversary last year), fancied himself as "your best friend in the world" and since he started fighting cancer, would frequently add, "it's good to be alive" and "take nothing for granted" to his daily routine.

I'm gonna miss the hell out of him. His replacement, Anna Lisa from Boston, is excellent though.

Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles like the chipper McDonald’s declaration “You, You’re the One” and Coca-Cola’s boast that “Coke Is It,” died on Dec. 31 in Manhattan. She was 77.

Her companion and only immediate survivor, James McCullar, said the cause was complications of hepatic cirrhosis.

Ms. Dawes never became well known herself, but she helped maintain or boost the popularity of the products she promoted. And she insinuated infectious tunes into the nation’s repertoire that Americans whistled and hummed as much as the songs played on Top 40 radio.

She hooked listeners with melodically and rhythmically catchy jingles that accompanied slogans for everything from Tide detergent to Kit Kat candy bars, to Johnson’s baby powder and to Hartz’s tick and flea-fighting pet collars.

“When I’ve got a really great lyric,” she told Charles Osgood of CBS in a 1977 television interview, “I put a very simple melody to it.”

Sudy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:13 am io9 is reporting, via @StarTrek on Twitter:

Annie Wersching (Runaways, The Vampire Diaries) has been cast as the Borg Queen in the second season of Picard, taking over the role from Alice Krige (First Contact, Voyager season seven) and Susanna Thompson (Voyager seasons five and six).

Actress Annie Wersching, best known for her roles in the television shows 24, Bosch and Timeless, has died of cancer. Wersching was 45, her publicist confirmed.

She continued to shoot even after her 2020 diagnosis, with prominent roles in Star Trek: Picard as the Borg queen in Season 2, and The Rookie. She also was in the video game version of HBO’s new drama, The Last of Us.

Lisa Loring, who played the young Wednesday Addams on “The Addams Family” from 1964 to 1966 and also appeared in “As the World Turns,” died Saturday of a stroke, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg confirmed. She was 64.

“She went peacefully with both her daughters holding her hands,” Foumberg said.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:04 pm

Sudy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:13 am io9 is reporting, via @StarTrek on Twitter:

Annie Wersching (Runaways, The Vampire Diaries) has been cast as the Borg Queen in the second season of Picard, taking over the role from Alice Krige (First Contact, Voyager season seven) and Susanna Thompson (Voyager seasons five and six).

Deadline

Actress Annie Wersching, best known for her roles in the television shows 24, Bosch and Timeless, has died of cancer. Wersching was 45, her publicist confirmed.

She continued to shoot even after her 2020 diagnosis, with prominent roles in Star Trek: Picard as the Borg queen in Season 2, and The Rookie. She also was in the video game version of HBO’s new drama, The Last of Us.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:11 pm Aww I loved the Original AF. Stroke at 64....just a year older than my wife and her stroke. When I lost my wife I thought it was nuts to have a stroke at 63 and to die of it. Then started reading and see just how common it is. RIP to Lisa.

Think Ill start a baby aspirin a day at age 60....used to take then then quit.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:00 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:11 pm Aww I loved the Original AF. Stroke at 64....just a year older than my wife and her stroke. When I lost my wife I thought it was nuts to have a stroke at 63 and to die of it. Then started reading and see just how common it is. RIP to Lisa.

Think Ill start a baby aspirin a day at age 60....used to take then then quit.

Check with a doctor first. Some say it's more harmful than helpful unless you really need to do it. (And I say this as someone who takes baby aspirin per doctor's recommendation.)

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:04 pm I take an adult aspirin every day until they tell me otherwise.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:16 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:04 pm I take an adult aspirin every day until they tell me otherwise.

Depending on who they is, they've been telling you otherwise for a while.

If they is the Mayo Clinic, for example: Daily aspirin therapy: Understand the benefits and risks
tl;dr: Ask your doctor.

Secondary prevention. This means you've already had a heart attack or stroke, or you have known heart or blood vessel (vascular) disease. You're taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks or strokes. The benefit of daily aspirin therapy in this situation is well established.

If you've had a heart attack or a stent placed in one or more of your heart arteries, it's important to keep taking daily aspirin and any blood-thinning medications exactly as directed by your health care provider. Stopping daily aspirin therapy can have a rebound effect that may trigger a blood clot and lead to a heart attack.

Kraken wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:33 pm I dimly remember Laverne & Shirley -- I didn't watch it regularly, but I saw it a few times -- but I do remember the characters. What really blindsided me is that Michael McKean was Lenny.