RIP

[shoeshine boy]

at least I didn’t **** on it like shoeshine boy lol

hey, it's not like I asked if he died of lung cancer.

[faftorial]

E. Bryant Crutchfield, inventor of the Trapper Keeper:

[Shyster]

I owned many Trapper Keepers over my primary school and even college years. I remember they offered fancier leather ones under, I think, the "Mead Cambridge" brand. Those are the ones I used in high school and college because the leather ones were significantly more durable than the plastic ones. Still superb organizational tools.

[RonnieFranchise]

RIP Joey DeFrancesco, jazz organist and PA native.. He died yesterday at, uh, my age. Heir to fellow PA native Jimmy Smith’s legacy on the Hammond. Signed his first record deal at 16.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/11195606 ... dies-at-51

[RonnieFranchise]

Also, last Monday, Creed Taylor passed at 93. Taylor founded/owned CTI Records, releasing albums in the 60s-80s. The artists he produced were a whos-who of jazz in the era, including Wes Montgomery, Bob James, Grover Washington Jr, Pittsburgh’s George Benson, Astrud and Joao Gilberto, Nina Simone, and on and on. Primarily his recordings were engineered by the legendary Rudy van Gelder.

[Gaucho]

[shafnutz05]

I've often wondered how Gorbachev has viewed the last 15 years in Russia. Not favorably, I assume.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I had no idea he was alive, honestly

[MR25]

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

the Queen


first!

[Gaucho]

[shafnutz05]

He was a solid anchor in the 90s. RIP.

[shoeshine boy]

RIP QEII

[mac5155]

Did she decline rapidly? I just heard this morning she was sick and bam. Or am I just behind on the updates

[meow]

I think when you are 96, it always goes downhill quick

[shoeshine boy]

my dad was 93 and he went quickly. I mean, He'd been in a nursing home because he couldn't live on his own but his overall health was good and one morning I got a call at 2:00AM that when the nurse went to check on him he'd died in his sleep.

[tifosi77]

My 98-year old great granma died during dinner service at her rehab hospital. Which does not really speak too well to the level of patient supervision at said facility, but that's a different topic.

[Kane]

[DigitalGypsy66]

Elizabeth greeted the new PM on Tuesday, right? There were pictures of that event, and she didn't look great, but obviously up to doing matters of state.

I read that while she recovered from COVID in February, she still hadn't been 100%.

[NTP66]

Now, more than ever, we have to protect Sir David Attenborough at all costs.

[shafnutz05]

Actually pretty cool.



I don't care about the royal family but I really liked QEII. Feels like the end of an era in more ways than one.

[dodint]

It would be pretty great if the British people just said "yeah, that is a wrap" and disbanded all of this. Turn the palace into a museum, or a homeless shelter.

[Dickie Dunn]

I think pretty much everyone but Piers Morgan and the Royals would be onboard with that idea.

[Gaucho]

I doubt that very much.

[Morkle]

lol isn't the royal family to them like the Kardashians to us? Provide zero support, make a ton of money, and people love their drama?