Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Earl Scruggs

Bluegrass legend, banjo master -- via USA Today. I'm a lucky man -- I got to see him play.







Adrienne Rich

Poet -- via the Washington Post.

Wherever in this city, screens flicker
with pornography, with science-fiction vampires,
victimized hirelings bending to the lash,
we also have to walk . . . if simply as we walk
through the rainsoaked garbage, the tabloid cruelties
of our own neighborhoods.
We need to grasp our lives inseperable
from those rancid dreams, that blurt of metal, those disgraces,
and the red begonia perilously flashing
from a tenement sill six stories high,
or the long-legged young girls playing ball
in the junior highschool playground.
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Milt Lee

Advocate for the poor and mentally ill -- via azcentral.com.

Al Ross

Cartoonist -- via the New York Times.



David L. Waltz

Pioneering computer scientist -- via the New York Times.

Irving Ludwig

Violinist, conductor and music director -- via the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Adam Briesmeister

Actor, activist and substitute teacher -- via minnesota.cbslocal.com. He died saving his friends from a house fire.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Friday, March 23, 2012

Ruby Garrett

The last madam in Butte, Montana -- via the Washington Post.

Noboru Ishiguro

Animator -- via animenewsnetwork.com.

Yuri Razuvaev

Great chess player, author and coach; historian -- via chessbase.com.

Bob Henry


TV producer and director -- via the L.A. Times. He worked on the Nat King Cole and Flip Wilson shows. Plus, he started as a standup comic and radio host, which makes me love him even more!


Steve Schofer

Bassist -- via the Sacramento Bee. A long-time member of Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers.

Robert Fuest

Director, screenwriter and production designer -- via wearemoviegeeks.com. Made his mark first as an art director on "The Avengers" TV series; later directed many of the best episodes of same. Directed both of the "Phibes" films, each a campy cult horror classic.



Bijan Chowdhury

Artist -- via the Times of India.

Andy Brown

Guitarist -- via New Zimbabwe.

Jalal Zolfonun

Setar player -- via presstv.ir.

Hanne Borchsenius

Actress -- via danskefilm.dk.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Samuel Glazer

Co-founder of Mr. Coffee; popularizer of the home drip coffee maker -- via the New York Times. God bless you, sir! I lift my cup of joe in your honor.


Mel Parnell

Former Red Sox pitcher -- via the New York Times. Most wins for a southpaw pitcher for the BoSox.


Murray Lender

Bagelmeister -- via the New York Post.

Tamas Pinter

Actor and stuntman -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Eileen McDonough

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.