Notable death

Originally posted by @torunn
They are having a good time. 🙂

They hate each other. Newton doesn't understand a sh.it of Hawking's rabble. He probably thinks this is a Hell's agent sent for him.
In the mean time, a buzzing toaster came to London city court to claim inheritance.

Peter Grünberg Nobel Laureate for Physics in 2007 for the discovery of the giant magneto reistance

Moved my post to On This Day thread.

Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus.

Barbara Bush.

Harry Anderson, from TV's Night Court.

He was only 65, kind of a shocker.

Verne Troyer
"Mini-Me" from the Austin Powers movies and a goblin (I think) from HP.

Newton was arrogant dickhead, I guess he earned it.

Gianfrancor Parolini aged 93...

Jabo Starks +1st of May 2018

A very influential drummer.

Tom Wolfe, white-suited, white-fedora'd writer of vanities.

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
Tom Wolfe, white-suited, white-fedora'd writer of vanities.

I read the "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in High School.
"The Right Stuff" while in the Air Force...
and "Bonfire of the Vanities" afterward as a yuppie wannabe.
To say the that Tom's writing was influential in my life would be modest prose indeed.

Godspeed Tom Wolfe!
🙁

Philip Roth, literary self-abuser.

Philip Roth dies yesterday aged 85.

I enjoyed several of his books. The humain stain especially.

Just saw that Shallow Blue was a moment faster 😉

Originally posted by @ponderable
Philip Roth dies yesterday aged 85.

I enjoyed several of his books. The humain stain especially.

Just saw that Shallow Blue was a moment faster 😉

Love Roth's work.