Archive for the 'obituary' Category
jim carroll, rip
RIP, Jim. A sad day for everyone.
Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine
Those are people who died, [...]
Sad Today
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Not to get all emotional over a politician, but Ted Kennedy was one of the good ones. I am nervous about what his gutless spineless corporate-fellating colleagues in the Senate will do to his health care reform bill now that he is gone.
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what a way to start the day.
Read More..>>Les Paul, RIP
who says only the good die young? Les made it to 94.
The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
Here he is at 91:
I never got a chance to see Les (almost did in the 1990s, but the cover was wicked steep).
Read More..>>Steven Wells
Steven Wells, one of the main reasons I read the Philly Weekly, has died, and Philadelphia is the poorer for it.
Here’s his first piece on dealing with the US health care system (Steve was british). Not for the faint of heart or stomach, but a must-read anyway.
The ER doctor says he wants to drill a [...]
If the Inky’s Just Going to Publish Crap…
…why bother saving it?
Seriously: why should Philadelphians tolerate a newspaper that devotes its op-ed pages to the worst of the worst, granting a megaphone to charlatans and frauds like John Yoo and Rick Santorum…
But since then, we’ve not only learned more about Yoo’s torture advocacy, but that Justice Department investigators have uncovered “sloppy legal analysis, [...]
On His Way to the Great Dog House in the Sky
Ray Skwire Scene in Philly
Soon after my parents moved to New Jersey in 1992, my sister and her boyfriend relocated to the area as well, with their two dogs: a pit bull named Desma (where kate comes up with these names I’ll never know: we once had a cat she named “Twinkle”, whose only purpose [...]
Read More..>>Marilyn Chambers, RIP
Marilyn Chambers is dead. Whil I knew she was the face of Ivory Snow in more innocent years, I had no idea she was a Rhode Island girl.
“Behind the Green Door” was notorious for a couple of reasons. First of all, when the film was released, boxes of Ivory Snow showed Chambers, in a straight [...]
More on Ida
As I said in the post below, Ida defied medical science for years. To her, this must have been just as much a curse as it was a blessing, because after Grandpa Ray died in the late 1970s (early 1980s?), Grandma never took another partner. Much of the rest of her life was spent [...]
Read More..>>“I Continue to Defy Medical Science!”
That was my grandmother Ida Skwire’s, nee Ancelitz, motto for the past 5 years, perhaps even the past ten years. But everyone has their time, and Grandma’s came last night around 11:00 PM. she’d been sick for a long time, and in fact it was almost 6 months ago that the doctors gave [...]
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