Showing posts with label deaths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deaths. Show all posts
Saturday, November 07, 2020

On (or off) the Avenues, there's got to be a morning after.

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What I do want to nudge you to consider is this: everything you are passionate about at the national level has a local analog that needs you...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Update: NAC is heading for the exits, but we're not there quite yet.

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I'm still moving toward the ultimate goal of putting NA Confidential to rest.  ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to the last will and testament ...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to the last will and testament of NA Confidential.

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It cannot be denied that I’m a slow learner, a late bloomer and a serial procrastinator.  This much is perfectly clear. Actually, I’ve never...
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Friday, September 25, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Magic and loss.

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For one who is accustomed to recording his thoughts on paper, because he has always understood in his particular case that writing is the ve...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Real Me.

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  For a long time, I haven't wanted to think too deeply about the part my childhood played in my development. Nothing overtly horrible h...
Friday, September 11, 2020

R.I.P. Ray Weatherholt.

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Ray Weatherholt died the other day at the age of 80, presumably from COVID complications. I never became altogether close to Ray, but alw...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Sunday Fact Fest, Episode 02: COVID death surge? It's real, and "the virus has done exactly what public-health experts expected."

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Welcome to the ICU, Libertarians. Narcissists don't care about others. When you don't care about others, it's easier to rati...
Friday, June 26, 2020

R.I.P. Terry Cummins.

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Terry Cummins died on June 8, 2020. He was an amazing man and a role model second to none; Terry literally retired and THEN began climbing...
Friday, June 05, 2020

R.I.P. Larry Kramer: "I don’t want to lose my anger. There’s work to do."

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If you don't know anything about Larry Kramer, you should. Gay or straight, black or white, young or old -- whatever. He saw what was...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: The late, great Lee Kelly -- by Matt Nash.

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Lewie Stevens, Lee Kelly, John Dougherty and Kent Sterling (1978-1980). A few years later, minus Stevens. On Tuesday the NA Conf...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Two deaths and a ghost, or three amazing stories -- at least to me.

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Prague, 1997. Two of these snippets pertain to recent deaths. The third describes an apparition. To be honest, I had no idea who Gene...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

R.I.P. Orson Bean, killed by two drivers using their cars as weapons.

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First, all due respect to the late Orson Bean. He was a ubiquitous figure back in the day, a half-century ago, when I actually watched te...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

R.I.P. John Bierly.

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Two decades ago John Bierly was a Public House regular, hanging out with late afternoon coffee drinking students. The exact circumstances...
Friday, January 10, 2020

R.I.P. Neil Peart.

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Allow me to begin my lamentation about the passing of a legend with a travel story from Bayeux, France, on July 16 in 1985. I was two mon...
Monday, October 07, 2019

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Bloody-mindedness and its master practitioner, the late Ginger Baker.

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Ginger Baker made it to 80 hard-lived years of age, so it can't be said that he died too young; seven years ago in his review of the...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

"David Koch was a rich man who used his fortune to influence our politics with an eye toward further enriching himself."

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One malign influencer has gone, and of course that's for the greater good, but Koch's passing does nothing to alter the rot becau...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The late John Paul Stevens was there when Babe Ruth did, or did not, call his shot in the 1932 World Series.

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John Paul Stevens has died, and coverage of his passing is rightly focused on his Supreme Court tenure. But the drop-dead incredible thin...
Friday, July 12, 2019

R.I.P. Jim Bouton: "After Ball Four, sports hagiography was never the same."

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Jim Bouton has died at 80. Long live the memory of Ball Four's author. On Twitter and later at The Nation , sportswriter Dave Ziri...
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