RIP Famous People :(

[Kong Wen]

Tom Petty is now officially dead. I can't say he was always one of my favourite artists, but I did enjoy his work and his humour, and he ended up being a big influence on me musically.

[VictorViper]

Everyone in Canada already knows, and everyone else will say "who?", but Gord Downie finally succumbed to his cancer. Wasn't generally a fan of The Hip past their early albums, but his influence was legendary, and his poetry touched an awful lot of people.

[Kong Wen]

Everyone in Canada already knows, and everyone else will say "who?", but Gord Downie finally succumbed to his cancer. Wasn't generally a fan of The Hip past their early albums, but his influence was legendary, and his poetry touched an awful lot of people.

There are relatively few things that unite people across Canada in their Canadianness. Hockey. The Jays. Timmies. Canada is a very regionalized nation, by necessity due to its small population spread over immense geographical area. Love or hate the Hip, Gord is one of those few things. Watching that last concert on CBC made me feel in touch with the rest of the nation in a way I hadn't since maybe the Vancouver Olympics.

I'm one of the folks who didn't care for the Hip at all. A few years back, I accidentally won a contest to go see them, backstage passes, chill with the band, etc. (I was entered without my knowledge by signing up for a new phone package.) So we went, Gord was a bit stand-offish, but the rest of the band was cool. But I really respected Gord's decision to tour, to keep making music, and art, and stay on the political edge, and to keep living his passion until the very end.

[SkyPikachu]

Youtuber Total Biscuit just lost his fight to cancer today at age 33

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I believe he'd been battling this cancer for a while and late april he made a health update explaining that this was pretty much it so it wasn't a shock death. Nonetheless still very sad nobody deserves to get cancer.

[Kong Wen]

Danny Kirwan died yesterday. He was one of the three guitarists from the good lineup of Fleetwood Mac. He wasn't one of the founders, but Peter Green added him in advance of Then Play On, and their interplay was glorious. He stayed on to lead the group for one album after Green left, and then he left too and didn't do much after that. This would have been in 1973 or so.

[SkyPikachu]

Stan Lee died. He lived a long life so not as tragic as some of these other much younger deaths but still the end of a chapter for him. Not sure if he had much imput on stuff recently with new content so no idea if we'll see things change with his characters. May his memory be a blessing

[Kong Wen]

Stan Lee keep indirectly enriching my life even after his passing. Yesterday I learned that the proper and respectful way to memorialize the death of a Jewish person is not to say "RIP" (because Jews don't believe in an afterlife) but "may his memory be a blessing." For Stan Lee, I couldn't think of a more appropriate phrase.

[SkyPikachu]

Stan Lee keep indirectly enriching my life even after his passing. Yesterday I learned that the proper and respectful way to memorialize the death of a Jewish person is not to say "RIP" (because Jews don't believe in an afterlife) but "may his memory be a blessing." For Stan Lee, I couldn't think of a more appropriate phrase.

I like that. Rip has lost so much meaning these days due to it being used as a way to say you died in a game and as a strong believer that the after life doesn't exist"
"may his memory be a blessing" seems perfect.

[Kong Wen]

Just seeing on Twitter now that Peter Tork has died.

[Kong Wen]

RIP Tardar Sauce, a.k.a. Grumpy Cat, who had just turned 7 last month. Quite young for a cat.