The RIP thread...

Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer, That’s how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about food; but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown. We’ll miss him.

Barack Obama tweet yesterday :( RIP legend

Anyone who promotes tripe in cooking is a f*cking hero in my book, that and journey references to heart of darkness, apocalypse now, overcoming drug addictions..

His top 10 favourite films from The Criterion Collection, say a lot about him.

Damn shame, love his shows.

RIP Danny Kirwan, sad story
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/11/danny-kirwan-former-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-dies-aged-68

Andreas Perez, young Moto3 rider who crashed on Sunday in the Catalunyan GP.

Only 14, sad times.

+REP etc

Nick Knox - drummer with The Cramps.

Coolest drummer ever along with Brett Rixon of The Scientists and Rock Action of The Stooges... Big teenage hero... RIP

Not forgetting his time in the Electric Eels, seminal noisemongers...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blues-brothers-guitarist-matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88-w521611

Yvette Horner, played the accordion in/on the Tour de France caravan in the 50's (when, so the article says, the caravan itself was 30 miles long and about 15000000 people saw it) and had a generally amazing life and times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/obituaries/yvette-horner-frances-star-accordionist-is-dead-at-95.html

G Shock creator Kazuo Kashio
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180619/p2g/00m/0bu/093000c

Big van Vader

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Koko, famed gorilla who learned sign language but never became a mother, dies aged 46

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/koko-gorilla-sign-language-dead-aged-46?CMP=ShareAndroidApp%2BTypeApp

https://nypost.com/2016/07/28/inside-the-world-of-the-gorilla-who-can-talk/

Yet racist Phil is still alive...

we live in hope.

This sucks. I still remember when I found out about Dimebag. RIP Vinnie.

No wAy!

One of the sad things about Koko's death is that the Gorilla Foundation's "research" is deeply suspect and that they may have treated the few gorillas in their care inappropriately and neglectfully (plenty of complaints from former foundation workers to suggest maltreatment). Certainly, the lack of proper data released by the foundation and their unwillingness to cooperate with other researchers means that Koko's unusual life did not teach us how much Gorillas really use language, how much their use of language is unique to them and how much they share in common with us.

Most of the news reporting on Koko's death mentions none of this, indulging in the same sentimental anthropomorphism that Paterson used to exaggerate the value of her work.

I see the Guardian repeats the story that Koko mourned Robin Williams. That's a pure anecdote for which the Gorilla Foundation provided no documentary evidence. There's no account of them doing anything to verify that she understood what they'd told her. From what video evidence there is of Koko conversing (with Penny Paterson's highly dubious translations), she rarely used language to do anything other than express immediate needs and never referred to any thing/person/state outside her immediate environment.

But hey, a cute story about the life of a talking gorilla is much cuter than one about dishonest researchers who neglected and abused the few gorillas in their care and fraudulently raised millions of dollars based on entirely fictitious accounts of their contribution to the conservation of gorillas in the wild.

Interesting info thanks!

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/06/r-i-p-steve-soto-founding-member-and-bassist-of-the-adolescents-has-died/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/harlan_ellison_dies/

RIP Harlan

RIP Peter Firmin
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/01/bagpuss-clangers-basil-brush-creator-peter-firmin-dies-aged-89