The RIP thread...

My grandmother, Irene Guiney. She passed away this monday (24th May), after a lengthy battle with throat cancer. She endured the suffering with dignity and never lost her optimism. Her husband Tony passed about 10 months ago, and it brings a tear to my eye to know that maybe, in some way, they will be together again.

She leaves behind two wonderful daughters and 4 grandchildren (3 girls and myself), who are all forever indebted to her for her kindness and generosity. She will be sorely missed. I am deeply saddened that she died the morning that I set off to visit her in the hospice.

Goodbye nana. xxx

RIP Gary Coleman.

What'chou talkin bout Willis?

Dennis Hopper. The original dude.

Perhaps if forcing your way onto the directors credits by gunpoint and beating women unconscious makes you a dude, then he wasn't an original.

My grandmother, Irene Guiney. She passed away this monday (24th May), after a lengthy battle with throat cancer. She endured the suffering with dignity and never lost her optimism. Her husband Tony passed about 10 months ago, and it brings a tear to my eye to know that maybe, in some way, they will be together again.

She leaves behind two wonderful daughters and 4 grandchildren (3 girls and myself), who are all forever indebted to her for her kindness and generosity. She will be sorely missed. I am deeply saddened that she died the morning that I set off to visit her in the hospice.

Goodbye nana. xxx

Sad news, sorry to hear that, Alex... x

Thanks joe. :)

On a side note, I am trying to re-house some of my grandma's plants. She was unbelievably good at keeping things alive, and managed to resurrect a couple of cacti that my mum and her sister bought when they were young.

30 years later, and these cacti look like this.

I am not having much luck in finding them a home - I have contacted the local Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, who were helpful but couldn't take the cacti themselves, and also on their recommendation a local orchid grower (who has had a lot of success at the Chelsea Flower Show, incidentally), who I have yet to hear back from.

These cacti are free to a good home, with the condition that they need to be collected from Jersey in the channel islands. Also, they're 5-6 feet tall and are very fragile.

Massive longshot I know, but I thought i might as well give it a shot...

Lost a hero in Dennis Hopper.

Oddly for me, I'm quite upset about it.

You should read Easy riders, Raging Bulls. Paints Hopper to be a right prick.

Edit: Turns out they made a film: YouTube- Easy Riders Raging Bulls: Opening

RIPost...

• Sorry, couldn't help myself...
  

Regardless of his off screen persona, I've always enjoyed his characters in films. That's what I'm mourning, really.

...noticed as it loaded. d'oh. Exactly the same image too. Weird.

Regardless of his off screen persona, I've always enjoyed his characters in films. That's what I'm mourning, really.

Yeah you're right, I'm being a little sanctimonious.

Dennis Hopper?! Great movie star. RIP.

I thought Dennis Hopper died last year.Obviously not.

Gary was the greatest. Despite size.

Louise Bourgeois - artist/sculptor.

Maman, One of my favourite sculptures :

The pigeon who just crashed into our building window and fell dead 5 floors below.

Pigeons often show glimpses of their extraordinary intelligence.

They know that they are nasty, and hence from time to time, commit a flying version of hari-kari.

Superb little geniuses.

RIP: World's ugliest dog

http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/features/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=153652017

I read an amazing interview with Dennis Hopper in a womans underwear changing room about 5 months ago, it was one of those fancy mags i wouldn't buy, full of pictures of expensives watches i couldn't afford and shit.. shoes that shit and v neck jumpers with bold stripes. cunty wear IMO

but it was the best article i had read in ages, Hopper was an accidental hero, he just did his thing attracted the coolest people because he was a straight player, pissed off the big money men and upset a fair few folk but he knows he did it and had the strength of self to sort his game out and kick the excess out of his life and change his work. very talented man. one that i would have around for dinner.. and would love to have gone on the piss with in his day.

speaking of which anyone see that BBC rock band program, the story of Led Zepplin Drummer Bonham going out on the lash with Olly Reed, Ringo Starr and the pink panther.. 3 day bender!
Why can't todays celebs man up and be like the old stars! it's upsetting really

RiP Hopper

I read an amazing interview with Dennis Hopper in a womans underwear changing room about 5 months ago, it was one of those fancy mags i wouldn't buy, full of pictures of expensives watches i couldn't afford and shit.. shoes that shit and v neck jumpers with bold stripes. cunty wear IMO

but it was the best article i had read in ages, Hopper was an accidental hero, he just did his thing attracted the coolest people because he was a straight player, pissed off the big money men and upset a fair few folk but he knows he did it and had the strength of self to sort his game out and kick the excess out of his life and change his work. very talented man. one that i would have around for dinner.. and would love to have gone on the piss with in his day.

speaking of which anyone see that BBC rock band program, the story of Led Zepplin Drummer Bonham
going out on the lash with Olly Reed, Ringo Starr and the pink panther.. 3 day bender!
Why can't todays celebs man up and be like the old stars! it's upsetting really
RiP Hopper

The best is the story about Richard Harris who went to a party in some Mayfair club, moved on to a bar in Soho and woke up in an apartment in Paris two days later!

They're not "Hell-Raisers" in any sense of the word these days. Olly Reed, Keith Moon etc make that prick Doherty look like a naughty schoolboy!

ha ha Class!
That is how you party. that Doherty isn't fit to lift a pint glass!

those people were also geniuses on the verge of nut cases. today anyone can get to the spot light, you don't need to be unique. hence a bunch of wet water drinking, macrobiotic environment saving twitter loving fucknut clones devoid of talent!

RIP real hell raisers!

He's not fit to be a potman in the dead hell-raisers pub!

Why can't todays celebs man up and be like the old stars! it's upsetting really

I think that's a slightly distorted perception--even then, you would have got a lot of very straight-laced stars. But I know what you mean. Some just come up through this system of powerful agents and become stars by default. Booooring. Some might try to break the mould, but they do it almost as fans of the older mould-breakers and as a result their efforts become a pale imitation.

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Fixed.