The RIP thread...

Your simple words just don't move me: you're minor, we're major
You're all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player
Don't make me have to call your name out
Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots'll make you levitate

RIP Prodigy

Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear :(

Michael Bond :(

Barry Norman :(

Will he be pickled?

RIP Barry
National Treasure (crap movie)

Heathcote Williams RIP

“If an alien was to hover a few hundred yards above the planet
It could be forgiven for thinking
That cars were the dominant life-form,
And that human beings were a kind of ambulatory fuel cell:
Injected when the car wished to move off,
And ejected when they were spent.”
The author considers automobiles to be absolute evil murdering more people than gory wars.
“Interconnecting roads, laid out like lattice-work,
Might sometimes strike a moderately subtle viewer
As a predatory web.”
Cars seem to be reigning the world turning into dangerous predators devouring human will and lives.
Autogeddon is rather a poetical verdict than a poem.

Ah, shame. Good man.

He was due to come to the New River Press launch a little while ago but had to cancel because he wasn't well.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/02/heathcote-williams-radical-poet-playwright-actor-dies-aged-75

Farewell Grotbags.

https://www.facebook.com/gina.mear/posts/10155468472568735

That is niche

Fuck off is it. Grotbags is 100% mainstream for anyone aged 33-42.

Show some respect.

This, sad times. Agreed, Grotbags, Ulysses 31 and Dogtanian and the three Muskerhounds all essential for that demographic.

Plus -80 days around the world. 🙏🏼 RIP Grotbags

Don't know about any of that particular island culture, though I'm also older than the demographic.

I'm 36, British and have no idea what grotbags are

My mum used to dress up as grotbags every halloween

Not just Halloween, if you played your cards right.

#sorry
#notsorry

Testify.

secret childhood crush

rip sweet princess

Safe in the arms of Rod Hull now

In fairness she was looking a bit green for quite some time

"a bit off colour"?

Pierre Henry

https://youtu.be/iwNiegIhHiY

Bryan Avery, designer of the IMAX Waterloo
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/06/bryan-avery-obituary