ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): obituaries

Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts

Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

I'm sad to see that Edmund White has died.

We had a two-decade correspondence that ended when I became one of his "thinly veiled" examples of "what's wrong with queer men today" and I withdrew.

He was a great writer and NOCTURNES FOR THE KING OF NAPLES (1978) affected my life significantly.

Obituary in The Guardian

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Mike Peters (1959-2025)

Monday, March 3, 2025

Yeah. That one.

Friday, January 31, 2025

Marianne Faithfull
(1946-2025)

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter
(1924-2024)

Top: Matt Davies
Bottom: Mike Luckovich

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Two of the best of the best in one week?

Ugh.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Peter Schickele

1935-2024

Friday, March 17, 2023

Lance Reddick

1962-2023

Well, fuck.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Georgina Beyer

1957-2023

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Raquel Welch

1940-2023

Friday, February 10, 2023

Carlos Saura

1932-2023

Well, fuck.

So long. You made the world a better place.

Monday, December 12, 2022

Angelo Badalamenti

1938-2022

Monday, December 5, 2022

Kirstie Alley

(1951-2022)

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Royce Applegate – Rev. Brocklehurst
Frances Bay – Mrs. Tremond/Mrs. Chalfont
James Booth – Ernie Niles
David Bowie – Philip Jeffries
John Boyland - Mayor Milford
Catherine Coulson – Margaret Lanterman
Julee Cruise - Herself
Royal Dano – Judge Sternwood
Don S. Davis – Major Briggs
Miguel Ferrer – Albert Rosenfeld
Robert Forster – Frank Truman
Warren Frost – Dr. Hayward
Pamela Gidley – Theresa Banks
David Lander – Mr. Pinkel
Peggy Lipton – Norma Jennings
Clark Middleton – Charlie
Jack Nance – Pete Martell
Dan O'Herlihy – Andrew Packard
Walter Olkewicz - Jacques Renault
Michael Parks – Jean Renault
Frank Silva – Bob
Harry Dean Stanton – Carl Rodd
Al Strobel – Mike/Philip Gerard
Lenny von Dohlen – Harold Smith
David Warner – Thomas Eckhardt
Kenneth Welsh – Windom Earle
Hank Worden – The Waiter

Al Strobel

1939-2022

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.