First entry of the year
Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues is now traveling Eternity Road. RIP, and thanks for all the great music.
12/29/41 - 1/4/18
First entry of the year
Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues is now traveling Eternity Road. RIP, and thanks for all the great music.
12/29/41 - 1/4/18
Dave Toschi, the lead SF cop in the Zodiac case in the late sixties, has died.
Iām posting this for @WitchKing. Wish we could discuss it with D_M.
RIP Julius Lester (1/27/39 - 1/18/18) died peacefully today.
I donāt know much about his recent life except that he was a regular columnist at the Guardian for many years. He was also a musician who made several recordings Iāve not heard.
But I do remember his bravery and skill as a SNCC photographer recording the heady days in Mississippi and other parts of the Deep South. He had a gift for capturing ālocal peopleā in a photo that spoke volumes to everyone.
He also wrote books, and the only one I am familiar with is To Be A Slave where he had gathered stories told by the last living slaves in their own words.
āLife throws lemons at you and they never add up to anything you can drink.ā ā Joe Frank
Heard that on the radio today. Sad. I always liked him.
RIP, man.
Ursula K. LeGuin, noted sci-fi author
Ouch. She was great.
Oh, wow. That sucks.
Death is the universeās way of throwing a wrench into the works.
"Long ago when I was Ursula
writing, but not āthe writer,ā
and not very plural yet,
and worked with the owls not the sparrows,
being young, scribbling at midnight:
I came to a place
where the road turned and divided,
it seemed like,
going different ways,
I was lost.
I didnāt know which way.
It looked like one roadsign said To Town
and the other didnāt say anything.
So I took the way that didnāt say.
I followed
myself.
āI donāt care,ā I said,
terrified.
āI donāt care if nobody ever reads it!
Iām going this way.ā
And I found myself
in the dark forest, in silence.
You maybe have to find yourself,
yourselves,
in the dark forest.
Anyhow, I did then. And still now,
always. At the bad time.
When you find the hidden catch
in the secret drawer
behind the false panel
inside the concealed compartment
in the desk in the attic
of the house in the dark forest,
and press the spring firmly,
a door flies open to reveal
a bundle of old letters,
and in one of them
is a map
of the forest
that you drew yourself
before you ever went there."
āUrsula K. Le Guin, from āThe Writer on, and at, Her Workā
The Archive Project - Ursula K. Le Guin.
Good luck getting his casket assembled in time for the funeralā¦
Stan Lee - Not dead.
ā¦not yet, but itās inevitable.