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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2020 21:30:12 GMT -5
I just learned that Sam McBratney, the author of the beloved children's book Guess How Much I Love You, died last week at the age of 77. One of my favorites ...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 2, 2020 14:22:18 GMT -5
I was going to say that this feels like deja vu. He died in December of last year. Oops. Sorry, saw the link to the obit elsewhere and didn't check the date. Original post deleted to avoid confusion.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 2, 2020 21:12:36 GMT -5
One that was missed, on September 30, comics giant Quino, creator of Mafalda, passed away, after a stroke. Born Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon, in Mendoza, Argentina, to Andalusian parents. He was known as Quino, to differentiate him from a favorite uncle, who was an illustrator and helped set him on the path to becoming a cartoonist beloved the world over. He worked in commercial art and developed his famous character, Mafalda, for an advertising campaign for the Mansfield line of products, choosing the name because it sounded similar to Mansfield. The comic strip was offered to the newspaper Clarin, but they twigged to the advertising element of it and rejected it. Quino turned it into an honest to goodness strip, featuring a bright 6 year old girl, with a cynical nature and some very mature and pointed questions about the state of the world. It was first published in Primera Plana, then moved to El Mundo. It soon became known the world over, with comparisons to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, which was an inspiration to Quino. Mafalda ran with her group of friends, the dreamer Felipe, the somewhat slow Manolito, the frivolous Susanita, the youngest, Manolito, her brother Guille, hte little girl Libertad, and Muriel, who Felipe is sweet on. Also appear are her parents, her mother, who she harasses about being a housewife, and her father, who tries to avoid some of her questions, but shares her dislike of school. Quino ended the strip in 1973, partially out of fear of political reprisals in the conservative Argentina, but he continued to use the character for other cartoons and special productions, such as for UNICEF. After the coup in 1976, he left Argentina for Milan, Italy and continued his work, producing editorial cartoons and other work, using Mafalda to promote human rights and similar causes. He later helped produce cartoons based on his drawings, including Mafalda shorts. Charles Schulz has praised his work, both in the drawing and the insight of his characters and he has receivied multiple awards. There is a life-size statue of Mafalda, in Buenos Ares, and a passageway in Angouleme, France (which hosts the International Comics Festival and museum) is named after her. To Latin American cartoonists, Quino is the equivalent of Charles Schulz to Americans, or Osamu Tezuka, to the Japanese, or Herge to the Franco-Belgians. The man was a titan, with a wry sense of humor and an ability to depict the worldview of children, especially their often difficult questions.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 22:51:35 GMT -5
RIP to Hall of Fame pitcher and former Cardinal great Bob Gibson. He was 84. -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 2, 2020 23:10:23 GMT -5
RIP to Hall of Fame pitcher and former Cardinal great Bob Gibson. He was 84. -M Oh, no. One of my favorites. What a competitor, what a pitcher, but most of all, what a man he was.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 8:00:24 GMT -5
Gibson's '68 season is the most amazing in sports, but I think my favorite thing about it may be that he was only removed from a game six times and they were all pinch hit situations, never for another pitcher. Lowered the mound and shrunk the strikezone, because Gibby was like a videogame on easy mode.
R.I.P.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 14:09:27 GMT -5
Just saw this on Twitter. Pretty good.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 6, 2020 14:54:40 GMT -5
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Post by brianf on Oct 6, 2020 15:24:03 GMT -5
That time Eddie Van Halen played with Brian May of Queen
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 6, 2020 15:31:42 GMT -5
R. I. P. Eddie Van Halen.
I honestly haven't listened to Van Halen in a couple of decades. But they were absolutely a huge part of the soundtrack of junior high and high school.
I did get to see Van Hagar one time when they were touring for "5150." I was sitting on the front porch of the TKE house when some people were walking down Euclid heading to the concert. They had an extra ticket and just gave it to me. So that was nice.
Might as well Jump.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 15:38:00 GMT -5
I probably only liked the group with Sammy Hagar. Sorry Eddie suffered so much in the last while.
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 6, 2020 20:24:29 GMT -5
Not a Van Halen fan (the only song of theirs I like is on the Gary Cherone album, which tells you something), but I respect the man. RIP.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 7, 2020 0:04:11 GMT -5
Fairly neutral about Van Halen...liked a few, didn't like a lot, not a fan of Van Hagar or what followed. Respect his guitar work, though I'll still take Roy Orbison over Van Halen, any day. Still, I used to play "Running With the Devil" quite a lot, in college, instead of the 1984 stuff.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 7, 2020 1:45:29 GMT -5
Shame to hear about Eddie Van Halen. He sure was one hell of a guitarist. I wasn't a massive fan of the band Van Halen or anything, but there were a handful of singles that I liked. By far my favourite thing that Eddie was ever involved in was Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" (that's him playing the mind-melting guitar solo).
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Post by berkley on Oct 7, 2020 2:02:22 GMT -5
I probably only liked the group with Sammy Hagar. Sorry Eddie suffered so much in the last while. Hagar was a much better singer than David Lee Roth, but I never much liked the band's sound in either incarnation, even though I was just about exactly the right age to be into them. Not sure why, since I like a lot of other stuff in that general vein, Zeppelin, etc.
Regardless, Eddie Van Halen was not only obviously a great talent but he always seemed like a nice guy too, with that infectious grin. Sixty-something seems very young to go, these days.
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