Sunday Singalong: Vale Whitney
Saving All My Love For You was the first Whitney song I ever heard, but How Will I Know was the first one I sang along to with a hairbrush.
Sunday Singalong: Remembering Etta James
Lots of folks have been playing her ballads or her blues songs of lost love, which are classic Etta, but I especially loved her when she got playful. This is one of my favourite versions of You Can Leave Your Hat On.
Vale Anne McCaffrey
Her books were very important to me as a teen, and I loved the adventures that she allowed girls and women to have.
Vale Bob Gould, Bookseller Extraordinaire
If you imagine the stereotypical, small, dusty secondhand bookshop, enlarge it substantially and then imbue this cavern with many of the bigger-on-the-inside properties of the TARDIS as if designed by Escher you might start to get a feel for how those shops worked.
RIP Hazel Dickens
People with strength and conviction are a rare breed and the battles they fight benefit us all.
Lest We Forget
Because it’s Anzac Day, I’ve spent much of my time looking over the various diaries/letters of my greatuncles who took part in the Great War.
Whoydensday: Vale Lis Sladen 1948-2011
Elisabeth Sladen, our beloved Sarah Jane Smith, has died, aged 63. She died after a struggle with cancer that she chose not to make public. Lis Sladen has touched many people through her portrayal of Sarah Jane, both in Doctor Who between 1973 and 1976, and in The Sarah Jane Adventures, between 2007 and 2010. [...]
Friday Hoyden: Vale, Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
I’m sure you’ve all seen the many tributes over the last 24 hours. Elizabeth Taylor was one of those screen legends everybody knew about, but we didn’t really know much about what she was like in person.
Whoydensday: Vale Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)
Raise a glass tonight for Nicholas Courtney, who played UNIT’s Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, appearing with the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors, and also in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He died last night. None of the news sites I’ve seen mention a cause of death, [...]
Signal Boost: Jon Swift Memorial Round-Up 2010
The year-end Blogger Round Up lives on – honour Al Weisel’s memory by reading, bookmarking and/or contributing to the collection of self-nominated favourite posts from 2010.
Vale Jacob F. Baldwin 1951-2010
One of Australia’s pioneering disability activists has died in the early hours of this morning after an extended illness.
Vale Les Paul
Les Paul, dead at 94 from complications of pneumonia. As Tim Dunlop notes, only a few months ago he was still regularly gigging in a club at Times Square, so he was doing what he loved almost right until the end.
Vale Michael Jackson
Wow, I look away from Twitbin for an hour and it explodes: Michael Jackson taken to hospital after being found not breathing, then announced as in a coma and then pronounced dead.
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