I put this in another thread, but I like the story so here it is again. Bob Knight coached TTU here in Lubbock long before I moved here. The first story I was told about him when I moved here was that he was at the Market Street grocery store just a couple of miles off campus having lunch. He was getting food from the salad bar when a local said something that set him off. They started arguing and it escalated into a food fight with both of them screaming and cussing at each other until the cops came. That story is looked upon fondly and is told with a smile by everyone who knows it. Knight was deeply flawed, but he could coach about as well as anyone who has ever done the job.
I gave up that opinion when he cut Charles Barkley from the Pan-Am camp because he didn't look like an athlete. Half the assistants quit over that one IIRC.
Kool & The Gang drummer and founding member George 'Funky' Brown dies at 74 (Jan. 15, 1949 - Nov 16, 2023) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...he-gang-drummer-george-brown-dead-1234885847/
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter - 96 (8/18/1927-11/19/2023) https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ros...ce-care-home-carter-center/story?id=104987086
Mars Williams - 68 (May 29, 1955 - November 20, 2023) saxophonist of the Psychedelic Furs, The Waitresses, and Liquid Soul, dies from cancer. https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...ic-furs-liquid-souls-saxophonist/71663717007/
Greg "Fingers" Taylor - 71 (June 3, 1952 – November 23, 2023) https://www.buffettnews.com/2023/11/25/31575/
Marty Krofft I spent many an hour in the 1970s watching his kiddie drug references like H.R. Pufnstuf. (H.R. stands for hand rolled dontcha know.)
Jean Knight died. I've been hanging onto my Stax 45 of "Mr. Big Stuff" for decades hoping I'd meet her someday and could ask her to sign it.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/28/investing/charlie-munger-dies/index.html Charlie Munger, friend and business partner of Warren Buffett, dies
The best boogie woogie player in Taos has passed. Novelist, neighbor, fellow alum, and occasional brunch partner John Nichols, 83, Monday, heart failure. "Milagro Beanfield War" and "Magic Journey" were the famous ones, but I thought "American Blood," harsh as it is, was his best work. Sometimes a single passing makes a small town a whole lot smaller.
Frances Sternhagen died. I didn't see much of her TV work, and I never saw her on the stage (where she got her biggest plaudits); but I saw her in a lot of movies, and I don't think I ever saw her play a role I didn't like.
Heinz Alfred Kissinger - 100 (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...r-former-secretary-state-dies-100/8514351002/
Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Pogues, 65. Just in time for us cynics to love the harsh beauty of Fairytale of New York.
I just came to post about this. Within the last week, I asked my wife if he was still alive, because I genuinely wasn't sure. We wondered if he was going to unexpectedly live forever a la Keith Richards. Now she says I killed him. I don't know if I'll be able to sing the Mojo Nixon song "Shane's Dentist" again.
We could and very often have done a whole lot worse-- she was pretty good. Really should have recused in Bush v Gore though. That was a big stain on her robe...
For anybody who likes drone or other ambient music, Brian McBride of the duo Stars of the Lid recently died at 53. Unknown cause.