RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

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Delusional Socialists of America (DSA) need to get going here, less than a year 'til the middy's!

 

TIL that Anthony Geary was a) Mormon and b) gay.

 

A beautiful eulogy. RIP LaNasia. LaNasia Warner, who was loved.

 

Completely heartbreaking. Sorry Val.

 

Since you got personal, there something I have been wrestling with but havent mentioned. My oldest brother Injured Tiger had a heart attack as he slept on Thanksgiving morning and never woke up.

To follow the acronyms I give myself and my family
Deadlytigers - Dad
LadyTigers - Mom
InjuredTigers - oldest brother
WoundedTigers - middle brother
Deadtigers - Me, youngest son

It is all a bit weird and hard to wrap my head around. Me and Injured only spoke by phone and that was once in a while. Its not we weren't close, he just wasnt a texter. He was 15 years my senior so early 60s when he died. I always saw him when I went to visit as he lived with my mom. So he doesnt feel gone.

Then you have the fact that I was just down for the 10 years anniversary of the passing of Deadly Tigers. He died in August of 2015 but my finances and schedule didnt allow me to visit until November when Wounded was in town to visit to celebrate his birthday. So I left town Monday morning and waved to him as he was dozing off, he died a few days later. Like wrf?!

Part of me wants to believe the days spent with my mom, my brother's and sis in law, was god's gift before he took him but I am upset that he was likely neuroDivergent and his self medication using alcohol and other drugs in his past was him copping and nobody knew how to help him til he was too far gone.

It will all hip me when I get back to NYC in January. I have had moments when I have gotten sad and teary eyed but not a good long cry yet.

 

Well, after those last couple of personal remembrances, I feel kind of shitty for posting this one, but Gil Gerard, television's Buck Rogers. For anyone who has fond memories of Buck Rogers on TV when they were younger, you probably shouldn't rewatch the show at all, because it hasn't aged well. Except maybe for the episodes with Princess Ardala, those have aged just fine. But Gerard wasn't awful in that role.

 

Don't. Death is a part of life. We aren't gonna make it out of this thing alive.

Also injured loved sci-fi. He had been watching the Sci-Fi channel since Mystery Science theater. I don't know why because myself and Wounded were never that big on sci-fi except for comic books. This guy would watch the old Battlestar Galactica the new one Buck Rogers, sharknado, Atlantic Rim which was the Channel's ripoff of Pacific Rim, you name it.

 

My wife sent me a video about this documentary called being poor. And if I was like three or four family and just how these children are raised in poverty and how hard it is for them to make it out and the ones who do make it out literally cut off the family. They move out the state and like limited communication or that and it seems to be the only way to break the cycle is to break all contact.

Edit: Born Poor

 

So sorry to hear about Nasia and Injured Tiger, sad to hear. My condolences to both sets of families and loved ones.

I lost a friend in early November, and it's still hard to imagine. Dave was the president of my Toastmasters club, a truly good guy who was always encouraging people and giving them positive feedback and speaking tips. I was surprised to hear he was 54, since I would have thought 47-48. He always ate healthy, went to the gym 3-4 times a week. He just collapsed as he was returning home one night. They still don't know the cause.

Then, the night before Thanksgiving, my cousin Charlie passed. We were close when we were kids, being the same age and all that. He had a rough time of it, always being overshadowed by his 2 older brothers who had more outgoing, charismatic personalities.

I'll miss you both

A couple more posts like this, and we'll have to change the name of this thread to the "let's totally bum everyone out" thread

 

Peter Arnett, an intrepid Associated Press combat correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Vietnam War and became one of the world’s best-known television reporters on the scene of wars and insurrections for 18 years with CNN, died on Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 91.

 

A year or so ago I deleted my Twitter account. I joined Twitter in 2009 as a student. It ended up becoming a useful tool as a journalist and media person. Still used it when I switched to advertising.

Then Musk buys it and wrecks everything good about it. The blue check, which was a way to verify prominent people in their fields gets wrecked because some people got their asses handed to them by said blue checks. Then Musk turns it into a pay to play system. The bots, especially the porn bots. Every reply had some porn bot but the worst Twitter was under the old owners was Justin Bieber trending every day in the early 10s. Not to mention the way Musk was turning Twitter into something like cities in the 80s.

Blue Sky has its faults, but it isn’t the echo chamber people (like Truth Social or Twitter is) think it is. I follow sports people on there (Mina Kimes), plenty of Detroit based stuff. Chelsea as well. Either way, Blue Sky is the closest to what Twitter was before Musk bought it.

Anyway, this new job hasn’t had me on social media as much plus I’m just waiting out Trump’s second term because it’s Republican stuff on steroids.

 

Just having three of these would be a hell of a an accomplishment for any director.

 

Even just Spinal Tap would put him on par with John Kennedy O'Toole (wrote " A Confederacy of Dunces).

But yes Meathead done good

 

As someone who has struggles with addiction, I am sorry for your loss. I'm sorry that you've had to see a loved one struggle with addiction. It's very hard to understand from the outside looking in. It's a cycle that is very hard to break out of and to beat. Oftentimes we just replace an addiction with another one. At its core it's a lack of connection. And because of trauma. And people just want you to make better choices without understanding why things are different for you.

I appreciated the candor in which you talked about her. I can tell that you are in real pain. Sometimes things happen to us that don't happen to other people and it makes everything different. I linked a video that does the best job of explaining it in my opinion. It's a lack of connection.

 

“I judge people by how they treat me, and Rob Reiner was a Godsend in my life. We got along great, we loved each other… He was always on my side,” Woods said. “When people would say to me, ‘What do you think of his politics?’ I would say, ‘I think Rob Reiner is a great patriot. Do I agree on many of his ideas on how that patriotism should be enacted, to celebrate the America that we both love? No. He doesn’t agree with me either, but he also respects my patriotism. We had a different path to the same destination, which was a country we both love. Because you disagree with people doesn’t mean that you have to hate people."
-- James Woods



http://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-woods-rob-reiner-death-remarks-1236609668/

 

A tweet contains Woods’ segment on Watters

🚨 MUST WATCH: Legendary Actor JAMES WOODS gets EMOTIONAL when talking about ROB REINER’S MURDER 🚨

“Rob literally SAVED my CAREER and really put me back on track in a way that was so important and rewarding in my life” 🤯

“People would go, ‘How is it that you and Rob Reiner… pic.twitter.com/XTCc0LYkfR

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) December 16, 2025

 

That interview is a much watch…it’s only 6 minutes.

Woods and Reiner bonding over shared patriotism, that’s dead in today’s America. It’s just dead, a 100% anachronism. And that is very, very sad, and very, very bad for America.

“People don’t think anymore.”

yep

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forums/politics-current-events.159/

 

I’m surprised a producer didn’t pull the plug when Woods said, “just because you disagree with someone doesn’t mean you have to hate someone.”

Totally goes against the Fox News business model.

 

He put a lot of time into using his ability as a helicopter pilot to help during natural disasters

Devastating news. I had such tremendous respect for Greg as a driver, and we shared countless tough battles on the track. Like so many others, I was inspired by his tireless relief work during Hurricane Helene. My heart goes out to the Biffle family and everyone hurting. pic.twitter.com/TN9vbqjpZ4

— Jeff Gordon (@JeffGordonWeb) December 18, 2025