Dropping Like Flies

Sidehatch wrote:

jaded wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
nother rock-n-rolla going to the big jam in the sky

Dallas Taylor

The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums

Ermm…..2015

Drats…again! I saw the date was 1/18…neglected to check the year

One of my Facebook friends just posted this as if it just happened as well.  Weird.

Relaxer wrote:
The List of Stupid Jerks Who Suck? Well that's probably a good thing, at least for his family.

Good thing you're such a perfect human being, or you'd look like a jerk yourself with that comment.  ;)

Andrew Dog Johnson brother of Matt Johnson and artist behind those The The album covers

^gonna miss that guy
really overrated as a drummer, but could he party


diagnosed with threadbaring syndrome

even worse….Everyone is dying


reports from around the world have confirmed that the majority of, if not all people, are currently dying.

Following on from the recent, seemingly never ending deluge of well known individuals from the world of acting, music and beyond in a constant state of passing over to the other side, comes expert testimony confirming everyone is dying as we speak.

Carlos wrote:
Rock legend Animal dead at age 66

He didn't look a hair over 65.

f u c k.. all the music animal played on is frickin' sold out on amazon and people are hawkin' all sorts of animal shit on ebay.. care for an animal drum stick (or so they say..)

Abe Vigoda

Yada wrote:
Abe Vigoda

somebody needs to tell these guys http://www.abevigoda.com/

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/26/464420101/longtime-white-house-protester-dies-after-vigil-that-started-in-1981

jaded wrote:
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/26/464420101/longtime-white-house-protester-dies-after-vigil-that-started-in-1981

man.. a DC legend… much like compliment man, belvis, the guy who shuffled around town with a paper under his arm in his electric blue suit, etc..

Sidehatch wrote:

Yada wrote:
Abe Vigoda

somebody needs to tell these guys http://www.abevigoda.com/

Done

jaded wrote:
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Wow - haven't thought of her in a while.  When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time…

vansmack wrote:

jaded wrote:
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Wow - haven't thought of her in a while.  When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time…

humblebrag

hutch wrote:

vansmack wrote:

jaded wrote:
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Wow - haven't thought of her in a while.  When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time…

humblebrag

When I used to work at the White House, I talked to her almost every day… beat that. ;)

Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc… Any deets?

jaded wrote:
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So I guess that Fugazi reunion really never will happen now.

Yada wrote:Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc… Any deets?

Hutch had found a city paper article a few years back
but have not see or heard from him in over a decade

Sidehatch wrote:

Yada wrote:Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc… Any deets?

Hutch had found a city paper article a few years back
but have not see or heard from him in over a decade

oh well I saw him a few years back.. maybe 3..

well electric blue suit guy otherwise known as newspaper guy was fascinating.. he had this schedule he would do every day around Adams/Dupont/U Street where he would stop say at a bookstore , buy a paper, then shuffle down the hill to say the record store/.  he would talk to the store clerk who would seem mildly irritated- sometimes- then move along and he just spent all day like that going from place to place to place..without exception no matter the weather.. no matter how hot in his electric blue suit..I think he also had a gray suit.. both were quiet OVERSIZED..

when I had a child on the autism spectrum three years back and realized a little about what it was -which took a while- I put 2 and 2 together and began to think maybe he was on the spectrum… probably high functioning maybe aspergers (which is a weird classification)…. i think it explains a bit of his behavior which was so repetitive in many aspects: always the same clothes.. always the same stores/.. the same walk in the same order….even the shuffle walk (my child has OT/ST/PT issues)…there used to be a facebook page dedicated to him.. "where is mark" I forget his last name…but it sort of petered out.. I think one time I posted a picture of him on that page…people would be like posting "saw him on the bla bla bus at 3:42 pm Thursday".. the owner of Som records would know where he is that is for sure as he used to stop there all the time even though he never not once bought anything..

he sure walked a lot… one of the last times I saw him was all the way up in Columbia Heights in front of that mall with the Target (on the other side of the street).. probably six years ago

the rumour I always heard was that he was a trust fund guy which afforded him the ability to do pretty much nothing… I can't imagine he would have enjoyed sticking around as the neighborhood became so horribly gentrified and so much of what he was "used to" changed.. it would be horribly "uprooting" for someone on the spectrum who defined his life in terms of doing the same things and having the same limited social interactions with the same people to have that all change so drastically..on the other hand changing environments entirely could be even worse so he might still be around..

I have to say he always seemed like a nice guy.. just a little out of sorts..all the times I walked past him I don't know that I ever said "hi" because there was some really weird vibe.. of course I ran into him so much on those circuits of his- because I had my own circuits for years (2003-2010) so maybe he thought/thinks the same thing about me! And sometimes it does make me wonder…like maybe I'm the socially dysfunctional one..well I kinda am as you can tell.