In Remembrance...2008

[GrayLinnorm]

Marilyn Ferguson, who wrote The Aquarian Conspiracy, a work that helped unify the New Age movement, died October 19. She was 70.

 

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Jacques Piccard, a scientist and explorer who dove deeper into the ocean than anyone else and who helped invent (with his father) the bathyscape, died yesterday. He was 86.

 

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Shakir Stewart, the vice president of Def Jam Records, shot himself last Saturday. He was 34.

 

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William Stall, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who covered California politics and the enviroment for the Los Angeles Times, died Sunday from complications from pulmonary disease. He was 71.

 

[Afrodyte]

RIP Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes, the man who brought us Shack and added a lil' soul to South Park, died of a stroke on August 10, 2008.

Here's a little tribute to Chocolate Salty Balls.

 

[Afrodyte]

George Carlin

We also lost George Carlin. I miss you, George. And I say the 7 Dirty Words everyday in your honor.

The one that started it all.

 

[Storm Raven]

CNN is reporting that Michael Crichton has died.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Jimmy Carl Black, drummer for the Mothers of Invention, died last Saturday of cancer. He was 70.

 

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Baldev Raj Chopra, one of India's most prominent filmmakers, died today after a long illness. He was 94.

Chopra was known for making socially relevant films with widespread popular appeal.

 

[frankthedm]

CNN is reporting that Michael Crichton has died.

Yep. http://www.crichton-official.com/