Lest we forget… December 29, 2012
Posted by WorldbyStorm in The Left.trackback
…EamonnCork makes the point that there’s no thread for those who died this year. And as he notes Gerry Anderson who was a towering figure in parts of popular culture is a good example of same. For my money Anderson’s best work was that on UFO – a weird campy but sometimes surprisingly adult programme, but perhaps that’s unfair. Above are the end titles to UFO – brilliant stuff. His earlier work was excellent, later things got a bit ropey. Space: 1999 never quite lived up to its premise, and became a curious mixture of the chill and sillyness – sort of 200!:A Space Odyssey visuals entrapped by the constraints of children’s tv tropes of the time.
Then there was Patrick Moore. And many others. But what of figures on the left of other areas. Eric Hobsbawm immediately springs to mind. And others…
The Cedar Lounge Revolution 
OMG, guys in futuristic string vests showing their nipples! Yikes! All the girls are tasty and wearing shiny mini-skirts or tight pants. No room in the future (or was it actually now?) for fatties in lurex then!! I suppose cosmoseutical science would have eliminated any unsightliness!
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This guy deserves to be remembered. This particular tune never stales, whereas we’ve probably all heard Take Five often enough at this stage.
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Ben Gazzara
George McGovern
Earl Scruggs
Charles Rosen
Chris Marker
Theo Angelopolous
Donna Summer
Tommy Keane
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And this man deserves a space of his own.
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I noticed the RTÉ sports awards included former cork hurling coach Canon Michael O’Brien in the list of those who died during the year, when the Canon is still alive. I would not like to have been at the end of the phone in RTÉ when the county board rang in. Bad mistake to make.
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I suppose people who are able to make the highlight of their very own show take place during the ad break are capable of anything. They confused the Canon with the horse racing trainer Michael O’Brien who’d just died.
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And a word for Alexander Cockburn:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Cockbu
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James Filkoski RIP
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when i was a kid i was very interested in astronomy. these days i have a telescope at home.”
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