Jesus! We've lost so many this year, and so many were unexpected. Now - just under the wire - George Michael, Richard Adams (writer of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs), and Carrie Fisher are gone as well. Fuck. This. Shit ( Read more... )

As if last week wasn't bad enough, Leonard Cohen passed beyond the veil last Friday. Montreal (and all of Canada, really) is in mourning ( Read more... )

Fuck.

Prince is dead.

2016, stop it already! If you keep going at this pace, we won't have any cool left by year's end >:/

Here, have a link to some of the best Prince GIFs around. Don your raspberry berets and yellow platform boots, everyone...


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Alan Rickman died today of cancer. He was 69. It's not right that the universe should take BOTH Bowie and Rickman from us in the same week.


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Former frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver Scott Weiland is dead. He fought addiction and bipolar disorder his whole adult life. There's no word on how he died, just that he died while on tour in Minnesota. He was 48 years old ( Read more... )

Malene Arpe is dead.Malene was the former film section editor for the now defunct (I still miss it!) Eye Weekly and then moved over to be the entertainment blogger for the Toronto Star. I followed her Stargazing posts (in all of their various media forms) for years. She was a nerd of the first order, she loved reading EVERYTHING, she was blunt and ( Read more... )

This link comes via x_los (I'm sorry to link to Twitter, but I'm not posting this screengrab on my blog): a theory that attributes the Germanwings crash to 'Omega' male rage towards women. The fourth paragraph is exceptionally insulting, but the faux-profile analysis of the dead pilot's psychological make-up based solely on his now-famous San Francisco ( Read more... )

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Lauren Bacall 1924 - 2014


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