Old School Pink Floyd (L-R) Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Rick Wright
Pink Floyd keyboard player and founding member Richard “Rick” Wright has died on September 15th, 2008 after a short struggle with cancer. He was 65. Wright was a member of Pink Floyd from their first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the group shortly afterwards. Wright penned songs on classic albums including The Dark Side Of The Moon – “The Great Gig In The Sky” and “Us And Them” – and Wish You Were Here.
Three years ago, David Foster Wallace delivered the commencement address at Kenyon College. “Adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head,” he told the graduating seniors. “They shoot the terrible master.” Those cutting words cut deeper in the wake of Wallace’s own, inner collapse: The 46-year-old fiction writer and essayist took his own life on Friday, September 12th, 2008.
It’s official: Playgirl Magazine has shuttered for good. This is sad news for gay men, and women who enjoy looking at naked pictures of gay men, everywhere. Playgirl was never really my thing, but I’ll always remember when Type O Negative’s lead singer, Peter Steele, took it all off for the magazine back in 1995. Ah, sweet, sweet memories.
ABSOLUTELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK IMAGE OF WHAT MADE THAT PETE STEELE ISSUE SO MEMORABLE, AFTER THE JUMP!
Larry Harmon Poses With the Clown That Made Him Famous
Larry Harmon, better known as one of many actors to portray the frightening, redheaded ‘60s children’s show host Bozo the Clown, has died at age 83. As a kid, I used to watch the original Bozo The Clown show on TV, but that was more because it was the only thing on, as opposed to it being really high quality broadcast entertainment. Bozo was the most ghetto kids’ show ever, but the character still gets bragging rights in the “Entertainment legend” category, even if the show absolutely sucked. And I’m not much of a fan of clowns anyway.
Jim McKay, the legendary sports announcer who coined the phrase, “The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Defeat” for ABC’s Wide World of Sports has passed away at age 86. He had a good, long life.
