Surely you jest! This handsome devil is Dale Winton, entertainer par excellence, host of the British version of Supermarket Sweep among other enviable achievements that uh escape me at present. Died in a cart crash.
Nope, had no idea. I'm an American in Osaka, not an Englishman in New York, so some bits of culture are well outside my ken.
Aye it's those blind corners at the ends of aisles, exacerbated by the excellent aerodynamics and responsiveness of carts that few are truly qualified to handle, not to mention the health-and-safety-violating pile-up of corpses and slippery pools of blood and gore caused by previous collisions. This is why I do all my shopping on the black market. Sure, it's more expensive, but you know where you stand with Pete the Strangler and his horde of pre-pubescent pocket-picking minions, and I don't mind paying for that peace of mind. I take it reason #1 is the same as mine: the giant inflatable bananas?
Dale Winton had/has a cameo in Trainspotting - the film - whilst the hero is undergoing his cold turkey experience, his game show is on the TV.
Larry Harvey of Burningman notoriety died this past weekend at 70. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/burning-man-larry-harvey-passes-202353026.html
Art Paul, 93. Who? Well, he spent five minutes and doodled this out, once upon a time: If you haven't used up your freebies yet, the article is pretty interesting, he did a lot of important graphic design work. It's Washington Post, very SFW.
I know this could go Debate Room real fast, so I'm just going to say that as far as I know, David Goodall is the first person to be allowed legally-sanctioned assisted suicide because he was tired of being alive. Whatever your feelings on the issue, it is a sort of a landmark.
For what it's worth, and I don't know if I should be going into it outside of this debate room I've heard so much about, but I think you should be able to choose when and how you go out, more especially when you reach a 100 and above. So, uhm, good for him, I guess?
Not to make light of a serious subject, but at 104 one has to wonder how much longer he had anyway. Just discovered, when looking into how he uses technology to speak, that Prof Stephen Hawking died back in March of this year. That's probably news to none of you, but it was to me.
The end of page 8 and most of 9 were discussion on Stephen Hawking. I’ve been trying to set aside time to read that multiverse paper he wrote.
Tom Wolfe (author of the Bonfire of the vanities amongst other things) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html
Phillip Roth https://www.yahoo.com/news/philip-roth-fearless-celebrated-author-dies-85-035620109.html
