RIP

[Dmitry]

Is this some kind of a contest I'm not privy to? Every day there's half a dozen obits posted here.

This place is starting to smell funny, if you know what I mean...

Edited April 12, 2017 by Dmitry

[JSngry]

It is a contest, and by still being alive, you are winning. Or losing. That's for you to decide.

[clifford_thornton]

 

[mjzee]

  On 4/12/2017 at 3:10 PM, clifford_thornton said:

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html

[clifford_thornton]

yup, he himself did die!

[Dmitry]

 

Them that die'll be the lucky ones....

Edited April 12, 2017 by Dmitry

[paul secor]

Then I guess we'll all be lucky ones.

[ghost of miles]

Have to say I'm not a fan of this posting trend (is the point that everybody dies, not just jazz musicians we love?  That death, while sad and inevitable, is simply a part of life, etc.?) which has indeed been dominating the "new topics" alert of late.  But it's a free board and all that, c'est la vie... or c'est la mort, as the case may be. 

[Big Beat Steve]

I don't know about this kind of threads about totally non-jazz (in the wider sense) or non-music personalities (celebrities?) which indeed have been proliferating here too, but in the case of musicians or music-related personailities belonging to the (core) realm of this forum, why not take the news of the death of such a person as a moment to remember them and maybe discuss them, even if only briefly? Nothing wrong with that IMO.

[JSngry]

There's some really interesting people (with interesting stories) who die, some of them I've not learned about until they did.

I mean, if Mickey Mantle died (again), everybody would be all over themselves (again) saying so long Mickeroo (again). So, why not Mary Anderson, or people like that? Every bit as interesting, more interesting, really.

There's even been some more recent music or music related deaths not reported here, Dave Peel, Joseph Rascoff, Louis Sarno, the list goes on.

The solution to not having the RIP thread dominating the New Content is simply to have more new content that is not RIP. Post new content about new things.

The math does itself, ok?

 

[Dmitry]

Unless JSngry copypastes about your death on organissimo, your life was nothing. 

You might just get lucky, though. 

 

 

 

[JSngry]

Hey, post about the living, post about the new, post about the possible. Post about all of that. Post a lot about that.

This is a jazz board, right?

[gmonahan]

I don't mind 'em. Jazz musicians often pass away without much notice, and the least we can do is remember them here. As for celebs, that's what the Miscellaneous category is for.

 

 

gregmo

[ghost of miles]

I'm not dead yet

 

Edited April 12, 2017 by ghost of miles

[paul secor]

A book which may be of interest to those who are fans of RIP threads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760484.52_McGs

[GA Russell]

I enjoy the RIP threads because they often remind me of folks I haven't thought about in a long time.

[JohnS]

  On 4/12/2017 at 5:11 PM, gmonahan said:

I don't mind 'em. Jazz musicians often pass away without much notice, and the least we can do is remember them here. As for celebs, that's what the Miscellaneous category is for.

 

 

gregmo

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If we don't read about them here where would we?

[Dmitry]

  On 4/12/2017 at 6:15 PM, JohnS said:

If we don't read about them here where would we?

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Same place where Jim  copypastes them from, i.e. the soon to be late NY Times.

[JSngry]

You mean the late edition, like the afternoon paper? They don't do that, do they?

[paul secor]

Perhaps some folks don't want to be reminded that they won't be around forever.

[Scott Dolan]

  On 4/12/2017 at 6:46 PM, JSngry said:

You mean the late edition, like the afternoon paper? They don't do that, do they?

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Probably not since the mid 20th century, I'd think...

[JSngry]

I guess you can get an evening update electronically now: http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/evening-briefing

That's not the same as a "late edition" though, right?

 

[Bill Nelson]

I'm with Dmitry.  Sangrey's constant posting of RIP's has become tiresome. 

[JSngry]

Not deadly tiresome, I hope.

[Scott Dolan]

  On 4/12/2017 at 8:26 PM, JSngry said:

I guess you can get an evening update electronically now: http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/evening-briefing

That's not the same as a "late edition" though, right?

 

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Um, no. 

There are no true "editions" in the intertubes age...

24/7 news cycle, FTW! 

  On 4/12/2017 at 8:57 PM, Bill Nelson said:

I'm with Dmitry.  Sangrey's constant posting of RIP's has become tiresome. 

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There's an absurdly simple way of avoiding them. Would you like me to tell you what it is?