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The figure-skating world suffered two losses yesterday: the Potomac air crash and the death of Dick Button, a great skater and then a great skating commentator.

Back in the Seventies there was a part of Central Park that was famous as a place for gays to meet for quick anonymous sex. One night a group of alleged human beings decided it would be peachy keen fun to go there with baseball bats and do some literal gay bashing.

One of the victims was Dick Button. He was a network TV star and America was even less sane about sex than it is now, so when the perps were tried, they said that they had somehow wound up hitting random bystanders and poor Mr. Button somehow got in the way.

Fortunately he recovered and continued on his career until his death yesterday. The Times published the official story of the beating in the obit but also noted that one of his survivors was his [male] “longtime companion,”
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Killed for being intelligent women:
Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student
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RIP. Robert Klane, creator of the infamous Weekend at Bernie’s and Where’s Poppa, as well as the equally loathsome but hilarious The Horse Is Dead and Fire Sale, has gone to the Creator’s final dirty joke
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Tommy Lasorda. Storm Constantine. Phil Spector. Hank Aaron. Jimmy Rodgers. Kathleen Ann Goonan. Darroll Pardoe. S. Clay Wilson. Mary Wilson. Larry Flynt. Rowena Morrill. Vincent Jackson. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Larry McMurtry. Beverly Cleary. Penny Frierson. Ramsey Clark. Lloyd Price. Jim Rittenhouse. Jerome Kagan. Marty Helgesen. F. Lee Bailey. Mudcat Grant. Judge Jack Weinstein. Edward de Bono. John McAfee. Al Bouchard. Judi Beth Castro. Jackie Mason. Walter Yetnikoff. Lorna Toolis. Michael M. Thomas. Tom T. Hall. Charlie Watts. Judith Hanna. L. Neil Smith. Carol Carr. Keith McCants. Stephen Vizinczey. Charlie Williams. Sam Cunningham. Langdon Jones. Douglas Barbour. Mary Kay Kare. Aahz Maruch. Joe Moudry. Mort Sahl. Ralph Bailey. Carole Nelson Douglas. Tom Matte. Sam Huff. Justus Rosenberg. Stephen Sondheim. Demariyus Thomas. Anne Rice. bell hooks. Bishop Desmond Tutu. Doris Piserchia. Edward O. Wilson. John Madden. Andrew Vachss. Betty White.
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Marty was a gentleman of wit & style, although he was, to use nonstigmatizing person-first terminology, a person with Catholic sex morality. He enlivened several amateur press associations for years until a few years ago when he was stricken with Alzheimer’s or something like it, and now he is gone. John Hertz remembers him.

Thanx to File 770

RIP

Apr. 9th, 2021 06:47 am
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Margaret Wander Bonanno was best known for writing professional Star Trek fanfic. She used that experience to write Preternatural, a delightful work of recursive sf. I never met her or even personally corresponded with her, but I copy-edited two of her Trek books, Burning Dreams and Catalyst of Sorrows and enjoyed doing so. [Keith R.A. DeCandido]

Thanx to File 770
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Great sf artist. My favorite was Hitler on a motor scooter [Locus]

RIP

Oct. 30th, 2020 07:03 am
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Goodbye to Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote two of the best lines in country music history:
The Devil made me do it the first time.
The second time I done it on my own.
And
There’s one in every crowd.
For crying out loud,
Why was it always turning out to be me?
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Once again I am deeply saddened to lose someone I was never in the same room with. I think I met Alicia Snavely in alt.poly; I know I hung out with her in lj and Facebook, and I always enjoyed it. She went to the hospital a few days ago (probably not COVID), and now she’s dead.
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Neil Kaden, zine, apa, & convention fan, has died

RIP

Jun. 27th, 2020 12:22 pm
supergee: (mourning)
Lester Grinspoon talked sense about drugs. Nevertheless, he lived to be 92. [Reason. CW: libertarian cooties]

Thanx to RAW Illumination.
supergee: (guitar)
Here’s what I wrote about him in 1983, when his second book appeared
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