None so far but seems like a good time to set it up.

That's worryingly enthusiastic!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 January 2025, 01:14:56 PMThat's worryingly enthusiastic!

I was thinking much the same

Death and Taxes, people! Best to be prepared.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Well, it's not Putin, but it's a start.

QuoteWell, it's not Putin, but it's a start.

Peter Yarrow, 86, one third of the folksy trio Peter Paul & Mary and writer of "Puff the Magic Dragon" - which he continually denied had anything to do with hallucinogenics 

Sam Moore aged 89
Soul Man

Sam Moore maybe?
Sam Cooke, the King of Soul, died a long time ago.

Yeah, meant him

Tony Slattery
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/14/comedian-tony-slattery-dies-aged-65-after-heart-attack?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR12y4ctD1xzlDWr_80MtVksLPzfGmug3eeCV3qsY8fUmRvi8WoB80j1WWA_aem_Qk03Uf1tFVYwQhhQz4CApQ#Echobox=1736864419

Brilliantly funny man, but had so many personal demons to deal with. A sad loss.

What Steve said - sad loss.

David Lodge (author not the actor).
1 Jan 2025 - I missed it until reading the Bookseller this afternoon.
I read a lot of his work but loved 'Changing Places', 'Small World' and 'Nice Work' in particular - his 'Campus Trilogy'.
Sad. I read the first of those when it came out in 1975 when I was at University.

Those three are good. The rest would have left no hole in my life by their absences.

You are probably right.
How far Can You Go I found amusing because it was essentially pulling apart a lot of religious, specifically Roman Catholic, dogma and I was probably at callow stage in my life when that felt a useful stance to take.
Therapy has a place in my memory I find hard to address too rationally - at the time I read it, I was going out with a female Methodist Minister who had studied Kierkegaardian philosophy at University, and I remember the discussions at 3 in the morning taking something of the spontaneity from the reading experience.
Deaf Sentence felt rather sad as it obviously reflected a personal descent and although there were interesting insights I wasn't sure they made a novel.
Thinks - you know... I read it and meant to read it again to try and discover what it was I missed, but somehow I've never got round to it. It felt a little gratuitous and self-consciously reworking old University tropes from his other works.
I'm glad I read the other things but it was the three in my first post that make me remember his work with great affection, if only for Maurice Zapp and Perrse McGarrigle.

I'd like to meet Fulvia Morgana for a weekend, myself.

Linda Nolan

David Lynch, Director of the avant-garde film Eraserhead; the landmark TV series Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive, dies, aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works.