Dead Souls

[botley]

Zipf's law is not a conspiracy theory, lol.
It's a linguistic power law probability distribution that i came across and found interesting, where a word's frequency of appearance in literature is inversely proportional to its rank of commonality in a certain and precise way. In other words, THE is the most common word, the second word appears 1/2 as frequently as the first, the third word appears 1/3 as frequently as the first and so on.
It's not some grammarian conspiracy...THAT I KNOW OF! DUM DUM DUM!
And i think it's in the "little things that cheer you up" thread (for fuck's sake) because i thought it was cool.

Also, A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF US related to and were moved by the personages we are discussing here. If i am to understand this thread correctly, it's why we are discussing them.

Edit: and, goddamn, how are you so sure mel brooks is going to be dead soon. He could live another 10 years.

Tell that to George Zipf.

[elevenism]

@botley you fucker

edit: just to be clear, lest my colorful language be confused as some type of assholery, "you fucker" in this case means "you got me on that one. :P "

[botley]

Your candour is accepted, I do not object to your use of colourful metaphors.

[onthewall2983]

[Bachy]

I'm sure Gene Wilder had an amazing sense of humor. I truly wish he had something like this written into his will:

[Ryan]

I'm sure Gene Wilder had an amazing sense of humor. I truly wish he had something like this written into his will:

That would have been epic.

[thevoid99]

Jon Polito of Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and The Man Who Wasn't There at age 65: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jo...ki-1201851203/

[october_midnight]

Jon Polito of Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and The Man Who Wasn't There at age 65: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/jo...ki-1201851203/

Damn that sucks. Loved him as Gideon in The Crow haha.

[Krazy]

Jerry Heller, most notably the former NWA manager, died...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/03/medi...ath/index.html

[ziltoid]

Alexis Arquette passed away today.

http://www.people.com/article/alexis...gender-actress

[thevoid99]

Alexis Arquette passed away today.

http://www.people.com/article/alexis...gender-actress

Dammit, I liked Alexis. Next to Patricia and Rosanna, she was my favorite Arquette. Especially when she went apeshit at some homophobes during an episode of The Surreal Life. That was cool. I also loved her as George in The Wedding Singer. She will be missed.

[BRoswell]

RIP to synth pioneer Don Buchla

Here he is performing with Alessandro:

[thevoid99]

Broadway playwright Edward Albee at age 88: http://variety.com/2016/legit/news/e...lf-1201863220/

[Jinsai]

Don Buchla just died.... holy shit.

[thevoid99]

Shoeless Joe (later adapted into Field of Dreams) author W.P. Kinsella dead of assisted suicide at 81: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...eath-1.3766840

[onthewall2983]

[thevoid99]

Filmmaker Curtis Hanson at age 71: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...dential-861160

Well fuck..... I really did like a lot of films like L.A. Confidential, The Wonder Boys, 8 Mile, In Her Shoes, The Hands That Rock the Cradle, and The River Wild.

[onthewall2983]

[thevoid99]

Bill Dunn was fucking awesome. I liked his small role in the Spider-Man trilogy as well as his role as the orderly who would help Harrison Ford in Regarding Henry.

[Bachy]

Florida Marlins star pitcher Jose Fernandez killed in a boating accident

He was only 24.

[thevoid99]

Buckwheat Zydeco at 68: http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-bu...-zydeco-243122

[onthewall2983]

[thevoid99]

I was going to post this: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/arnold-...004200526.html

Ali, Cruyff, and now Arnold Palmer. Seriously, fuck 2016.

[allegro]

So long, Agnes Nixon, creator of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live"

I am SO sad, you will be sorely missed. You were BRILLIANT!

R.I.P. :-(

[allegro]

I was going to post this: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/arnold-...004200526.html

Ali, Cruyff, and now Arnold Palmer. Seriously, fuck 2016.

Both my biological Dad and my Stepdad were lifetime avid golfers, both really damned good at it. My paternal Grandmother never played golf ever in her entire life, but she LOVED Arnold Palmer. She'd watch golf on TV during my childhood: Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, but Arnold was her man.

When I heard the news that Palmer died, some part of me hoped that my Grandmother was harassing him for an autograph in the afterlife.

[thevoid99]

Other recent deaths include former Israeli leader Shimon Peres and filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis.

[thevoid99]

Sorry for the double-post but a couple of more big deaths in the world of music, Shelleyan Orphan vocalist Caroline Crawley: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1314-t...rawleys-voice/

& Rod Temperton who wrote songs for Michael Jackson.

[thevoid99]

Filmmaker Andrzejj Wadja at 90: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/an...es-1201883386/

[thevoid99]

Sorry for another bump but.... French filmmaker Pierre Etaix: http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-pi...lmmaker-244219

[Ryan]

@thevoid99 - ETS's grim reaper.