Sneakeater

Emma "B-List" Thompson won a Best Actress Oscar.

(Similarly, I remember, long ago, hearing one of the guys who worked in my law firm's cafeteria "knowledgeably" asserting that Dead Again had a "B-cast". Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, and Derek Jacobi: REALLY?????????)

Like Ian McKellen. As far as I'm concerned, the best Western actor of his generation. But was he a star before X-Men and Lord of the Rings? (I was once in a coffee shop where it really chapped my ass to hear some self-appointedly "knowledgeable" Pop Culture Guy at another table loudly bloviate to his [female] companion that Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth was "stunt casting", because as a Pop Culture Guy he wouldn't know that Patrick Stewart was a leading Shakespearean before he was a Star Trek character. Those people make me furious.)

@mongo has it right.

Yeah me too.

This is one of those deaths you were kind of waiting for.

Wait’ll she sees The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Having delved into my collection, I'm not kicking Bambino out of my CD player tray, either. Listening to Leonard Cohen after Flamenco is um illuminating. He wasn't bullshitting about that influence.

Spider crab Spider crab Grabs whatever a crab can grab

Looks really good to me. But I’m debased.

Yeah “nothing”

Speaking personally, a huge influence.

OMG

A superb saxophonist. An even better composer.

Walter Benjamin was a direct descendant of Heinrich Heine.

I just came into Camarón de la Isla’s complete discography. “Pig in shit” would be an understatement.

Good songwriter.

Gold Star? White Star? Something like that. That chopped cheese was highly um controversial (although I myself think that the people complaining that "elevating" the dish caused them to make it more expensive can bite me) (as Hajii's original sort of proves).

He could NOT have still been alive.

I think Wilf lucked out a bit with the Ginger Lemonade. I find that all the other Swoon flavors suffer from the unpleasant bitter aftertaste characteristic of non-sugar sweeteners (even the natural one Swoon uses). The ginger in the Ginger Lemonade shields that aftertaste, I find.

Now that I'm up there a lot, I've been having Hadjii's chopped cheese. I have to say I don't see what the big deal is.

I’m sorry he died, but there was nothing about John David Souther I didn’t hate.