To those no longer with us....

[PA Jack]

Fernando Valenzuela, 63. I was never a Dodgers fan (I get disappointed by the Phillies each year), but he was a great guy and a fun player to watch. It appeared he was looking up and saying a prayer during his wind-up on each pitch. Another one gone at a too-young age. RIP.

[dlodoski]

Fernando Valenzuela, 63. I was never a Dodgers fan (I get disappointed by the Phillies each year), but he was a great guy and a fun player to watch. It appeared he was looking up and saying a prayer during his wind-up on each pitch. Another one gone at a too-young age. RIP.

Oh, yea. The memories. The 'looking up' thing was classic.

I was a lucky baseball fan back then. I was at MSU when the Tigers won the World Series in 1984 and then moved to LA in 1986, in time for the Dodgers to win it in 1988 (with Kirk Gibson - from the Tigers, no less).

In Detroit, it was Senor Smoke (Willie Hernández) providing Hispanic entertainment on the mound. In LA, it was Fernando Valenzuela. Fun times.

(Not to forget Orel Hershiser - who really did the heavy lifting for the Dodgers in that series).

[PA Jack]

At the risk of two in one day, Ron Ely, 86. He was pretty good on TV playing an intelligent Tarzan who could actually speak fluent English. Only I don’t remember (while religiously watching and hoping, in that pre-VCR, pre-internet age) a single female quicksand scene in that entire series, only a couple of male scenes. A good show, but what a waste amidst all of that jungle and all of those female guest stars . . . (sigh).

[MadMax359]

Fernando just took the baseball world on Fire! a breakthrough figure

and i remember Ron as well, that was a series that needed one of us in the writing room

[Boggy Man]

Here is an interesting article on Ron Ely:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/entertai ... index.html

Tarzan with Ron Ely was the most impactful of all the tarzan series on me when I was growing up, especially quicksand-wise! I still haven't been able to find out which episode had an extremely dramatic sinking scene in it, but hopefully in the future, it will be found. I did find some episodes available online briefly before they were taken down, with quicksand, and Dave uploaded them to mpvstuff!

Here are the episodes. If you want to get to the quicksand scenes while streaming, you should advance in tiny increments at a time, or it seems to get stuck on buffering (or you could just download them):

The Three Faces Of Death (25:33) - A cage contains a quicksand pit, among other hazards.
The Deadly Silence Part 1 - No quicksand in part 1.
The Deadly Silence Part 2 (19:00) - Tarzan falls into quicksand, pulls himself out, throws bad guy in, who sinks under.
The End Of The River (26:30) - Tarzan helps a man to pull another man out of quicksand, only to fall in himself, and needs the help of an elephant to escape.

[OBI-wan]

Phil Lesh, 84, bassist for the Grateful Dead.

[BogDog]

Just found out myself.

“All of these guys, the only way they would ever stop playing is when they actually died. That’s the only way you’re going to get somebody like Phil to stop, and he was going right up until the very end,”





"Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died yesterday (Oct. 25) at age 84.

The Grateful Dead practiced in its early days at Lesh’s home in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto at 1012 High Street. That’s where Jerry Garcia came up with the name for the band, legend has it.

They played their first ever show at Magoo’s Pizza Parlor in downtown Menlo Park on May 5, 1965, when the band was still called the Warlocks.



It was New Year’s Eve in 1963, and Jerry Garcia was teaching banjo lessons at Dana Morgan Music Store in downtown Palo Alto at 534 Bryant St., Levitsky said.

Garcia’s students didn’t show up because of the holiday. Guitarist Bob Weir heard Garcia practicing and went in, and they became friends and fellow musicians, Levitsky said. Their original bassist was Dana Morgan Jr., the son of the store owner who could help get them instruments, Levitsky said. But Garcia decided Morgan Jr. wasn’t good enough and replaced him with Lesh.

The Grateful Dead played at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater throughout the 1980s. Then they got too popular for the venue. By the time Garcia died in 1995, the band was playing for crowds of more than 100,000.

[MadMax359]

what a long, strange (but wonderful) trip it's been

[BogDog]

I nearly made a bad error and almost posted a notice for Elton John. Some low-life a-hole put a video on YT yesterday stating that he had passed and I only ran across the sick vid today.

I had started making a post about it here but decided to double check before hitting SUBMIT. I found nothing backing up the claim so I canceled the post. Glad to hear that rocket man is still here.

Fake clip seen here: https://youtu.be/pZ4nt1vV558?si=DVLaPMYsHDZBSXPA&t=0



I think this video is most appropriate at the moment. Agree?

https://youtu.be/ZHwVBirqD2s

[MadMax359]

Yes, and i'm glad too!


there will be time for this later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REfKNbNndzo