Tony Gwynn: Rest In Peace – Rest In Steesh
RIP Tony Gwynn
Leave a reply
Tag Archives: RIP
RIP David “Deacon” Jones – The Sackman
David “Deacon” Jones died at the age of 74. Jones was a defensive end in the NFL who came up with the term “sack” for tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. It sounds like Jones might have killed a raccoon or two as a child based on his description of a sack.
“You take all the offensive linemen and put them in a burlap bag, and then you take a baseball bat and beat on the bag. You’re sacking them, you’re bagging them. And that’s what you’re doing with a quarterback.”
RIP Norbert Blei, Author and Steeshman
American writer Norbert Blei has passed away at the age of 78. He wrote 17 books of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and essays. Norbert was born in Chicago and attended Illinois State University which is in Bloomington-Normal. Coincidentally, I was there just the other weekend. While there I authored one of the must delicious cups of self-serve frozen yogurt you could ever imagine. Multiple flavors of frozen yogurt? Check. Ground up thin mints? Check. Cookie dough balls? Check. Reeses Pieces and Peanut Butter Cups? Check and Check. But I digress.
Rest in peace to Mr. Blei, who created some great pieces of art in his day that will live on well beyond his passing, even if it was overshadowed by a masterfully crafted frozen yogurt treat. I definitely should have taken a picture. Damn it.
RIP Allan Arbus – M(ust)*A*S*H
Allan Arbus was a photography and actor, best known for playing Major Sidney Freedman on M*A*S*H. The New York Times described his character by saying, “He treated wounds of the psyche much as Capt. Hawkeye Pierce treated surgery patients: with a never-ending string of zingers.” He’s probably glad he was unable to read that. Rest in peace and rest in steesh.
Rest In Peace – Paul Bearer
Bill Moody, better known as Paul Bearer has passed away. No official word on a cause of death but we’ve all been assuming it would be a heart attack since we first saw him in the early 90’s. Rest in Peace Paul. You were a great entertainer and had amazing facial expressions.
Sad mustache news: Upper Deck baseball cards co-founder Richard McWilliam has died
Richard McWilliam was a co-found of Upper Deck trading cards. Thanks to Richard McWilliam, I have about 10 copies of this card. I never opened a pack and found the elusive Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card, but I don’t hold that against you Richard. RIP Mr. McWilliam.
Steeshes.com covers the Fiscal Cliff – Whiskered Cliff with Cliff Burton
Cliff Burton was the bassist for Metallica before he died in 1986. If Cliff were alive today, I’d imagine he’d have written several Op-Ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal on the insustainability of our government to function for the people with the callous and irresponsible way in which they conduct business. Or maybe he’d just spit in John Boehner’s face. Either way, ya know?
Bob Ross – The Joy of Steeshing
On this day in 1942, quick-painter and beard/steeshman Bob Ross was born. He loved painting mountain ranges because he said they were like “Earth’s mustaches.”
Bob died in 1995 at the age of 52. Rest in Steesh.
Ernie Hudson
My goal was to get a picture of Andy Griffith with a mustache and I ended up with this. It appears that he stayed cleanly shaven his whole life. We don’t have to agree that it is the best look, but he had the right to do so. Then I searched for a picture of Don Knotts with a mustache. I figured his sidekick could stand in for him on this sad day. No go either. I didn’t want to add a mustache to a picture of Andy because it seems rude to do to someone who has just passed away, and I didn’t want to upset his ghost. That made me think of Ghostbusters, and so here we are.
Rest in Peace Andy Griffith. Don’t be a disruptive ghost and you’ll do fine in the afterlife.
Henry Hill – Inspiration for Goodfellas
RIP Henry Hill, inspiration for Ray Liotta’s character in Goodfellas. Henry passed away yesterday of natural causes. Hill was a Lucchese crime family associate before becoming an FBI informant when faced with possible corn-holing jail-time due to a narcotics charge.
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes has passed away at the age of 83. He wrote “The Old Gringo” which I’m assuming is less racist than it sounds.
Michael Vale
Michael Vale is most famous for playing Fred in Dunkin Donuts commercials where he would say, “Time to make the donuts.” Now people say that all the time. Sometimes to refer to having to use the bathroom! What a world we live in.
Michael died due to complications of diabetes on Christmas Eve, 2005. I hope Dunkin Donuts is happy.
Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch aka MCA, a founding member of the Beastie Boys, has died after a few year battle with cancer (according to TMZ).
Junior Seau
Not a good day to be featured on this site. First a basketball playing criminal, then a sports writing scammer, and now a retired football player found dead.
Junior Seau has been found dead in his home where police are investigating a shooting (suicide?). This is according to Yahoo, who is siting TMZ. I think everyone just sites TMZ in case they get one wrong, in hopes of some one suing them for everything they have and getting their terrible show taken off the air.
My cousin thinks he was shot to death for over-celebrating every tackle like he just won the super bowl. I don’t know how he lives with himself.
//
//
Richard Pryor
.
Great comedian, great Steesh.
