Sad Tribute

[Shellback Squid]

[question everything]

1. Artful and clever

[housecat]

2. Impressive visual!

[burrowowl]

3. RIP all!

[nightwing1240]

5. Indeed, RIP to all

[nightwing1240]

4. Oh wow

Sidney Poitier passed this year? Damn, the movies To Sir With Love and In The Heat of the Night are favorites of mine.

[Javaman]

6. ...

[nightwing1240]

7. Perfect, thank you :)

[Bluepinky]

43. Love this song, thanks!

[Liberal In Texas]

8. That is wow inducing.

I kind of don't understand some of the things, like the penis, lower right corner.

[KS Toronado]

18. That is strange

plus what's Charlie Brown doing in there, he's immortal but his creator Charles Schulz wasn't. And the
little blue twitter bird, might be dying but isn't dead yet.

[Xavier Breath]

26. Peter Robbins, who was the first actor to voice Charlie Brown

died in 2022. He was only 65 and it was a suicide.

[mitch96]

19. ? The dildo died in 2022?....nt

[bluesbassman]

30. Apparently it was replaced by the butt plug.

According to MTG at any rate.

[KS Toronado]

44. LOL

[calimary]

50. Nope. Still alive and lying his ass off in Mar-a-Lago.

[electric_blue68]

20. I guessed right looked up to be sure .. here you go....

I remember reading about them back in the day

From the LA Times

Cynthia Albritton, who as Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully channeled a teenage desire to lose her virginity to a rock star into a lifelong project creating casts of their erect penises, died on Thursday in her native Chicago after an undisclosed illness, according to a press release. She was 74.

Starting in 1968, Albritton began compiling a vast collection of phalluses enabled by private sessions with rockers including Jimi Hendrix, the MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys and dozens more.

“It was the ’60s. I was a virgin. I was horny. It was the dawn of the sexual revolution,” Albritton said in 2000 in an interview at the first show of her work. “I wanted to fall in love with a British rock star.”


Carrying a black suitcase tagged with an oval “Plaster Casters of Chicago” label, the artist arrived backstage at concerts or at hotels with a ready-made pitch and the tools to make it happen. She was soon being profiled alongside other so-called groupies Pamela Des Barres, Judith Peters (“Miss Mercy”) and Christine Frka (“Miss Christine”) in Rolling Stone."

[Liberal In Texas]

24. Thanks for doing the research LOL

I knew somebody here would.

I guess they didn't have a picture of her, just the "casting."

[electric_blue68]

28. YW 😄 I just had to know bc it was the only thing I could think of as to why that was there! 😄😄

And how fast it showed up from my memories. 😄
I didn't even see it, till you mentioned it. 😄👍

[90-percent]

47. all members of frank zappa's all girl group

The Girls together outrageously. (The GTO's)

She was soon being profiled alongside other so-called groupies Pamela Des Barres, Judith Peters (“Miss Mercy”) and Christine Frka (“Miss Christine”) in Rolling Stone."

from the late 60's, most resided in Zappa's first house in the Hollywood Hills, The "Log Cabin" once owned perhaps by Tom Mix. He moved to another home on Woodrow Wilson Drive, where he lived until his death around 1993. Subsequently sold to Lady Gaga a few decades later, which she flipped for a profit.

-90% Jimmy

[Upthevibe]

9. Kick. N/T

[Marthe48]

10. Rock and Roll Heaven comes to mind

[Katcat]

11. You know they've got a helluva band!

[calimary]

12. Wow - death gets 'em ALL.

No age, no color, no nationality, no gender, no creed, no level of intellect, nothing escapes.

Kinda humbling, isn’t it.

[Marthe48]

13. No one gets off the planet alive

No Planet B, and other meaningful comments :/

[Auggie]

14. Wonderful montage, very well done

[FakeNoose]

15. So many familiar faces here

Good-bye dear friends ... and thanks for the memories.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Unless I'm missing them, they left out a number of people, too.

What brutal year.

[Martin68]

31. Like thousands of Ukranians.

[riverbendviewgal]

17. Thank you,

So many I know. i would like to sit with a few friends and talk about these people who have gone on to the next dimension. And learn about the ones i don't recognize.

It Is very humbling.

[hermetic]

21. Who is the guy

falling from the airplane?

I like the Twitter bird, although that's not quite dead yet. Severely wounded, though.

[CaptainTruth]

25. I remember reading about a guy who set a parachuting height record.

Don't recall the name but it didn't seem that long ago, 1-2 months ago maybe?

[LudwigPastorius]

37. Could be Tom Rice.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/story/2022-11-18/tom-rice-wwii-d-day-paratrooper-who-continued-to-jump-out-of-planes-dies-at-101

[colorado_ufo]

22. Is Pele in there?

[Abigail_Adams]

29. Yes, Pele is

just above Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid).

[Wingus Dingus]

23. Both George Costanza's mom and Jerry Seinfeld's mom (on the show) died this year?

Looked it up--Both Liz Sheridan and Estelle Harris were 93, both died in April.

[orleans]

27. hard for me to see a lot of these clearly but it looks like owen wilson

up near the top on the left, wearing a blue scarf (from zoolander era?)

he didn't die--so who is the person in the blue scarf?

[LudwigPastorius]

38. British actor Stewart Bevan

He was Dr. Who circa 1973, among other roles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Bevan

[slightlv]

32. There are so many I don't know

there are way too many from my youth represented here. People who were important to me through the ages. As a fat kid, I got teased mercilessly. Some of these people were my "friends" to whom I'd escape when things in real life got too hard to face. They brought their versions of life (Nichelle Nichols, Robbie Coltrane, Donna's father) to a world that, to my teenage or young adult self, was cruel and unforgiving. May they all rest in peace and power.

Even Mikhail... for all his faults, he tried for the best for his nation.

Beyond the sheer "ow, wow" of all the people who've left us, give a sec to the creator of this. I mean, I'm blown away by the sheer creativity and artistry. Amazing!

May 2023 treat us all gently. May those of us who deal with chronic conditions, no matter what our ages, get cut a break in this year and our meds and treatments grow in relation to the symptoms of our condition and disease.

May the U.S. healthcare finally choose 2023 as the year they got serious about joining the rest of the civilized world with Universal Healthcare. And may Women's Healthcare take front stage in all areas... not just Reproductive Health (tho gods know, that is overwhelmingly important). May those of us with autoimmune diseases not be cast aside because there's more money to be made on fancier, more profitable medicines.

Old age, for most of us, is not an era to be entered into lightly -- tho every single one of us will enter it.

And it's probably way too much to ask, but I do hope there's a bridge of some kind to be found between the Right and the Left in this country (and least, those less MAGAT-Y). And we finally put the oligarchs on notice that WE, the People, are taking back our country, for ourselves and OUR prosperity, health, and welfare - not theirs!

[OverBurn]

33. I was so in love with Olivia Newton-John as as a teenager.

[mountain grammy]

34. Amazing picture..

What a year, beginning with the loss of Bob Sagat and ending with Barbara Walters. The death of Eric Boehlert I think hit me the hardest..

[SouthernDem4ever]

35. awesome picture

Has this been done for other years I wonder.

[Renew Deal]

36. There are some really big names on this list. Some are as big as they get.

The Queen of England and Pele are huge by themselves. Barbara Walters is also in GOAT territory. Then there's Angela Lansbury, Meatloaf, Bill Russel, Bob Sagat, Shinzo Abe, Gorbachev, Sidney Poitier, and many more. It's a hell of a list.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

39. wow. kick

[crickets]

40. Chris Barker's 2022 Sgt Pepper tribute to those lost in 2022 has a key.

Thank goodness, because while I recognize many of the faces, just as many are familiar faces with forgotten names or those I just don't recognize and want to know.

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/12/02/sgt-pepper-cover-of-celebs-who-died/

https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/2022-sgt-peppers-tribute-taylor-hawkins-christine-mcvie-olivia-newton-john-takeoff-1235180120/

“I’ve been doing this since 2016. That was the year anyone who was nice or kind or creative or special decided it was time to leave before the bad stuff started,” Barker tells Billboard in an exclusive note about the year we lost Prince and David Bowie, among many others.

Link to tweet

[Shellback Squid]

48. thanks, I found it on Reddit but the creator needed to given credit

[Hermit-The-Prog]

49. key image...

[NJCher]

41. What is this RIP you speak of?

You mean they won't be excoriating Santos, trump, and mccarthy on an iPad all night, listening to music, having their cat walk over their face, getting up about five times because of New Year's fireworks still going off and idiot neighbors still playing music? Getting hot, turning on a fan, readjusting the bed, dropping the pillow on the floor, remembering they forgot to take their pills, dropping the pills on the floor, then looking for them with a flashlight?

They don't get to do that anymore? Is that RIP?

[Polybius]

42. Did Barbara Walters and Pope Benedict XVI make it in there?

They both died during the last few days of 2022.

[BumRushDaShow]

46. It looks like Walters is on the 3rd row from the bottom

on the far left above Angela Lansbury and between Sidney Poitier and Kirstie Alley. I *think* Benedict might be up on the very top row to the right of the image in the area where there is a row of buildings and is under the 2nd one that appears to be collapsing.

[calimary]

45. Making a note about this - so I can find it later.

I was thinking about this “group shot” this morning and trying to remember where I’d seen it.
Answer: right here in DU!