The Lugubrious Year In Review: A Pictorial

There will be many other pictorials of the kind -one of which is here- and there will be numerous more eulogies scattered all about the web; but here, at the Lugubrious Blog, we insist upon doing things differently right - and doing them in our own special way as well...

Hence, without further ado - the lugubrious pictorial depicting those that we miss the most, feel the most for, here, on the TLB Prime Network, begins...

Edward Walter Spulnik

aka Killer Kowalski

BEIJING (AFP) -
A Chinese man who received a rare face transplant in 2006 has died,

his doctor and a government official confirmed Saturday,

highlighting the risks of a recent groundbreaking US operation.

Li Guoxing, 32, died in July at his rural home in rugged southwestern China

after forsaking immune-system drugs in favor of herbal medicine,

surgeon Guo Shuzhong told AFP. (...)

Debby The Polar Bear

Anne Pressly
(Photos: KATV)

Paul

Adventurer Steve Fossett
was finally confirmed to be dead
a mere few weeks ago...

Suzanne Tamim -
killed by the jealousy of others...

Mumba The Gorilla

Guillaume Depardieu -
le fils de Gérard
et fils spirituel de Dewaere...

Nancy Cooper

Janica Milot

Majel Barrett

L'animatrice et chroniqueuse Valérie Letarte

meurt du cancer à 47 ans

(Photo: LCN)

Le 30 décembre 2008 - 22:00

L'animatrice et chroniqueuse Valérie Letarte
meurt du cancer à 47 ans
MONTREAL _ L'animatrice et chroniqueuse Valérie Letarte est décédée, dimanche, à l'âge de 47 ans, a rapporté Radio-Canada. Elle était atteinte d'un cancer.
Mme Letarte a animé les émissions "275-allô" et "Ados-radio" de 2003 à 2007 à la Première Chaîne de Radio-Canada. Elle a aussi été chroniqueuse culturelle à l'émission "C'est bien meilleur le matin", à la même chaîne, de 1998 a 2003.
Elle a également travaillé pour les stations CKOI-FM, CFGL-FM, CKVL-AM et FM 93. A la télévision, elle a été chroniqueuse à l'émission "Salut Bonjour" à TVA et au "Grand Journal" de TQS.
Mme Letarte laisse dans le deuil son fils Pavel.

Isaac Hayes

Samuel P. Huntington

Olga Lepeshinkaya

Eartha Kitt

Bettie Page

Diane Hébert

And then there were those
deemed "lucky" enough to have died
and COME BACK...



To all of them
and the many others
who left our "dwindling" numbers
in 2008...
R.I.P.

You got off this ride
just before it got any rougher
- lucky ones...!

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December Dirges

DIRGE
Definition:
a funeral hymn or mournful speech
Example:
Melville wrote the poem A DIRGE for James McPherson for the funeral of a Union general who was killed in 1864.
Synonyms:
knell, requiem




Dreadful Shadows Lyrics
Dirge Lyrics

In a month that saw a certain politician say that the solution for the poor and their lack of vital nutrients on their table lies in hunting and cooking RATS - and this odd statement comes simultaneously with the revelation that *some* poor have indeed gone as far as to consider their guinea pigs as Christmas time feast... (R.I.P., piggies)
In a bitterly cold month, in which one sees the harshness of one's climate more than clearly - depending where you live, exactly, on the ol' mudball...
In a month tailor-made for mourning; we have seen irrefutable evidence, once again, that BEFORE DEATH as before Our Creator... Our Maker... Our Lord Of lords... we are all equal.

The only difference being that *that* Mr. Rogers right there is able to have long and costly dirges sung to his memory - his estate and his heirs will not have it any other way.
Others cannot even convince their priests to have the bells chime in their wake...!
This discrepancy is only of THIS WORLD though - not from the next one, to which we are all headed, sometimes head first; and on equal footing indeed.

Of those crossing over to the Other Side this month - on the ethereal even-playing field - I'll delineate Majel Barrett, Janica Milot, Sam Bottoms (who is not going to the bottom), Hubert "Pit" Martin (who is not going to the pit), Bettie Page, Eartha Kitt and many more illuminaries as well as numerous more of the nameless, unidentified, non-celebrity kind...

Remember, this December and evermore: no matter what amounts of notoriety one has garnered on this side, it is all as nothing for the Other Side - the one that counts for all of Eternity...

Thus, score points while here THE RIGHT WAY - capisce?

In This Life...


- Chantal Kreviazuk Lyrics




Chantal Kreviazuk Lyrics
God Made Me Lyrics


And in lieu of a decent dirge...



Dark Lotus Lyrics
I Wanna Die Lyrics



Subhumans Lyrics
I Don%27t Wanna Die Lyrics



New Radicals Lyrics
I Don%27t Wanna Die Anymore Lyrics

2 to 1 in favor of living on...!


Have a luminous 2009 -
not a lugubrious one.

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Twenty Years Ago - Today

"I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say 'This is the way you do it,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way....So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes...But that's always after the fact--as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me." - Roy Kelton Orbison

His birth name was Roy Kelton Orbison - and he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame one short year before his passing; in 1987 hence.
Date of Birth: 4/23/1936
Place of Birth: Vernon, TX
Date of Death: 12/06/1988
Place of Death: Hendersonville, TN