The Great Beyond

OK, everybody.  Stop dying.  Now.

Fred Cusick, voice of the Bruins — dead from cancer, age 90.  When I was a mere cubicle, me and Pa Bureau gathered around the set and watched hockey.  And Fred was there with us.  For those behind the Chowdah Curtain, he was hockey’s version of Walter Cronkite — no joke.

I learned a while back that a paralegal (since departed to greener pastures) was from New Hampshaah.  He had a Bruins tattoo on his arm.  So I played a little word association.  I said, “Fred Cusick.”  And he said instantaneously — “SCORE!!”  (Examples in Youtube clip below.)  Everybody in New England would have that come to mind just as quickly.

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Busy day in the obituary department.

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary Dead at 72 [TPM]

Our inner 7-year-old weeps.

Henry Gibson dies at 73; original cast member of ‘Laugh-In’ [LA Times]

Our favorite? Donnie Darko.

Patrick Swayze Dies After Long Battle with Cancer [KTLA]

It was a product of a different era, really.  Yet the fact remains that Reading Rainbow is no more.  But don’t take my word for it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs

The Lion in Winter.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy is dead [Boston Globe]

Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77, After Cancer Battle [WaPo]

Edward Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies [NYT]

And that's the way it was.

Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies [NYT]

blogenfreude adds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sWmD6NvMY