Posts Tagged R.I.P.

Friend, Sancrist Martin 1975-2011

Posted by mistergroonk in People I Know, People Who Died on January 4, 2011

Just a few hours ago we learned that our friend and Egg Radio comrade took his own life yesterday morning. He was 35.

San, I’m sorry that I didn’t notice your pain and that I wasn’t able to help you through it.

RIP, Sancrist Martin.

I’m gonna miss you.

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Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer ( 1938 – 2010 )

Posted by mistergroonk in People Who Died, Television on August 23, 2010

Last Friday, a legendary Star Gazer passed.

On Friday afternoon Jack Horkheimer, veteran astronomer and naked-eye-astronomy enthusiast, died of “a respiratory ailment” at the age of 72.

He was the executive director of the planetarium at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit, but was most well known for his weekly PBS series. It’s called Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer and he started doing it in 1976.

Look below for his final recorded show for this Labor Day Weekend.
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Harvey Pekar (1939 – 2010)

Posted by mistergroonk in Artist, Comics, People Who Died on July 13, 2010

Harvey Pekar, the irascible writer who spun the mundane details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the comic-book panel could include everyday feelings of anxiety and disappointment as easily as it does the adventures of costumed heroes, has died, The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported. He was 70.

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