RIP - to the great, great Mad Dog, Jim Mandich.

"And Marino proves he's a freak!" - my all time fave Jim "MadDog" Mandich call, 95 shoot-out vs. the Pats , balcony doors open, in my first apt. Game on TV, Jim on the Radio. As 'Strokin' played him out, Jim once said, "In the annals of pop music, you've got the Beatles, you've got Bach, you've got Beethoven... and you've got Clarance Carter"

- I'd stay up to the sports wrap up after the new, just so i could see him bite his lip on the 'Ask the Maddog' segment, that smile like the cat that ate the canary. The way he's say, "Lambeau Field, Pro Footballs Valhalla, Chardonay Sippers, Green Lizards, Never Better Baby, Never Better." That man could make my day, with just the tone of his voice. RIP to a real man, a true original and a great guy. Go on Jim, roll your windows down baby.

Bobby Robinson (1917-2011): An Unreleased History

Bobby Robinson (1917-2011): An Unreleased History

RIP to Bobby Robinson. Below for Music, "the Lime to the lemmon, the lemmon to the lime"
The Link Above for a great OBIT from Dan Charnas author of The Big Payback.

RIP to the pin man - Louis Mendez Sr.

Click on the photo for the obit from the Herald - we will miss you amigo.

RIP Frank Frazetta - pure beauty.

Art, Power, Beauty, Big Time Sensuality, Heroism, Bravery, Muscle. R.I.P. to an inspiration.

Iz the Wiz

In the 1970s and ’80s, chances were good that anyone traveling the New York subways rode at least once in a car emblazoned with “Iz the Wiz.” Cryptic but euphonious, often abbreviated to the ultraminimal Iz, the signature could be seen all over the subway system: fat capital letters spray-painted on a door, below a window, across an entire car or even along the full length of a train.

Iz the Wiz was a legend among graffiti artists, by almost all accounts “the longest-reigning all-city king in N.Y.C. history,” as the graffiti Web site at149st.com puts it. In other words, Iz put his name, or tag, on subway cars running on every line in the system more times than any other artist.

THE ABOVE IS AN EXCERPT FROM a NY Times Obit by William Grimes, mourning Iz. R.I.P. Wiz. Read the rest here.

A Pair of Aces. R.I.P.

We mourned the loss of two of Latin Music's greats privately in March and April but here are their obits. Ralphie Mercado, and Manny Oquendo.E.P.D. and thank you for the music. By Douglas Martin & A.E. Velez for the NY Times

R.I.P. Beauty

It is difficult to imagine a woman as beautiful, in all her girl-next-door earnestness and sexuality than Bettie Page.

Her NY Times obit features well-researched info containing a great deal of perspective on our Bettie. We urge reading it. Here's a toast to one big ñ crush. We'll always love you Bettie. Here.

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