Friday, December 30, 2016

Good Bye 2016

This year, by far, has been one of the most interesting years that I have ever lived through.  Being that it was my 50th year on this planet is only part of the strange, interesting, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes insane year that was 2016.

One of the things that struck me about 2016 was all the celebrity deaths, I mean right down to today, the 29th of December!  This year in just the music industry alone we lost; Glenn Frey, David Bowie, George Michael, Vanity, Paul Kantner, Maurice White, Keith Emerson, Frank Sinatra Jr, Merle Haggard, Prince, Nick Menza, Christina Grimmie (hay no hating she was really popular and a great person!) Matt Roberts, Leonard Cohen.  I know there was many more that Im probably forgetting.

What about news and movie actors and actresses, we lost Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, Ricky Harris, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Alan Thicke, Ron Glass, Florence Henderson, Robert Vaughn, Tommy Ford, Curtis Hanson, Jon Polito, Gene Wilder, Steven Hill, John Mc Laughlin, Barry Jenner, David Huddleson, Garry Marshall, Michael cimino, Alan Young, Morley Safer, Doris Roberts, Patty Duke, Garry Shandling, Alan Rickman, Pat Harrington Jr, Abe Vigoda.

Then there were the Literary and Political, people we lost;  Antonin Scalia, Harper Lee, George Kennedy, Pat Conroy, Nancy Reagan, Rob Ford, Jim Harrison, Elie Wiesel, Mark Takai, Rev. Tim LaHaye, Phyllis Schlafly, Greta Zimmer Friedman, Edward Albee, W.R. Winsella, Shimon Perez, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Janet Reno, Gwen Ifill, Fidel Castro,  E.R Braithwaite, Richard Adams.

And wait there is more!!!  Cant forget Sports and the Sciences; Craig Sager, John Glenn, Arnold Palmer, Jose Fernandez, Pat Summitt, Buddy Ryan, Gordie Howe, Mohammad Ali, Chyna, Joe Garagiola, Bob Ebeling, Lee Reherman, Tony Burton, Edgar Mitchell...

Oh my lawd, the list just keeps going on, its like 2016 wiped out the fucking 1980's!!!  WTF!

Well I was going to go somewhere else with this post but Fuck it, I'm depressed now...

Good Riddance 2016...

Oh yea....One more death, technically it happened in 2016

But doesnt take place till 2017...

The Death of the USA as we know it....