Not so Fun Friday: In Memorium
Ozzy Osbourne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Hulk Hogan, Chuck Mangione, and Felix Baumgartner. We lost a lost of famous people this week.
Everyone knows who Ozzy is. Even if you don’t like heavy metal, pop culture has solidly imbedded him in our lives. Malcolm on the other hand might not ring a bell until you realize he played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show.
Hulk Hogan? Yeah, you know him as the wrestler and more recently as a supporter of a certain political figure, but he’ll always be the Hulkster to me.
As for Chuck Mangione, unless you are a avid music fan you may not know that he is a famous jazz trumpeter.
Felix Baumgartner? He might be a bit more obscure to the public. He came onto my radar when he took a balloon up to the edge of space (~120 000 feet) and…
Jumped.
You might think that’s what killed him, but no. He made it. But the famous daredevil BASE jumper did die in a paragliding accident.
What I’ve learned about getting older (other than don’t jump out of a space capsule at 120 000 feet) is that the longer you live, the more people you know or are aware of will pass.
Here is some smooth jazz to lighten up the post.
-Leon
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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