2 posts tagged “obituaries”

Steve Gilliard has passed away.

I first encountered Steve on the long-gone Netslaves mailing list where debate was usually snarky, lively and quite often cantankerous.

Depending on my mood of the day, he was either brilliant and always on-target or a paranoid Manhattanite who needed to get off the island now and then to gain a little perspective. I'm certain the truth was somewhere in between those two points, but whatever the case may have been, the conversation was always worth participating in.

I am truly sorry to hear that he is gone.

From SFGate:

Bobby "Boris" Pickett, whose Boris Karloff impersonation was immortalized on the novelty hit song "Monster Mash," which has become a Halloween perennial, has died. He was 69.

Mr. Pickett, a longtime resident of Santa Monica, died Wednesday of leukemia at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, said his manager, Stuart Hersh.

" 'Monster Mash' is the biggest Halloween song of all time. The song was spooky but nonthreatening, just a natural -- it had a good beat and was a great, fun idea," said Barret Hansen, better known as syndicated radio host Dr. Demento.

Full obituary: Bobby Pickett