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RIP Peaches Geldof

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Apr 7, 2014.

  1. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    You should Google Geldof, Monday and San Diego sometime.
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Used to? Sarcasm, I hope, since his final novel is published today.

    Also, here is a nice essay by a flyfishing guide for Matthieson and Jim Harrison from Men's Journal last November. A couple of old men joking about sex and writing and probably thinking about death:

    http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/fly-fishing-confidential-20131127
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Do you recognize the name L'Wren Scott?

    The New York Times tweeted out: "Peaches Geldof Dies at Age 25" and put this headline on the AP story: "Peaches Geldof Dies Unexpectedly at Age 25"

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/04/07/world/europe/ap-eu-britain-obit-peaches-geldof.html

    The Chicago Tribune goes even further: "Peaches Geldof, media and fashion personality, dead at 25"

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-peaches-geldof-dead-20140407,0,7902320.story

    Neither refer to her as Bob Geldof's daughter in the headline, though he is, of course, mentioned in the first sentence of each article.

    And, it's newsworthy to me because she's Bob's daughter. But, she had a name. (Even if it was a kind of dumb name.)
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    And guys, I made the "Monday" reference in the original post.

    I've always loved that song, and know its history.

    This is my favorite version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDAR_DMmYY
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    She joins Paul Walker on the list of people I'd never heard of until their deaths blew up Facebook and Twitter.
     
  6. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Either we'll agree to disagree, or I need to redefine my version of "Famous in her own right".

    When the very first words in your obit mention your dad, I'd say that is the exact opposite of "Famous in her own right", but what do I know?
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Same would go for L'Wren Scott then, right?
     
  8. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    I really enjoyed his Killing Mr. Watson trilogy. Read it when I was younger and it stuck with me. Sad to think that his generation of writers who started out in the 40s and 50s (Styron, Mailer, Plimpton et al.) have mostly left the scene by now.

    At least he managed to get a nice profile of himself published in the Times magazine literally the weekend he passed away.
     
  9. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    You don't live in England.

    She got the best name of the bunch, even if it goes off the rails with Honeyblossom as a middle name.

    Her siblings: Pixie, Fifi Trixibelle, and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily.
     
  10. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Would have been better if she'd gone to jail. Then when she got out, we could have said, "Peaches come from a can. They were put there by a man."
     
  11. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Indeed, he helped launch Paris Review.
     
  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    So was Peaches the Geldolf daughter that Simple Minds' Jim Kerr raised as his own?
     
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