Death Impends

If she dies while I'm still hosting the DDP, I'm so using this scene from her Columbo ep as the image headliner: I'd be a bit surprised if I write her obit though, despite her grand age.

I removed the ban on the IP that I think was the root of your issue. It was one where an asterisk was used after the first five digits so that would've banned a wide range of IPs. Try again.

There was no ban on you. Possible that your IP overlapped with one that we banned in the past?

I'll just discretely sneak him into the 2023 LotM since it's more or less historical record. Whereas if he were picked this year he'd go on the 2024 LotL.

In most cases I'd like for Tories to STFU ASAP. But every time Truss is in the news is so hilarious I don't think I could get tired of it if I tried.

Small world. I've seen her name at the bargain book kiosk at my local grocery store, and thought "wasn't she one of those past DDP cancer writers"! Probably me thinking of Sophie Sabbage or Sonia Kinsella (though the latter wasn't an author).

I remember at one of those free book dumps in middle school George Burns's autobiography was there and I took it and read it because I was just getting really into centenarians. Definitely one of my Sulu-iest sentences ever. Weird you'd find George Burns's autobiography there in hindsight!

Now that the weather's finally ticking up I'm feeling less lazy again

Picked in the DDP for the first and only time in 2021.

Finally corralled up the update, just making sure no recent LotL/LotM names slipped through the cracks?

I think it helps a lot that the double sides are so long ago, that it kind of sorts itself out. Can’t Help Falling In Love justly endures and Rock-A-Hula Baby is justly forgotten, so we all just agreed to vote based off the former. If Rock-A-Hula Baby was equally culturally enduring while not being very good then it might've been more of a dilemma.

I've been playing it for years

George Schappell was trans, Lori wasn't, and Spade ran a trans theme team that year.

2022 looked like it was set to be 2011 bad when we were sitting on four hits for almost all summer. Then there were ten hits condensed into a little over four months. Plenty can happen with much of the year to go.

One of my deadpooling mascots in recent years. 50s New Orleans R&B was a treasure trove for WTF they didn't die in 1995 picks not too long ago, like Lloyd Price and Huey Piano Smith. But now they're all dead.