Whitney Houston has died

[ghost]

She is dead at age 48.  The cause of death is, so far, unknown.  I suppose the only shocking thing about this is that Bobby didn't go first.   

According to her official website, Houston, who struggled with addiction problems over the years, sold more than 170 million albums, singles and videos over her career.

That's a lot of albums. 

[Paelos]

My guess is it will be heart failure due to crack usage.

[Furiously]

My wife just told me this and I immediately asked her, "Drugs or Bobby?"

Then I felt bad.

[angry.bob]

Don't feel bad, the only other reasonable option would have been a vehicle collision. She had a nice voice, even recently. We saw her here at Blossom right before her meltdown with some tickets a friend gave us. She was obviusly fucked up on something and kept dragging her kid on stage.

Anyway, locking yourself in a bathroom with pounds of crack and a pile of dildos and refusing to come out even for food is a wake up call that you need to get rid of everyone in your life except your kids and start fresh. She kept them all around and went right back to being fucked up.

It's no suprise and no tragedy that she died. Fuck her, she made her choices and they were blatantly bad ones.

[ghost]

What's this about a pile of dildos?   

[Sjofn]

It's no suprise and no tragedy that she died. Fucker her, she made her choices and they were blatantly bad ones.

Because you know who is really great at looking at their lives and making great decisions? Drug addicts! 

[Reg]

Jesus Bob. Does your douchebag routine have to extend outside Politics?

[ghost]

Here are some of the last photos of Whitney.  I wonder what was getting ready to come out of her mouth in this one 

[Ginaz]

Here are some of the last photos of Whitney.  I wonder what was getting ready to come out of her mouth in this one  

All those dildos she had locked up with her in the bathroom?

Crack.  Its a hellva drug.

[angry.bob]

Jesus Bob. Does your douchebag routine have to extend outside Politics?

Apparently it does, since it's not a "routine". If saying that it's not sad or suprising that a crack addict died an early death after an over the top, decades long crack binge makes me a douchebag, then I'm a douchebag. Boohoo. If you want read about how it's a tragedy that the "queen of Pop" died like Micheal Jackson there's plenty of places to do it. Frankly no one's given a shit about her or her music for a decade.

Anyway, the dildos. Whitney would barricade herself in the bathroom for days while she would cook cocaine into crack, do the crack, and hammer herself with an huge collection of vibrators and dildos. Apparently it wasn't always sexual, it was also about trying to clear her clogged bowels. Pictures of her bathroom midway through a post binge cleanup are available on the internet.

[Paelos]

The truly depressing part about rich unrepentant addicts dying is usually the endless parade of enablers who then get fat off their estates.

[Ghambit]

My pilot friend(s) used to fly her and Bobby around in the jet.  I'll just say all the rumors about them were/are true.   

[Riggswolfe]

While Bob can be a bit much in this case he is totally right. It's sad she wasted her life and her talent but her death shocks no one. I'll only be shocked if it turns out to be totally natural causes and not an OD or in someway related to her shitty lifestyle.

[Ingmar]

it's not sad or suprising

Not surprising? Sure, I think just about everyone saw this coming. Not sad? Strenuously disagree.

[Tannhauser]

Classy as always Bob. 

RIP Whitney, you were one of the great voices of recording history.

[ghost]

it's not sad or suprising

Not surprising? Sure, I think just about everyone saw this coming. Not sad? Strenuously disagree.

This is the truth.  While I don't like the kind of music that she made, she was one of the best talents to ever grace the earth.  She had a wonderful career cut short due to drug addiction. 

[Ratman_tf]

Pictures of her bathroom midway through a post binge cleanup are available on the internet.

*thinks*

Nah, I don't need to punish myself that badly.

[Cyrrex]

Tragic waste of talent.  She was so amazing in her heyday.  I can't say I feel too terrible, though...she is probably at peace for the first time in a couple decades.

Who will ever forget the Star Spangled Banner singing she did right after the first Gulf War started?  There will never be a better rendition of that song.  If you've never heard it, it is worth a look.

[Nebu]

Tragic waste of talent.  She was so amazing in her heyday. 

This. 

There's a very fine line between (artistic) genius and insanity. 

[Cyrrex]

There may be no line at all, TBH.

[Yegolev]

Saturday night I was at the Variety Playhouse to see TMBG.  Between the opener (turns out it was Jonathan Coulton) and TMBG, I found a restroom.  There was a guy standing there who claimed "next" when he saw that I had determined I was looking at a restroom.  We had the usual chat including "The line is longer at the other one".  He goes in, later comes out and on the way out he stops to say "Whitney Houston died!"  My immediate thought was "In this restroom?!"

[Segoris]

I did the same thing Furiously did, and still don't feel bad. RIP because she was incredibly talented, but I don't respect people that make such shitty life choices

Saturday night I was at the Variety Playhouse to see TMBG.  Between the opener (turns out it was Jonathan Coulton) and TMBG, I found a restroom.  There was a guy standing there who claimed "next" when he saw that I had determined I was looking at a restroom.  We had the usual chat including "The line is longer at the other one".  He goes in, later comes out and on the way out he stops to say "Whitney Houston died!"  My immediate thought was "In this restroom?!"

That sucks that you found some dbag that broke the men's room unspoken rules. My boss does that and I've lost count how many times I've explained to him that there's no talking and keep eyes forward at all times.

[Baldrake]

I don't respect people that make such shitty life choices

There but for the grace of God go I, no?

[WayAbvPar]

The more important question is how was TBMG? Would love to see them if/when they come to Seattle.

[Ironwood]

I don't respect people that make such shitty life choices

There but for the grace of God go I, no?

No.  Not in this instance.

Don't ask me to have sympathy here or with Winehouse or with Jackson.

If you want to piss away gifts, I'm not going to accept the 'Hard Luck' line.  There are tons of good people getting fucked over by real bad luck out there.

[Paelos]

Yep, drug addiction because you can't cope with success isn't hard luck, nor do you get pity.

Because in the end, there were thousands of opportunities to walk away. From the drugs or the life.

[ghost]

I do have a little sympathy for her, because crack is a horrible drug and very tough to quit for some people.  I think it's tough to say "well, you're rich so fuck you" or "you made a stupid choice" so fuck you.  I've worked in enough drug clinics to feel bad for these people.  It's hard to imagine being an absolute slave to this sort of addiction. 

[HaemishM]

I didn't care much about her music while she was alive. In fact, it annoyed the piss out of me. I can acknowledge that she was talented even if her music wasn't to my tastes. But other than the death of another human, likely through really bad decisions, I can't get too broken up about it. I'm more upset that we'll get a week of the news media trying to squeeze every bit of air time out of the death while completely ignoring the glee with which they reported on her public fuckups.

[Ingmar]

There's a lot of misunderstanding of addiction going on here it seems to me. Yes, bad choices were made, mostly right at the beginning (and the wonderful Mr. Brown was probably involved in helping her along to those.) Once addiction kicks in, for a lot of people choice really doesn't have a role at all.

[Mrbloodworth]

Not like she could not afford the help.

Anyway, sad she died, but most people expected it.

[Sky]

Thanks, Whitney. Thanks for a generation of over-singing tarts. Thanks for churning out shitty dance tracks with no lasting value. Thanks for making your name by over-singing a great Dolly tune.

At least Etta James got a nod at the Grammy's. Kids, use your spotify or whatnot to pull up Etta James' Rock the House. Get a lesson in where Janis got it from.

[01101010]

I didn't care much about her music while she was alive. In fact, it annoyed the piss out of me. I can acknowledge that she was talented even if her music wasn't to my tastes. But other than the death of another human, likely through really bad decisions, I can't get too broken up about it. I'm more upset that we'll get a week of the news media trying to squeeze every bit of air time out of the death while completely ignoring the glee with which they reported on her public fuckups.

Not to mention the buckets of money the record companies have been waiting to make on her collection once she passed on.

And yes, Etta James' > Whitney . . . but most of Etta's generation is either dead or can't remember how to wipe themselves. Whitney is much fresher on the pyre.

[Yegolev]

The more important question is how was TBMG? Would love to see them if/when they come to Seattle.

Great, great show, small venue, yet again I was on the balcony but I'm OK with it.  It was the Lincoln tour and they played about five songs from that album.   The opener comes out and plays the theme song from Codemonkeys, but it wasn't until he started playing Still Alive that I figured out who he was.  He was pretty good, actually, and I thought that before I knew who it was but after the Codemonkeys song so it's probably a legit opinion.  Altogether probably one of the best shows I have seen.

[HaemishM]

There's a lot of misunderstanding of addiction going on here it seems to me. Yes, bad choices were made, mostly right at the beginning (and the wonderful Mr. Brown was probably involved in helping her along to those.) Once addiction kicks in, for a lot of people choice really doesn't have a role at all.

I understand full well that addiction melts your brain so that rational choices are no longer possible without a journey to the darkest parts of your own psyche and sometimes not even then. From what I understand, her death may be a result of taking too many combinations of prescription pills that caused her to drown in the bathtub (and maybe mixing them with alcohol). See the thing is... if you spend a decade wrecked off your head and become a public laughing stock in the music industry (where idiotic behavior like hers is par for the course, she set a high bar), then manage to get yourself clean? You ought to be able to see that the people around you who ENABLED ALL THAT STUPIDITY WHILE THEY PROFITED aren't good people to have around in your new clean and sober living.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for rich people killing themselves with drugs. There are people on the streets with no fucking money and no home who manage to unfuck their lives. What's her excuse?

[ghost]

There's a lot of misunderstanding of addiction going on here it seems to me. Yes, bad choices were made, mostly right at the beginning (and the wonderful Mr. Brown was probably involved in helping her along to those.) Once addiction kicks in, for a lot of people choice really doesn't have a role at all.

I understand full well that addiction melts your brain so that rational choices are no longer possible without a journey to the darkest parts of your own psyche and sometimes not even then. From what I understand, her death may be a result of taking too many combinations of prescription pills that caused her to drown in the bathtub (and maybe mixing them with alcohol). See the thing is... if you spend a decade wrecked off your head and become a public laughing stock in the music industry (where idiotic behavior like hers is par for the course, she set a high bar), then manage to get yourself clean? You ought to be able to see that the people around you who ENABLED ALL THAT STUPIDITY WHILE THEY PROFITED aren't good people to have around in your new clean and sober living.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for rich people killing themselves with drugs. There are people on the streets with no fucking money and no home who manage to unfuck their lives. What's her excuse?

Those folks are a rarity.  If anything, maybe this can help kids see how shitty crack/addiction can turn your life and maybe get a few to not go that route.