Rest in peace, Leonard Cohen. He was 82 years old when he passed. [Dlisted]
Advice for parents with children who are the victims of racist bullying. [Jezebel]
What is Valerian: City of a Thousand Planets? [LaineyGossip]
Natalie Portman looks shellshocked, like everybody else. [Go Fug Yourself]
Stephen Colbert told Donald Trump to go f—k himself, basically. [Pajiba]
Here’s someone named Karla Azevedo in a bikini. [Moe Jackson]
Michelle Duggar thinks Jinger is a “great follower.” [Starcasm]
Reese Witherspoon, this looks uncomfortable. [Celebslam]
Kandi Burruss is adjusting to having a new baby. [Reality Tea]
Is it just me or is Kaley Cuoco wearing a crazy amount of makeup? [Popoholic]
Someone is doing a “Feminist Donald Trump” Twitter account. [The Blemish]
I’m so sad right now.. I am such a big fan of his and I actually cried when I found out about his passing last night. I’ve been listening and singing his songs .. I’m so glad I got to him in concert a few years ago.
NorthernGirl, I’m with you on that. I often play his album “The Essential Leonard Cohen,” and if you don’t have it I recommend you get it just to add some enduring comfort to the loss. It’s got all his greatest works.
Strange, just a few months ago I gave my husband a list of the ten songs I would like played at my wake when I croak, and two of them are by Leonard Cohen: “Hallelujah” and “Bird on a Wire.”
RIP, Leonard Cohen, who gave us so very much.
I cried too. I love him so much and am devastated by his passing. But his writing and music will live on!
I’m still too numb about the crazy racism that has been unleashed in the US this week (seriously, WTF America?!!!), but when I can feel again this is going to hurt. Leonard Cohen was my favourite singer when I was an angsty 90s teen and I always dreamed of being one of his back up singers. The world will miss him a lot. 2016 needs to end already.
NorthernGirl, I too had the chance to see Leonard Cohen in concert a few years back. I just remember him starting “Hallelujah”, and in like 3 seconds being reduced to a sobbing heap. Fellow concert attendees who had been strangers up to that point all joined together in a weepy hug, and it was the most beautifully cathartic experience in my life. I even have a tattoo of a bird on a wire in honor of what a huge impact his music had on my life.
So help me, if Glen Campbell dies this year, I won’t be ae to handle it. (He’s now in hospice care. 😭) On top of everything else? Oy.
At least he’ll be spared a Trump presidency. So sad. Go read his letter to Mary Ann if you’re a fan of his! It’s beautiful. We’ll miss him. I cried too.
R.I.P. Leonard. Best singer songwriter ever.
2016 is seriously trying to break us. RIP to this beautiful poetic giant.
Yes boo 2016
Does anyone know if he died from a disease or something. I did read a few months back him being quoted as saying he was ready to die. Just wondering if anyone knows?. I always thought his voice got better with age. For some reason his raspy voice was more appealing.
For some reason i had it in my head he wasn’t going to be with us long…
Faves:
Beautiful Losers (book)
Suzanne
Bird on a Wire
Everybody knows
Hallelujah
Check out Tower of Song, a gorgeous tribute done a bunch of years ago.
What is this, the year that art dies?
Famous Blue Raincoat
Screw You 2016!
I’ve had That’s No Way To Say Goodbye in my head since last night ..
My fav is his song 1000 kisses deep.
Sisters of Mercy
I can’t make the hills
So long Marianne
Famous Blue raincoat
That don’t make it junk
Hallelujah
Dance me to the end of love
He died of being 82. At some point, everyone has to die. He was very aware of that and not afraid of it.
An old friend of Mr Cohen and the founder of Leonard Cohen Files webpage told in a Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that the singer had an accident at home on Sunday which led to his death.
An article I read last night, just after the news hit, mentioned medical issues during the recording of You Want It Darker, but it didn’t specify the issues.
I bought the album the week it came out and felt a sense of mortality permeating it.
Omg what is happening this year. I’m so extremely saddened to hear this news. Leonard Cohen has given me company through all my heartbreaks and lonely days and wine soaked days and he has given me so much through his music and his beautiful lyrics and that special gravelly voice of his. The world is gonna miss you Mr. Cohen. You gave us so much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Rest in peace, beautiful soul.
As if this year didn’t suck enough already! Like Bowie – Cohen just released a new amazing album and now he’s gone? – I can’t believe it. He was everything – my all time favorite artist. His songs helped me cope with so may things in life, I’m just devastated. May he rest in peace.
I’ve always thought that he was as beloved as Bowie or Dylan everywhere, but while his death is the top issue here in the Polish media, it’s barely mentioned (on not mentioned at all) on most American websites I checked. I’ve read before that he was way more popular here than in the USA and even his own Canada, but I assumed it was a lie. He was just so undescribably amazing. How is the whole world not mourning his loss?
I suspect the American media is still trying to recover from Dark Wednesday.
If it helps at all, he’s been top of the news across tv and radio all day here in the UK. He was and always has been incredibly beloved, respected and now mourned, my side of the pond.
It made headlines in France today. He was/still is hugely respected over here too.
Here in Croatia too.
I’m guessing a lot of the world is mourning his loss. A lot of Americans are still numb from the results of Tuesday’s election, and if anything would be appropriate background music, it would be any song written by Leonard Cohen, sung by him, Judy Collins, the late Jeff Buckley, k.d. lang, and/or any of the other talented musicians who sang his soulful songs of love and woe.
The last time we saw you, you looked so much older, your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder……hey that’s no way to say goodbye….sometimes listening to his music was like getting hit over the head with a Tennessee William’s play, he got you in touch with your feelings with his words. I will always listen to him when I’m feeling a certain way. Oh there is no other Leonard Cohen, not even close.
Everything you said, yes. I’m so sad.
I was so sad to read this yesterday. What a crappy week.
There was a child named Bernadette
I heard the story long ago
She saw the Queen of Heaven once
And kept the vision in her soul
No one believed what she had seen
No one believed what she had heard
But there were sorrows to be healed
And mercy, mercy in this world
So very prescient…..RIP Leonard.
You just gave me the goosies.
Very talented man. He will be missed.
Robert Vaughan has died too.
The man from U.N.C.L.E., he was so cool. It’s been said that people near the end of their lives try to hold on to some specific date, like a birthday, anniversary, etc. It seems at the end of the year we lose many celebrities. Just lost two good ones.
Saw that. RIP Napoleon Solo.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
After the US election this kept running through my head.
Then last night…. Oof. I’ve been weeping on and off ever since. This year has been heartbreaking in so many ways. Bowie, Prince, Eco, and now Leonard Cohen. It feels like poetry and beauty and grace are all fleeing the planet.
Listening to Come Healing on a loop and looking for bells… (sorry, I’m feeling rather maudlin today).
Same here. Exactly the same here. I even sent the lyrics to a friend two days ago, as a means of solace.
And then this morning, after I heard of his passing, I listened to it over and over again, and I actually cried. Leonard Cohen was one of those people whom you will, in all probability, never meet in person, and who touch your life in a profound way. Listening to Leonard Cohen helped me through some rough times. I’m afraid Kris Kristofferson is next, as far as the aforementioned people go, who touch your life from afar and help you through it, for me personally.
For me, I’m afraid it might be Joni Mitchell.
2016 is the devil.
How much loss can we endure? Bowie, Prince, Rickman, my own dear dad.
Trump, Brexit, Syria.
Even Brangelina.
I can’t.
RIP Leonard Cohen.
Dance Me to the End of Love.
RIP Leonard. Your words will stay in my heart, your songs on my lips, sweet as oranges.
Glad Cohen passed on Monday so that he didn’t get to see the world in such a horrible state with The Orange One. But he left a big hole in my heart. Been weeping on and off.
Suzanne and Hallelujah remain 2 of my all time favorite songs. So many cherished other songs, as well, a few which are both gritty and surreal. I have always listened to them as reprieve or sometimes just temporary shelter and intermittent absolution from the world. I don’t believe in heaven, but Cohen’s words were as close to celestial as to earth. RIP.
I looked for you in everyone/ And they called me on that too
I lived alone but I was only/ Coming back to you
This adds to the terrible sense of sadness and loss already here this week. Prayers for his family, he lived with his daughter and one got the the impression he’d probably been ill a while. RIP.
Leonard Cohen has given so much to this world through his poetry and song. May his creative thoughtful journey continue in some other realm.
Gee – seems like I have only just stopped crying and drinking and now here I go again. So sad. Saw Leonard Cohen in concert in Melbourne a few years ago and it was profound. Rest in peace.
Devastated. RIP lovely soul and thank you for the music.
Beautiful tributes here that made me cry Thankyou all for your beautiful words.
Like many here I saw Leonard Cohen when he went back on the road to earn a living (after his manager took his money!). Although the reasons he toured again were bad, the concerts were amazing and I’m forever grateful I got to see him live in Australia. It’s the only concert I’ve ever cried in and for a heathen like me the closest I got to having a religious experience stone cold sober. RIP Leonard you beautiful poet.
Canada mourns the passing of another of it’s great.
Thank you Mr. Cohen for all of the beautiful words.
I’m so disappointed that Stephen Colbert uses the word “p***y” as an insult …
And, omg, a link to Reese Witherspoon cameltoe pics? Come on.
Me too! I was really surprised. Didn’t seem like he was using it ironically.
What’s up with no post Sunday?
I know, Uncle Vernon would approve.
I forgot it’s Saturday.
Oh, Kaiser…you just HAVE to post something on that SNL cold open, with Kate MacKinnon’s Hillary playing the piano and singing Hallelujah!
Not ashamed to say it, I cried.
#StillWithHer
#PantsuitNation