After just the other day acknowledging the passing of Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly and Elwy Yost, I see the news all over the innernets today is that troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has checked out. News reports say her death is unexplained but the public can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that it was related to her much publicized heavy-duty drug and alcohol use. RIP
27th Street 
Yeah, I’m sure I was one of the thousands who could see this coming. That’s not a “told you so” comment, either. Addiction is a hideous monster. It really had a death grip on her. It is a huge loss to the music world – I have to think that she’d have gone on to create wonderful stuff if she could have gotten clean.
Thanks for the link to that article, azahar – the woman sure seemed doomed.
The many idiotic and insensitive “tweets” yesterday really annoyed me.
Nice article here…
Razor sharp, Winehouse changed the music scene for ever
wasn’t on Twitter at all yesterday and managed to miss most of the commentary.