The recent death of Peter Tork, the Monkee’s multi-talented comedian/bass player/Topanga’s dad on ‘Boy Meets World’, has hit me harder than I could have expected, and my heart goes out to his family and friends. On the one hand, seventy-seven years is a pretty good run for anyone, but on the other, there’s really no way to prepare for the loss of someone who means that much to you, whether they know it or not. I haven’t been this bothered by a pop culture loss since the day we lost Leonard Nimoy in 2015, leading to today’s mournful-but-respectful query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that the loss of the remaining Monkees will be tough for me, as would/will be any of the surviving Doctors and William Shatner, asking: What pop culture loss has (or do you expect *will* have) the biggest effect on you?
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Prince.
The one that hit me the most profoundly was Jim Henson. From Sesame Street, through The Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal, and The Jim Henson Hour, his works were fundamental and parallel to my life journey. His death was the biggest childhood’s end wake-up call I ever had.
Its either Michael Jackson or Stan Lee. I can already tell that Harrison Ford will be tough pill to swallow.