“It can be a bit of a loner’s business all this doodling” jokes cartoonist Jim Cogan. “We’re just sitting at home in our studios. At least a festival gets us out to look at each other.”
Flooring Installer Among Those Killed in Wisconsin Flooring Installer Among Those Killed in Wisconsin Haywood, WS, November 23 Among those gunned down and killed this past Sunday afternoon in the shooting rampage in the north woods of Wisconsin was Mark Roidt, 28, a hardwood flooring installer who was employed at Burnell s Decor in Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
Roidt was part of a group of more than a dozen hunters staying in lodges on wooded property near the town of Meteor in northwest Wisconsin. The gathering was an annual tradition that marked the opening weekend of Wisconsin s deer-hunting season.
The authorities identified the others who were killed in the incident as Robert Crotteau, 42, and his son, Joey, 20; Al Laski, 43; and Jessica Willers, 27.
Colm Weadick makes no secret of his hero worship. He greets visitors to his Arklow home wearing a Phil Lynott tee-shirt, the great man s extravagant Afro hair a contrast to his own tight-shorn locks. Inside the house, the sitting room is festooned with pictures. Lynott on the Ha penny Bridge. Lynott photographed sharing a stage with Rory Gallagher. Lynott cartoons, Lynott posters, Lynott letters. He was a genius at song writing, says Colm simply when asked to explain the appeal, his one great regret being that he never saw Philo in live action before death came calling on January 4 in 1986. There is music in Colm s family. Uncle Joe played trombone in the Red Seven showband. And Duff McKagan, once bassist with hard rockers Guns n Roses, is his mother Marie s fourth cousin.