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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
Bruce Bastian
WordPerfect

John Everett Benson
tomb carver

Rick Bevel
forgotten man

Johnny Boone
Cornbread Mafia

Mike Brumley
baseballer, Seattle Mariners

Buzz Cason
songwriter, "Everlasting Love"

James Chance
saxman

Ed Denson
good guy

Evans Evans
actress, Bonnie and Clyde

Maya Pines Froomkin
journalist & mom

Willie Mays
said 'hey'

Tamayo Perry
surfer

Paul Pressler
Christian child rapist

Donald Sutherland
actor, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Anthea Sylbert
costume designer, Carnal Knowledge

T, a/k/a Vega
good guy

unnamed
forgotten man

Ben Vautier
artist who loved his wife

   
Previously dead

"We weren't looking at this from a public health perspective," said a senior military officer involved in the program. "We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud."

Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
William Anders
astronaut

Ezra Bozeman
49 years in prison

Brother Marquis
rock'n'roller, 2 Live Crew

Clarence Cameron
owlman

Jeannette Charles
not the queen of England

Lynn Conway
very large-scale integrated circuits

Alan Curry
fellow worker

Christophe Deloire
Reporters Without Borders

Ian Gelder
actor, Torchwood

Mark James
songwriter, "Hooked on a Feeling"

Albert Knight Jr
forgotten man

James Lawson Jr
activist

Tony Lo Bianco
actor, The Honeymoon Killers

Elizabeth MacRae
actress, The Conversation

Ed Mann
rock'n'roller, The Band From Utopia

Amarr Murphy-Paine
high school kid

Janis Paige
actress, Silk Stockings

Barry Romo
activist

William Russell
actor, Doctor Who

Edward Ryan
closeted gay man

Edward C. Stone
Voyager missions

Chet Walker
basketballer, Philadelphia 76ers

Jerry West
basketballer, Los Angeles Lakers

   
Previously dead

Why would people elect such imbeciles to a school board? How can these officials, and the imbeciles who voted for them, not be embarrassed and ashamed?