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 every weekend, until I’m on the list myself.
Thomas Augsberger
Hollywood big-shot, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Ociel Baena
non-binary activist
John Byrne
writer, Tutti Frutti
Luigi Caiola
Broadway producer, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mary Cleave
astronaut, went twice into space
Tim Dorsey
Serge Storms novelist
Elliott Erwitt
witty photographer
Larry Fink
photographer
Herbert Gold
author, Not Dead Yet
Helen Halpin
actress, dancer
Helen Halyard
challenged Shirley Chisholm from the left
Catherine Christer Hennix
math musician, "The Electric Harpsichord"
Geoffrey Holt
mobile home groundskeeper
Stephen G. Jurczyk
NASA administrator
🖕 Henry Kissinger🍸
comic book supervillain, war criminal
Jean Knight
rocker, "Mr. Big Stuff"
Marty Kroft
producer and puppeteer, H.R. Pufnstuf
Aldo Lado
filmmaker, Night Train Murders
Sun Lin
human rights activist
Solomon Littman
Nazi hunter
Shane MacGowan
rocker, The Pogues
Les Maguire
rocker, Gerry and the Pacemakers
Mali
an elephant alone
🖕 Charlie Munger
Berkshire Hathaway billionaire's billionaire
John Nichols
author, The Sterile Cuckoo
Weston Ochse
sci-fi author, May Blood Pave My Way Home
Sandra Day O’Connor
Supreme Court Justice
Laurence Payne
progressive activist
Cecil Sandford
fastest man on two wheels
Johnny Scott
civil rights activist
Elliot Silverstein
moviemaker, The Car, Cat Ballou
Frances Sternhagen
actress, Outland
Sticky Vicky
ping pong balls from her vagina
Bronka Sundstrom
Holocaust survivor, mountain-climber
Vassilis Vassilikos
author, Z
Priit Vesilind
journalist, National Geographic
John Warnock
co-inventor of the Portable Document Format (PDF)
Interesting idea! I hadn't heard about Munger.
Always happy to provide good news! :)