AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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.

   
• Suchir Balaji
whistleblower

• Wolfgang Becker
film director, Good Bye, Lenin!     (archived link)

• David Bonderman
private equity fucker     (archived link)

• Michael Brewer
rock'n'roller, "One Toke Over the Line"     (archived link)

• Robert Brooks
in county jail     (archived link)

• Diane Delano
actress, Northern Exposure     (archived link)

• Sugar Pie DeSanto
R&B singer, "Rock Me Baby"

• Bob “Slim” Dunlap
rock'n'roller, the Replacements     (archived link)

• Rayful Edmond
cocaine entrepreneur     (archived link)

• Eli Fletcher a/k/a Keith Thornhill
Guitar Man     (archived link)

• Meena Ganesh
actress, Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njanum     (archived link)

• Nikki Giovanni
poet, activist

• Gerd Heidemann
journalist who got it wrong     (archived link)

• Bridgette Hempstead
Cierra Sisters

• Rickey Henderson
baseballer, Oakland A's     (archived link)

• Zakir Hussain
tabla     (archived link)

• identity withheld pending notification of next of kin
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Linwood Jones
in county jail     (archived link)

• Wesley Joyner
in county jail     (archived link)

• Cheung Kan-Shing
forgotten person     (archived link)

• David Mallett
singer-songwriter, "The Garden Song"     (archived link)

• Troy Masters
journalist, activist     (archived link)

• Matthew McCarthy
in county jail     (archived link)

• Lorenzo Melendez
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Eric Nelson
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Marisa Paredes
actress, Like Death Warmed Up

• Hassau Powell
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Janis Scott
bus lady     (archived link)

• Sir Lady Java
illegal drag queen     (archived link)

• Stacy
forgotten person

• Timothy Scott Towne
in county jail     (archived link)

• Dick Van Arsdale
basketballer, Phoenix Suns     (archived link)

   
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