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)
