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.

   
• John Boos
in county jail     (archived link)

• Melvin Chavez
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Frances Conley
neurosurgeon without penis     (archived link)

• Santino Contreras
shot and killed

• Frank Coppa
squealer     (archived link)

• Paul Cripple
rock’n’roller, Reagan Youth     (archived link)

• Clive Everton
snooker journalist

• Andrea Nicole Garcia
in county jail     (archived link)

• Nick Gravenites
rock’n’roller, music for The Trip     (archived link)

• John Green
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Fredric Jameson
author, Postmodernism     (archived link)

• Minhaj Jamshidi
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Carrie Marie Kwok
shot and killed     (archived link)

• William Lucy
“I am a man”     (archived link)

• Ricardo Martinez Olguin
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Malik Mebane
kid who played football     (archived link)

• Dick Moss
baseball’s free agency     (archived link)

• Coby Palmer
activist     (archived link)

• Anthony Rivera
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Jordan Alvin Simon
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Maggie Smith
actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie     (archived link)

• Michael Valentine
accomplice to vehicular mass murder     (archived link)

• Marcellus Williams
probably not guilty

   
Previously dead