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)

 
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