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.
Akebono
American sumo
Patti Astor
actress, Wild Style
Kate Coleman
journalist who made enemies
Jerry Grote
baseballer, New York Mets
Lyn Hejinian
poet and professor
Clarence “Frogman” Henry
rock’n’roller, “Ain’t Got No Home”
Peter Higgs
structure of atoms and matter
Bruce Kessler
TV director, The Monkees
Robert MacNeil
PBS News Hour
Hella Pick
foreign correspondent
Lynne Reid Banks
author, The L-Shaped Room
Trina Robbins
artist, It Ain’t Me, Babe
Adrian Schiller
actor, Doctor Who
O.J. Simpson
footballer, longtime grieving widow
John Sinclair
jazz poet
C.J. Snare
rock’n’roller, FireHouse
Sara Tafuri
actress, City of Women
Arthur Taylor
activist for forgotten people
Dan Wallin
sound engineer, Spartacus
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Seeing Arthur Taylor on this list hurts. He was an amazing beacon of his community
Absolutely.
