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.

   
• Christian Angulo     (Archived link)
kid

• Richard Aspinwall
math teacher

• Simeon Bihesi     (Archived link)
forgotten person

• James Darren     (Archived link)
Gidget’s Moondoggie

• Linda Deutch     (Archived link)
journalist

• David Egle
in county jail

• Aysenur Eygi
activist

• Chance Gainer
football player

• Christopher Garcia     (Archived link)
football player

• Eric Gilliland     (Archived link)
writer, Roseanne

• Warren Curtis Grant
kid

• Nicholas Paul Grubb
“Pinnacle Man”

• Aamonte Hadley     (Archived link)
in county jail

• Cristina Irimie     (Archived link)
math teacher

• Will Jennings     (Archived link)
songwriter, “My Heart Will Go On”

• Rachel Johnson
in county jail

• Sérgio Mendes
bossa nova

• Margaret Miller Johnson
forgotten person

• Mason Schermerhorn     (Archived link)
kid

• Screamin’ Scott Simon     (Archived link)
rock’n’roller, Sha Na Na

• Brian Trueman
Danger Mouse

• George Washington
in county jail

• Howard Ziehm
porn pioneer

   
Previously dead