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.
• Natasha Alexenko
activist (archived link)
• Frank Auerbach
artist (archived link)
• Kenneth Bronstein
atheist
• Bruce Degen
artist, The Magic School Bus
• Lou Donaldson
sax man (archived link)
• Janey Godley
comedian (archived link)
• Roy Haynes
drummer (archived link)
• Ella Jenkins
Singalong with Ella
• James Ledbetter
media critic, Village Voice (archived link)
• Trevor Sorbie
Dorothy Hamill’s hairstylist (archived link)
• Paul Stephenson
activist (archived link)
• Grant Ujifusa
reparations for Japanese-Americans (archived link)
• Baltazar Ushca
ice harvester (archived link)
• Andrew Young
forgotten person (archived link)