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.

   
• Gloria Arellanes
co-founder of East LA Barrio Free Clinic (AltaMed)

• Jack Bond
filmmaker, It Couldn’t Happen Here

• Stanley Booth
rock’n’roll writer

• Robert Brooks
murdered by prison guards

• Burt
crocodile

• Ruth Butler
researched and wrote about muses

• Cathy Cade
photographer, Off Our Backs

• Perry Dahl
WWII fighter pilot

• Charles Dolan
Home Box Office

• Steven Englander
ABC No Rio

• Joanne Erickson
forgotten person

• Shane Estopinal and George Kaucher
forgotten people

• Art Evans
actor, A Soldier’s Story

• Woody Fraser
producer, The Dick Cavett Show

• Thomas Gaither
The Friendship Nine

• Sophie Hediger
snowboarder

• Olivia Hussey
actress, Romeo and Juliet (1965)

• Bill Labov
sociolinguistics

• Markham Maes a/k/a Shitty Kitten
artist

• Gordon Mah Ung
host, The Full Nerd

• Barry N. Malzberg
sci-fi short stories

• Dana McLaughlin
in county jail

• Hudson Meek
actor, Baby Driver

• Berrien Moore III
all the science I don’t understand

• Clara Palmer
in county jail

• Richard Perry
rock’n’roll producer, “You’re So Vain”

• Joanne Pierce Misko
nun and fed

• Jack Planck
in county jail

• Steven P. Riley
in county jail

• Rita, or Mary
forgotten person

• Joe Rosato
jailed journalist

• John Rose
activist, author, The Myths of Zionism

• Anthony Russo
bad cop

• Charles Shyer
filmmaker, Private Benjamin

• Osamu Suzuki
married the boss’s daughter

• Yoshio Taniguchi
architect

• George Thompson
in county jail

• unidentified woman
forgotten person

• George Zebrowski
author, Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts

   
Previously dead