Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, including 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.
• Black Bart
wrestler
• Christopher Benjamin
actor, Doctor Who
• Rashaud Boaze
2nd Amendment
• Howard Buten
clown, novelist, activist
• Bill Byrge
actor, Ernest Saves Christmas
• Leslie Charleson
actress, Day of the Dolphin
• Barbara Clegg
writer, Doctor Who
• Chartara Courtney
2nd Amendment
• Phyllis Dalton
costume designer, Lawrence of Arabia
• Carol Downer
menstrual extraction
• Joanne Marie Erickson
forgotten person
• Jay and Joshua Gonzales
2nd Amendment
• Richard Hays
God doesn’t hate gays?
• Arista Hunt
in county jail
• Claude Jarman Jr
San Francisco Film Society
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
author, Farewell to Manzanar
• Danielle Johnson
forgotten person
• Rick Kuhn
crooked basketballer
• David Lynch
filmmaker, Eraserhead
• Robert Machray
actor, Cheers
• name withheld, 15
2nd Amendment
• name withheld, 22
in county jail transport bus
• name withheld, 27
forgotten person
• name withheld, 30-40
forgotten person
• name withheld, 53
forgotten person
• name withheld
in county jail
• name withheld
in county jail
• name withheld
forgotten person
• name withheld
in county jail
• name withheld
forgotten person
• name withheld
forgotten person
• Joshua Moser
in county jail
• Trayvon Ocain
in county jail
• Joan Plowright
actress, Equus
• Benny Rawlins
forgotten person
• Noah Scurry
2nd Amendment
• Tony Slattery
actor, The Crying Game
• J. Fraser Stoddart
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2016
• Jeannot Szwarc
film director, Somewhere in Time
• Cornelius Taylor
forgotten person
• Lynne Taylor-Corbett
choreographer, Footloose
• Bob Uecker
play-by-play, Milwaukee Brewers
• Shoji Ueda
cinematographer, Kurasowa’s Dreams
• Gus Williams
basketballer, Seattle SuperSonics
• Nancy Wohlforth
activist
• Floyd Zacharie
in county jail
Note: When reading news coverage from any corporate-owned source — a newspaper, TV station or network, etc — the facts are generally factual, but the slant favors the rich and powerful.