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.
• John Boos
in county jail (archived link)
• Melvin Chavez
shot and killed (archived link)
• Frances Conley
neurosurgeon without penis (archived link)
• Santino Contreras
shot and killed
• Frank Coppa
squealer (archived link)
• Paul Cripple
rock'n'roller, Reagan Youth (archived link)
• Clive Everton
snooker journalist
• Andrea Nicole Garcia
in county jail (archived link)
• Nick Gravenites
rock'n'roller, music for The Trip (archived link)
• John Green
shot and killed (archived link)
• Fredric Jameson
author, Postmodernism (archived link)
• Minhaj Jamshidi
shot and killed (archived link)
• Carrie Marie Kwok
shot and killed (archived link)
• William Lucy
"I am a man" (archived link)
• Ricardo Martinez Olguin
shot and killed (archived link)
• Malik Mebane
kid who played football (archived link)
• Dick Moss
baseball's free agency (archived link)
• Coby Palmer
activist (archived link)
• Anthony Rivera
shot and killed (archived link)
• Jordan Alvin Simon
shot and killed (archived link)
• Maggie Smith
actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (archived link)
• Michael Valentine
accomplice to vehicular mass murder (archived link)
• Marcellus Williams
probably not guilty
