Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits for 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.
• Arthur Bates
cigarettes and methadone
• George Bell
tall
• Nadia Cassini
actress, Starcrash
• David Steven Cohen
writer, Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Émilie Dequenne
actress, Rosetta
• George Foreman
grill
• Scott Anthony Gastal
a tortured, troubled, and difficult life
• Robert Ginna Jr
"There Is a Case for Interplanetary Saucers"
• Wings Hauser
actor, Tough Guys Don't Dance
• Josiah Hooker
2nd Amendment
• Kanzi
bright bonobo
• Jeffrey Bruce Klein
co-founder, Mother Jones
• Gyorgy Kun
Josef Mengele's experiments
• Jack Lilley
actor & stunts, Little House on the Prairie
• Kilmer McCully
homocysteine in heart disease
• Charles Medawar
consumer activist
• Ralph Munro
curb cutaways for wheelchairs
• Tuppy Owens
activist, The Sex Maniac’s Diary
• Hugues Oyarzabal
surfer
• Felice Picano
author, The Joy of Gay Sex
• Samantha Richardson
forgotten person
• Lenny Schultz
comedian
• David Sellers
architect of Prickly Mountain
• L. J. Smith
author, The Vampire Diaries
• Larry Tamblyn
rock'n'roller, The Standells
• Guy Thomas
sci-fi fan on wheels
• Slick Watts
basketballer, Seattle SuperSonics
• Jesse Colin Young
rock'n'roller, the Youngbloods
• Anaya Zachary
2nd Amendment
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.
