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
