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.
• Barney
seal
• Junior Bridgeman
basketballer and billionaire
• Larry Buendorf
saved Gerald Ford from Squeaky Fromme
• Enos Clark
forgotten person
• Joshua Daywalt
forgotten person
• Pete Dewell
rock worker
• Thomas J. Drozdick
forgotten person
• Kevin Drum
blogger, Washington Monthly
• John Feinstein
author, A Season on the Brink
• Simon Fisher-Becker
actor, Doctor Who
• Flo Fox
blind photographer
• Athol Fugard
anti-Apartheid playwright
• Raúl M Grijalva
US Congressman (D-Arizona)
• H Hale Harvey III
abortion hero
• Mark Klein
whistleblower
• Tommy McClendon
forgotten person
• Selma Miriam
feminist restaurateur, Bloodroot
• Joe Nickell
a skeptic’s skeptic
• Rick Riff
forgotten person
• Art Schallock
baseballer, New York Yankees
• Maria Grazia Spina
actress, Hercules Against the Mongols
• Marceline “Maman” Tawembi
forgotten person
• Maisie Trollette
drag queen
• Seng Kok “Sam” Ung
Phnom Penh Noodle House
• Charles Whelan
forgotten person
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.