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.

• Jeff Baena
filmmaker, Life After Beth

• Arthur Bankston II
in county jail

• Aaron Brown
hosted 9/11/2001 on CNN

• Jimmy Carter
39th US President

• Ducks
cat

• Woody Fraser
hands-on TV producer

• Terry Flowers
in county jail

• Arista Hunt
in county jail

• Debrina Kawam
forgotten person

• Adam Lafferty
in county jail

• Richard Lambert
in county jail

• Linda Lavin
actress, Alice

• Joseph Lee
in county jail

• Ember Leona
forgotten person

• David Lodge
author, Small World

• Charlie Maxwell
baseballer, Detroit Tigers

• Raymond Mills
in county jail

• Jeff Moore
activist

• name withheld, 21
in county jail

• name withheld, 47
in county jail

• Wayne Osmond
Osmond

• Bobby Ray Patton
in county jail

• Lenny Randle
baseballer, Seattle Mariners

• Judy Rodriguez
Jane Doe

• Shigeko Sasamori
peace activist

• Anthony Thomas
in county jail

• Warren Upton
survived Pearl Harbor

• Brenton Wood
rock’n’roller, “Oogum Boogum Song”

• Virgil Wood
activist

• Mason Andrew Yancy
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.

   
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