a once-weekly roundup,
usually on Saturdays

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.
   

Edward Anders
cosmochemist & Holocaust investigator

Jack Betts
actor, Office Space

Kenyatta Saki Booze
forgotten person

Lou Christie
rock’n’roller, “Lightnin’ Strikes”

William Cran
documentary maker, Frontline

Masuiyama Daishirō
sumo

Blake Farenthold
just another Republican asshole

Lynn Hamilton
actress, Sanford and Son

Kazuo “Kaz” Kajimura
Yoshi’s

Christopher Kinder
activist

Gunilla Knutson
“Take it off. Take it all off.”

William Langewiesche
journalist

name withheld
forgotten person

Mark Peploe
screenwriter, Little Buddha

Gailard Sartain
actor, Ernest Saves Christmas

Frederick W Smith
Founder of Federal Express

Ron Taylor
baseballer, 1969 New York Mets

Cavin Yarbrough
rock’n’roller, “Don’t Stop the Music”

Last week’s dead people

6/22/2025

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