Dead people — 9/9

bring out your dead,
once weekly, usually on Tuesdays

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.

Dhimitër Anagnosti
film director, The Return of the Dead Army

David Baltimore
smart guy, 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology

Bruce Loose Calderwood
punk rocker, Flipper

Doris Cook
baseballer, Kalamazoo Lassies

Rick Davies
rock’n’roller, Supertramp

Patrick Hemingway
famous person’s son

Davey Johnson
baseballer, Baltimore Orioles

Joseph McNeil
wanted to eat at Woolworth’s

name withheld
forgotten person

Scott Spiegel
filmmaker, Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except

Mort Todd
cartoonist, Cracked

Philippe Vidal-Dumas
TV director, The Garfield Show

Mark Volman
rock’n’roller, The Mothers of Invention

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
author, Out of the House of Life

Previously dead

9/9/2025

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2 responses to “Dead people — 9/9”

  1. eel paradise Avatar
    eel paradise

    Bruce Loose lived around here but never met him,
    he lived on the same land as his mother and her partner, noted attorney
    ED Denson, who died a year ago

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    1. Doug Holland Avatar
      Doug Holland

      I know nothing about the man’s music, but I love the story of singing slow songs at a punk concert. Always, give the people what they don’t want! It’s worked for me, as a rule.

      Reply

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