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 once weekly, until I’m on the list myself.
Roger Allers
artist, Tron, and director, The Lion King
Sal Buscema
artist, The Incredible Hulk
Ty Curtis
bike rider
Peter H. Duesberg
smart guy who went wingnut
Sly Dunbar
rock’n’reggae drummer, Sly and Robbie
Angella Ferguson
sickle cell anemia research
Thomas Fogarty
saved my dad’s life
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
filmmaker, The Man Who Stole the Sun
Johnny Legend
rockabilly bastard
James “Mingo” Lewis
percussionist and drummer, Santana
Bryan Loren
songwriter, “Do the Bartman”
Fitim Makashi
actor, Rrugicat që kërkonin diell
Geoff Mason
covered tragic Olympics, 1972
Dan McQuade
helped blow the lid off Bill Cosby
Tim Milhollen
forgotten person
names withheld
2nd Amendment
Billy Bass Nelson
rock’n’roller, Funkadelic
Catherine O’Hara
actress, Home Alone
Virginia Oliver
lobster lady
Shirley Raines
helped the homeless
James Sallis
author, Drive
Demond Wilson
actor, Sanford and Son
• Greg Abbott • Mark Alford • Samuel Alito • Marc Andreessen • Sam Altman • Brian Babin • Steve Ballmer • Ben Bankas • Steve Bannon • William Barr • Amy Coney Barrett • Joel Berry • Scott Bessent • Jeff Bezos • Lauren Boebert • Pamela Jo Bondi • Emil Bove • Greg Bovino • Sergey Brin • Vern Buchanan • George W Bush • Doug Burgum • Steven Calabresi • Tucker Carlson • Elaine Chao • Jonathan Choe • Susan Collins • James Comer • Tim Cook • Tom Cotton • Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz • Henry Cuellar • Paul Dans • Michael Dell • Ron DeSantis • Betsy DeVos • Sean Duffy • David Ellison • Larry Ellison • John Fetterman • Randy Fine • Tulsi Gabbard • Newt Gingrich • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez • Jonah Goldberg • Neil Gorsuch • Franklin Graham • Lindsey Graham • Chuck Grassley • Marjorie Taylor Greene • Nikki Haley • Sean Hannity • Josh Hawley • Pete Hegseth • Mike Huckabee • Sarah Huckabee Sanders • Laura Ingraham • Hakeem Jeffries • Mike Johnson • Ron Johnson • Alex Jones • Jim Jordan • Alex Karp • Brett Kavanaugh • Robert F Kennedy Jr • Charles Koch • Julia Koch • David Kustoff • Leonard Leo • Jared Kushner • Jake Lang • Karoline Leavitt • Corey Lewandowski • Joe Lonsdale • Howard Lutnick • Ed Martin • Ghislaine Maxwell • Mitch McConnell • John McEntee • Linda McMahon • Vince McMahon • Mark Meadows • Katie Miller • Stephen Miller • Steven Mnuchin • Lisa Murkowski • Elon Musk • Mick Mulvaney • Peter Navarro • Benjamin Netanyahu • Kristi Noem •
Andy Ogles • James O’Keefe • Larry Page • Kash Patel • Rand Paul • Ken Paxton • Sonny Perdue • Tony Perkins • Mike Pompeo • Sidney Powell • Vladimir Putin • Vivek Ramaswamy • John Ratcliffe • John Roberts • Joe Rogan • Karl Rove • Chip Roy • Marco Rubio • Rick Santorum • Aaron Schock • Chuck Schumer • Jeff Sessions • Ken Shamrock • Kyrsten Sinema • Jason Smith • Roger Stone • Peter Thiel • Clarence Thomas • Rex Tillerson • Donald Trump • Donald Trump Jr • Ivanka Trump • Melania Trump • Tommy Tuberville • JD Vance • Russell Vought • Alice Walton • Rob Walton • Jim Walton • Lukas Walton • Bari Weiss • Mark Zuckerberg
• and any Secret Police wearing a mask •
“I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
—Clarence Darrow
2/4/2026
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