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.
Jo Anne Bland
“It’s the screams I remember the most.”
Bobby J Brown
actor, The Wire
Bryan Campbell
forgotten person
Robert Carradine
Carradine, Revenge of the Nerds
Lauren Chapin
actress, Father Knows Best and School Bus Diaries
Willie Colón
salsa musician who became right-wing idiot
Pete Dello
rock’n’roller, Honeybus
Sidney Dorsey
sheriff and murderer
Bruce Froemming
baseball umpire
Jeff Galloway
run-walk-run Olympian
Len Garry
rock’n’roller, The Quarrymen
Santino Gonzalez
2nd Amendment
Rob Grant
writer and co-creator of Red Dwarf
Bo Gritz
soldier and nincompoop
Edward Hoagland
author, Walking the Dead Diamond River
Ali Khamenei
Iranian Revolution & President
Susan Leeman
substance P and other assorted peptides
Maria Lewis
2nd Amendment
Colman McCarthy
Washington Post pundit & activist
El Mencho
capitalist
name withheld
forgotten person
Zoey Price
2nd Amendment
Neil Sedaka
rock’n’roller, “Breaking Up is Hard to Do”
Susan Sheehan
author, *Is There No Place on Earth for Me?”
Dan Simmons
author, Hyperion
Antonio Tejero
Spanish fascist who attempted military coup
Slava Tsukerman
screenwriter, Liquid Sky
Ken Wiley
host, The Art of Jazz
“I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
—Clarence Darrow
3/3/2026
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