RIP

Checked the website Dead or Alive and found I'd missed a few people:

J.G. Ballard
mostly thought of as an SF writer but was not easily categorized

Marilyn Chambers (and you know who she is)

Billy Mays (just this morning) -- I won't exactly "miss" him but he was ubiquitous.

Obits

Well, the last 24 hours were a good time to die, I gues.

Ed McMahon
Farah Fawcett
Michael Jackson

Obits of Note

Bea Arthur.
Was she great or what?! I've liked her for years, and was even called "Maude" by a long-term boyfriend. I felt greatly complimented.

Koko Taylor
A great blues singer. I saw her live in Asheville sometime in the 1990s at the Cherry St. nightclub I can't remember the name of. She was a tiny woman with a big voice.

Also, old "Kung Fu" himself, David Carradine, was found dead in his hotel room closet in Bangkok. In the closet. Tied up for sex games of one kind or another. Probably another case of autoeroticism gone wrong. So tacky.