I heard on the news this evening that Michael Bolton has been battling glioblastoma since late 2023, and its treatment has left him physically and mentally disabled.
Yes, I had heard he was battling brain cancer and that’s how he made my list. I wish him health and healing, and am only here to pick up any points he may drop if the worst happens. I’m helpful like that.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Funny or Die video where they spoof Office Space using the actual Michael Bolton to play the David Herman role from the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM&ab_channel=FunnyOrDie
Manolo “el del Bombo”, that is, Manolo, the one with the big drum, supporter of the Spanish football team in ten World Cups, eight Europe Cups and countless qualifying and friendly games, has died aged 76.
Julia Parsons, one of the few surviving WWII Navy codebreakers, dies at 104.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/julia-parsons-dead.html
The world’s (formerly) oldest person has left us.
Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of turning 117, her religious congregation said.
She would have turned 117 on May 27. According to LongeviQuest, the world’s oldest person is now Ethel Caterham, a 115-year-old British woman.
Link to ABC News
Jill “I Kissed a Girl” Sobule died in a house fire, age 66.
Logically, this must happen frequently throughout the year.
Not necessarily in any given year. It won’t happen again until Ethel Caterham dies, which might be tomorrow, or it might not happen for a couple of years.
And we all move up a spot!
Okay, that juxtaposition looked strange.
Unless we’re way old, we’re moving tens of thousands of spots up the list every day. Googling tells me ~150,000 people die every day. Most of them are probably younger than me (age 71) but a sizable minority probably aren’t.
Didn’t it though! Certainly gave me a brief WTF moment. Reminds me of signs like “someone dies in a traffic accident every 13 minutes” and I think, “I’d sure hate to be that someone,” trapped in a perpetual cycle of being reincarnated after a traffic accident only to die in another one 13 minutes later.
Yes, I’m weird. I hang out here, don’t I?
Ruth Buzzi is gone at 88.
I have both followed and conversed with her for years on Facebook, and I just heard from both her husband and Dr. Demento that she died yesterday-Ruth Buzzi, age 88.
Did she believe in the Hereafter?
Goddammit. Naturally, the one year I leave her off my list.
Dude, it was you that was keeping her alive?!?
She was the coolest person born on my birthday. Well, the coolest other person.