John D.F. Black, scriptwriter on many series and creator of ST:TOS episode* The Naked Time*, has died. He was 85.
Philip Bosco, a that guy from film and tv at age 88.
No takers for Black or Bosco, but Tommy Billington died on his 60th birthday, good for a 0 points for GIGObuster, as he was on an early list, but not the final list…
Former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Jael Strauss loses battle to breast cancer at 34.
She was on my list of 2019 prospects.
Pete Shelley, lead sing for The Buzzcocks-dead at age 63.
MLB players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in car crash yesterday. Valbuena was 33. Castillo was 37.
And I am utterly astonished this hadn’t been reported yet.
That wasn’t just a car crash, that was murder!:eek::mad:
I mentioned it in the “MLB Hot Stove” thread, but neglected to mention it here.
Former NFL football star Isiah Robertson dies in a car wreck in Texas at age 69.
Subject of the movie Melvin And Howard, Melvin Dummar, dead at age 74.
Which one was he?
The recently dead one.
NYT notes the passing of Evelyn Berezin, the person who developed the first Word Processor, which helped liberate secretaries and the typ8ng pool from the drudgery of their work, eventually liberating them from their jobs entirely.
tap tap tap 7 points tap tap ding
One in a long line of Infernal Devices advertised as cutting work in half, but actually designed to double the workload.
Are you kidding? Of all the inventions and technological advances that have become widely available during my lifetime, if I had to keep just one of them, it would be the word processor. I’d rather do without the Internet, if push came to shove. In my case, not only has it made it easy to write competently, it’s made it possible in the first place.
It was almost painful to try to write back then, when I desperately wanted to be able to get thoughts down on paper, but with a manual typewriter or pen on paper, my fingers would soon be several paragraphs behind my thoughts, and the whole thing would just collapse. When I get to heaven, I’m gonna give her a big hug, you bet. 
You’ll pry my backspace key from my cold dead hands. I am NOT going back to typewriters!
Sondra Locke has died of breast and bone cancer at the age of 74.
Odd. Took 6 weeks to become public.
Jazz singer Nancy Wilson has died.
I should have 25 points (19 for John McCain, 6 for George H.W. Bush).
NY Times confirmation on Nancy Wilson
(Not the one from Heart)