Fugee Hit
 

Holy crap. I read all of her books when I was 10-11. I had no idea that she was still alive, or that she was that old. I am a sucky former angel of death.

Steve Fossett
 

Steve Fossett
 

I don't buy it. I think he's stuck on an island in the south Pacific which a bunch of survivors from Oceanic 815.

Steve Fossett
 

I can't believe and guy with that much money and that much experience flying various crafts didn't have any emergency plan.

And sadly, 19 year old hockey dude, Mickey Renaud, died.
I don't know much about hockey, but man.

Slave weeps
 

William F. Buckley, Jr.

(I could have sworn I had him, but maybe I gave up--I should have figured with the Dems poised to retake the White House his heart would give out)

Slave weeps
 

Slave weeps indeed, as a nation of ideologues mourns

http://www.dochemp.com/images21/raysflag.jpg

Vroom, vroom, vro...
 

Slave weeps
 

I weep with you, dear. To the tunes of another lost soul, Jeff Healey. RIP 3/1/08.
http://www.jeffhealeyband.com/webima....HellToPay.jpg

For LessinSF: Porn King Dies
 

Paul Raymond, the UK porn king, croaked.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ill/article.do

Wizard, your life force is running out.
 

Gary Gygax, dead at 69. Surprisingly, he is survived by a wife and six children, which puts him on the leaderboard for number of times a D&D player has done sex to another person.

Wizard, your life force is running out.
 

I will wear my D&D International 1987 Convention t-shirt today in his honor.

LessinNhaTrang, Vietnam

Wizard, your life force is running out.
 

Okay, so the competition is tighter than I thought.

Are there Jalousies over the Window in the Morgue?
 

Alain Robbe-Grillet cold to the touch.

First literature, then Alain. Alas.

A Two-fer
 

Anthony Minghella and Arthur C. Clarke

ETA: Neither of whom are on my list.

A Two-fer
 

His stories inspired me to think scientifically and dream of rockets. A dream that was irremediably smashed by my incomprehensible freshman calculus teacher.