music Blondie drummer Clem Burke, pioneering punk-pop percussionist, RIP Ellsworth Toohey

obituaries RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman" Ellsworth Toohey

books RIP Tom Robbins, author of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment RIP David Lynch, visionary director who brought surrealism to the mainstream Boing Boing

deaths Actor Donald Sutherland dead at 88 Rob Beschizza

navelgazing What's it's like to moderate obituary comments Rob Beschizza

Japan Can stop the music: Karaoke inventor dies Carolyn Townsend

death RIP: David Soul of "Starsky and Hutch" died yesterday at age 80 Carla Sinclair

death Proud trailer park lot owner and "gluttonous eater of fried foods and snack cakes" memorialized with wonderful obituary David Pescovitz

obituaries Dame Edna's self-penned obituary pokes at 'would-be comedian' Barry Humphries Rusty Blazenhoff

obituaries Patti Smith's touching tribute to guitarist Tom Verlaine Gareth Branwyn

Rock n Roll Iconic rock guitarist, Jeff Beck, has died Gareth Branwyn

psychedelic Space music pioneer, Nik Turner, dead at 82 Gareth Branwyn

obituaries RIP country music pioneer, Loretta Lynn Gareth Branwyn

architecture Christopher Alexander, pioneering architect and creator of A Pattern Language, has died Gareth Branwyn

obituaries Paddy Moloney, founding member of The Chieftains, has passed away. Séamus Bellamy

rpgs Farewell, Steve Perrin, SCA co-founder and creator of RuneQuest Gareth Branwyn

astronauts RIP Michael Collins, "Third Man" of the first Moon landing Mark Frauenfelder

obituaries Underground comics icon, S. Clay Wilson, has died Gareth Branwyn