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http://en.wikipedia....fatal_accidents There was a bit of a minor "edit war" at Wikipedia whether to include Maria de Villota on the list of fatal F1 crashes. I remember looking last week and she was on the list, then she was off it, and on, and now she seems to be off again permanently. Which absolutely makes no sense whatsoever because all reports seem to indicate that she died from a lingering injury related to the crash. Just because she died over a year later that doesn't mean she survived the accident did she? Seems like the lunatics always win at Wikipedia. I mean, what about that Hillsborough guy? Tony Whateverhisnamewas, who died 4 years later when they finally decided to switch the ventilator off. Nobody says he "survived". Wikipedia edit wars don't usually excite me but since it's motorsport, a subject I feel marginally passionate about, and the fact that it's basically the 1st active F1 driver fatality since Senna...

Missed the 27 Club by a month. Bummer.

Ronald Shannon Jackson, "the most stately free-jazz drummer in the history of the idiom, a regal and thundering presence", has died aged 73. I imagine that means he hit any drum he felt like as hard as he felt like at any moment he felt like, but I'm buggered if I'm going to listen to confirm. Louis Balfour was undoubtedly a big fan.

Now that she's won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, I think Alice Munro is, at age 82, one to keep an eye on. I know nothing about her health, but when given late in life the Prize is a bit of a kiss of death. regards, Hein