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Drag Racing obit risk Lizzy Musi has an update on her breast cancer: https://dragillustrated.com/lizzy-musi-announces-hiatus-from-street-outlaws-no-prep-kings-update-on-cancer-journey/ She now wants to go to Germany because health care in America is too limited... she has raced until very recently but now takes a hiatus.

Sounds like a care home/hospice with days or maybe a few weeks left to me.

Caleb Carr is a hit for me: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/books/caleb-carr-dead.html

Theoretical physician Lee Smolin has Parkinson's. He's "only 68 years old now, but watching this podcast with Slavoj Zizek, I briefly thought that he looks like Noam Chomsky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin

Destiny Deacon, aboriginal artist who kitsch-ified aboriginal art, dead at 67: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/24/destiny-deacon-superstar-indigenous-artist-and-activist-dies-aged-67

It's happening: https://www.thesun.ie/news/13029220/kabosu-dead-doge-meme-dog-dogecoin/

Last Instagram update 5 days ago, I just checked yesterday. Let's just say, it was time... Jimmy Carter seemingly outlives Kabosu...

The coin toss: Banana vs. msc.... 2-3. I kind of didn't want to do it, but it is what it is. If I was playing, my team would look quite like Banana's team....but msc does have a skill to not forget the continuously frail. I hope that match gets a legit hit.

You're right, sorry!

Tiny Joe Doering update, still battling cancer, and if I read it right, his treatment might be causing issues: https://www.pwmania.com/update-on-joe-doerings-battle-with-cancer Not returning to wrestling any time soon.

With the disqualification of Terry Jon Martin, Jan AP Kaczmarek has become a hit for me.

Unique hit for my B-team. Sadly, I had too little trust in those unique bonus points (I thought maybe some polish forum member might go for them).

Another update on Christoph Daum: https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/christoph-daum-macht-anderen-krebserkrankten-mut-kaempft-es-lohnt-sich-zu-leben-a-1cee0876-df74-412e-98cd-4c71d6bb4620 Basically, he's not cured but the cancer is stable. He's living with it.

The Bud Anderson military magazine obits are also just coming in: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/bud-anderson-america-last-world-204708859.html Guess we're back above >1 hit/day.

Also, if you want to, you can submit your teams for the next round from tomorrow on. I assume though that my inbox will remain relatively empty for a few more days. Also tomorrow: the coin toss for the remaining 0-0 game.

Ah yes, I was waiting for that one! I probably would have counted other obits, too, but not without a more detailed explanantion. Anyway, Jan Nicolay was an educator and politician. Her work in the educational field seems to be more appreciated, but being head of the South Dakota House appropriations committee was, nominally, the bigger role. In both roles, she was regarded as a trailblazer. She's also blazing a trail in the scoreboards as wannamaker and DDT score extremely valuable joker points. But remember, Nicolay is just one of the two "Must haves" as I announced at the beginning of the round. Brian Dayett is still alive (as of now). So the final words might not have been spoken yet. Perhaps 0-4 GuyFromFuture arghton 4-10 wannamaker Banana 0-0 msc DevonDeathTrip 6-4 max_bossetti

Frank Caprio not looking all that bad during radiotherapy, and actually thinking he might be cured: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Eie1vJn1o/?hl=de

I am so exhausted with this whole Israel-Palestine situation. It's been a problem for my whole life and I just cannot care anymore. It just divides everybody, it hurts Biden in Michigan, it causes a split in Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, students are clashing over it, and have been clashing over it since before I was a student. If I was a politician, I'd probably just let them, i.e. Israel and Palestine, battle it out on their own. Don't ask me about this issue - I won't say a single word.

I'm adding new names to my longlist, here's John Mew a week ago on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C66sdBAtVGw/

Yes, it doesn't count. It seems mostly copy/pasted from the legacy obit, i.e. it's a paid obituary. "Please join us in celebrating..." Btw, the Silvio Luiz obit seems a bit flimsy but I couldn't yet find any conclusive evidence that it's a simple google translate from something else, or that it's AI-generated. So for now, I assume that it's just poorly done but it counts. Still, that site seems to be the only one providing something english - and so far, not auto-translated. But I am open to objections. On the other hand.... while it was very strange that an influencer with +500.000 followers (That's not just Cup-qualifying but DDP-qualifying!) didn't receive an obit, the person behind the account, i.e. Tyler Powell, did receive a QO: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/05/man-dies-of-injuries-after-fall-in-giraffe-enclosure-at-deer-tracks-junction.html The obit doesn't mention the social media account - but for this game it still counts, so the arghton vs. wannamaker game is basically a competition of suboptimal obits: Perhaps 0-4 GuyFromFuture arghton 4-4 wannamaker Banana 0-0 msc DevonDeathTrip 0-4 max_bossetti

Alright, let's do this. Rudy Moreno was a stand-up comedian and behind-the-scenes figure in the L.A. area, which then also means, Hollywood. They call him "the godfather of Latino comedy" for his mentoring of young talent and who am I to criticize that classification. He didn't quite make it to Wikipedia levels of fame (yet?). He had a sepsis and a stroke a couple of weeks ago and succumbed after some weeks of suffering. max_bossetti scores a unique hit. Alice Munro was another unique hit, this time for GuyFromFuture who has managed to always sneak in some well-known old/frail person who becomes a hit for him. Munro herself doesn't need a lot of description as she got the universal coverage a literature Nobel Prize winner usually receives. She was a master of the short story. She had been silent for a couple of years and was a deadpooling staple for a while. Silvio Luiz scores a QO here, for example: https://777score.com/news/football/910336-legendary-brazilian-sports-broadcaster-silvio-luiz-dies-at-89. He was a Brazilian soccer commentator who never used the word "goal" to describe what was happening. Well, in media you need something to stand out.... ...which he also did by suffering a stroke on air. Arghton's ambulance chasing pays off greatly. Now, wannamaker also has a dead person on their team as influencer "Ty among animals" has died according to https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/tyler-powell-obituary?id=55041379 But I cannot see an obit! I'll keep looking, as I am just barely getting back to normal business after my trip. But so far, we have this: Perhaps 0-4 GuyFromFuture arghton 4-0 wannamaker Banana 0-0 msc DevonDeathTrip 0-4 max_bossetti

The article says that the husband suffers "multiple health issues". He might not be far behind.

I am aware that Alice Munro is a hit. Official update will happen next saturday. Greetings from Bukhara.

Well... this is a clusterfuck.

Rudy Moreno finally is the first hit: https://deadline.com/2024/05/rudy-moreno-dead-comedian-actor-was-66-obituary-1235912486/ Real update later.