I'm aware it's early to post this blog. Twenty sixteen is almost over, and I figured it was time to do one of these.

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I feel as if this picture is incredibly important right now.

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Man, I just don't know what to tell ya, folks.

This week, some great treasures of the small screen died. And so did one of the most influential figures of modern medicine.

The worst part is I somehow missed all of these until I was doing my weekly round-up. Alan Thicke's death came as a complete shock, as did Bernard Fox's. Both of those happened days ago.

Bernard Fox dying...that hurts. He's one of my favorite character actors from yesteryear.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

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Here are the notable deaths for the past two weeks from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

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That's all I have to say about that.

Brace yourselves people. We're going to be in for a fucked up four years.

Okay, look, folks.

Prince died. In an elevator. Alone.

It's confirmed this was no suicide. There's no obvious signs of anything unusual other than that he died.

By all accounts, Prince didn't have any sort of drug addiction. Not even painkillers.

So please, you media vultures, you media ghouls, stop trying to create a big dramatic narrative about opiates or Percoset or whatever the FUCK you want to sell papers and ad time with.

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Henceforth, the Weekly Death Blog will be posted on Saturdays. I'm combining this week's death blog with a little personal note about all my blogs, especially one particular ongoing blog series, just as a friendly and courteous reminder to my followers and readers. For the sake of not forcing everyone to read the latter, it will be placed after a cut.

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I might as well start a weekly feature of obituaries culled from WIkipedia's recent deaths page. Since this year someone we knew and respected/admired is dying on a weekly basis.

*sigh* Let's get on with it.

This week's notable deaths (note: I'm listing people I or someone close to me would be personally aware of. I'm not listing every single death on Wikipedia.):

Harper Lee, 89, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird).

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While checking the obits on Wikipedia, I discovered that two Magic: the Gathering illustrators, Wayne England and Christopher Rush, died within a day of each other this week.

I don't collect or play M:tG, but odds are some of my followers do, so I thought I'd share this news.

....my BFF has decided not to go, says it's too much hassle with the money side atm for her.
I'm starting to wonder about it myself. Getting to Manchester is looking more and more convoluted...the train tickets alone will be about £130 now if the train sites are accurate.

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Before I get into the celebrity deaths, let us pay our respects to all the victims of the recent earthquakes in Japan. Many lives have been lost. Thousands have been injured. Billions of yen in damage have been done.

Pray for them.

Now, this week's celebrity deaths. As usual, see Wikipedia for the full list of 2016 notable deaths.

- Ouhira Tohru, voiceover artist (Super Sentai Series, Japanese dub voice of Darth Vader and Homer Simpson), 86.

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He was eccentric. He was a visionary. He was a legend.

He was one of those artists those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s hold in the same reverence as Michael Jackson.

And now, he's gone.

Rest in peace, Prince. Your legend will live on forever, as will your music.

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There, I said it.

The only thing I got excited about that I didn't already know about was Resident Evil 7 (which doesn't take a page from Outlast, but half the damn book), and maybe the Crash Bandicoot remasters.

I was already excited for Titanfall 2. Already anticipating Horizon Zero Dawn. The Xbox One S was a given, and Project Scorpio is either gonna be underwhelming, or a niche and ahead of its time.

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For those of you who didn't see the post on my old account, I'll be attending Bronycon this year as a volunteer. I'll be helping out with the writing panels as a liaison, so if you go to any of those and see a pale-faced nerd in a staff shirt with brown hair, glasses, and bad posture, that's probably me. I'll be going by my SFW moniker of CyborgSamurai (for obvious reasons) but if you're around and you wanna say hi, feel free!

Hope to see you there!

Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

One that I missed last week, which is noteworthy for how shocking and bizarre it is: the murder of British politician Jo Cox. See Wikipedia for more details.

June 19:
- Anton Yelchin, 27, Soviet-born American actor (Star Trek, Alpha Dog, Fright Night), traffic collision. (Nooooooooooo ;_;)

June 21:

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

Note: This blog primarily covers actors, writers, and musicians. With few exceptions, notable sports figures are usually not covered in this blog. Political figures are also not covered unless they are exceptionally noteworthy.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

Note: This blog primarily covers actors, writers, and musicians. With few exceptions, notable sports figures are usually not covered in this blog. Political figures are also not covered unless they are exceptionally noteworthy.

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I have absolutely no qualms about eating my hat when my preconceptions about a game wind up being false.

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