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The editor has since moved on to swards that offer him more green for his stiffs. But in the interests of history, this archive remains as a virtual tombstone to the days when a Xerox machine and a rudimentary knowledge of html were enough to earn the world's disregard.

• 2002

January - March: Billy Wilder, Chuck Jones, David Thomas, Old People and Big Foot
April - June: Ruth Handler, Stephen Jay Gould, Linda Lovelace, Ann Landers, Dee Dee Ramone
July - September: The New-York Times 150 Years Ago, Ancient Lords, Auto Safety, Dunkin Donuts
October - December: Allen Walker Read, Stephen Ambrose, Raymond McNally, Henry Chauncey, Joe Strummer

Check out the Editor's 9/11 and the Obituaries. Address to the Fourth Great Obituary Writer's Conference, in Los Vegas, NM.
Also check out this New Yorker Magazine feature by Mark Singer, about the conference. GoodBye! featured prominently!

• 2001

January - March: The Great Alzana, Morris Lapidus, John Schmitz, Xenakis, Link
April - June: Joseph Greenberg, Joey Ramone, Anthony Quinn, Hank Ketcham
July - September: Fred Hoyle, Larry Adler, Phoolan Devi, Pauline Kael
October - December: Grizzly Maven Frank Craighead, Art Historian Ernst Gombrich, Self-Nailer Melvin Burkhart

Check out the Editor's Address to the Third Great Obituary Writer's Conference, in Los Vegas, NM. A manifesto for change!
Also check out the Editor's Report from the Conference

• 2000

January - February: Charles Schulz, Patrick O'Brian, Doug Henning, Hedy Lamarr, Tom landry
March - April: David Merrick and Alexander Cohen, Edward Gorey, Alex Comfort
May - July: Life and Death in the New York Herald of 1850, Zookeeper John Aspinall, Barbara Cartland, Cardinal O'Connor
August - October: Prime Ministers, Lava Lamps, Smokey Bear artist, Mensa Founder, Trapeze Artists
November - December: Lars-Erik Nelson, David Brower, Jeffrey Dahmer's mom

• 1999

January - February: Iron Eyes Cody, Walter Lini, Mario Zacchini, William Whyte, Gene Siskel
March - June: Boxcar Willie, Joe Williams, Owen Hart, Senor Wences, Ray Forrest
July - August: David Ogilvy, Forrest Mars, Victor Mature, Weathermen
September - October: Jean Shepherd, Judith Exner, Mountaineers, George C. Scott
November - December: Quentin Crisp, Madeline Kahn, Paul Bowles

• 1998

January - February: Sonny Bono, Jack Lord, Julian Simon, Shinichi Suzuki, and Bubble Gum
March - May: Tammy Wynette, Barry Goldwater, Pol Pot, Dr. Spock
June - August: Roy Rogers, Carlos Castanada, Richard McDonald
September - October: Gene Autry, George Wallace, Betty Carter, Roddy McDowall
November - December: Flip Wilson, Bob Kane (Bat Man Man), William Gaddis. Stokely Carmichael, Mo Udall

• 1997

January - February: Last False Anastasia, Jeane Dixon, Pamela Harriman, Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
March - April: Jolie Gabor, Allen Ginsburg, Heaven's Gate, Laura Nyro, Mighty Cetaceans
May - August: Murrary Kempton, William S. Burroughs, Jeff Buckley, Sir James Goldsmith
September - October: ABBA's Stig, John Denver, James Michener
November - December: Anton Levay, Joyce Wethered, Brendan Gill, Chris Farley

• 1996

January: Last Catawba speaker, Eric Hebborn, Francois Mitterand, Jerry Mulligan
February: Martin Balsam, Edmund Brown, Gene Kelly, Charlie Finley, Audrey Meadows
March: George Burns, Pinhead the Chicken, Cardinal Krol, Edmund Muskie
April: Erma Bombeck, Hokey Pokey man, John McSherry, Jimmy the Greek, P.L. Travers
May - June: Mel Allen, Jon Pertwee, Max Factor, Timothy Leary, Joseph Mitchell
July - August : John Chancellor, Lawrence Jenco, Jessica Mitford
September - October: Spiro Agnew, Martha Entenmann, Pierre Franey, William Vickrey
November - December: Cardinal Bernadin, Alger Hiss, Vance Packard, Pete Rozelle, Carl Sagan

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