Gregory Mcdonald has died.
I first wrote "passed away," but decided that wasn't terse enough. (Oh, dear, how terse will I have to be when James Ellroy dies? Maybe it'd be this: "Ellroy? Fuckin' dead.")
"Alas, a lack. "(Ooo, sounds poetic.)"
(That context? A friend was watching The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King.) "The trampoline salesman from The Emperor's New Groove…
"This is the 'Too Many Cooks' of burgers."