GoogObits

Ronald Reagan is dead. He certainly lived a long time. He certainly was a creep in many ways. Time passes. He’s dead. Now, I’m not a big fan of GoogObiting famous people. I like the lesser-known weirdos, people we can learn from. There’s no more to learn from Reagan. So I’m going to institute a…

I am fascinated by the meaning of money. Not just on a workady, “I don’t got no money” level (though I am extremely familiar with that), but on the level where economics & finance meet chaos theory & psychic hotlines. Credit ratings sit at the center of this stuff. If you’re a big business, Standard & Poor’s is always…

I passionately love good reporters. They are the best poets around. Here in the middle of “Be Condescending to a Poet Month“, all hail Murray Illson. April 8, 2004Murray Illson, 91, a Times Reporter Who Gave a Deft Touch to the Mundane, DiesBy THE NEW YORK TIMES Murray Illson, a retired reporter for The New…

Stanislaw Ryniak managed to live to be old and to die of unknown causes. This was no small achievement. February 28, 2004Stanislaw Ryniak, Auschwitz Inmate, Dies at 88By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Feb. 25 — Stanislaw Ryniak, the first person imprisoned at Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi concentration camp, has died. He was 88. Mr.…

It’s hard to avoid pop culture phenomenons. Our current obsession is Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of The Christ. Beneath these behemoths lie a world of a billion smaller cultural moments, places, people, and things. My Significant Other took a singing workshop with Carl Anderson in Rome a few years ago. I remember her speaking…