Googbits Essays
All hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts for which I wrote original essays along with annotations.
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GoogObits: Mensch (THOMAS H. HARRIS, 77)
Sometimes the only thing you can learn from an obituary is that a really cool person who you never got to know has recently died.
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GoogObits: Pretext (Shlomo Argov, 73, Ex-Israeli Envoy, Dies)
One of the banes of a Fame and News Society like the one we’ve developed here on Earth is the fact that it can be hard for individuals to control the world’s perception of you. Governments and multinational corporations spend buku dollars doing just that– exerting their reality, manipulating the trut, and plain-old making up lies.
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GoogObits: Jerry (OBITPOEM: BENNY WATERS)
Everybody’s down on the French these days. And with good reason. But everyone’s got some redeeming qualities. Here’s to the French, everybody.
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GoogObits: Heroes (KAZIMIERZ SCIBOR, 77)
Most lives are a combination of the heroic and the mundane. Some heroism is well-known & seen by many. Some mundanity is is well-known & seen by many. Most heroism and most mundanity are seen by few. Here’s Kaz Scibor– fighter of Nazis, maker of furniture.
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OBITPOEM: ROSE BLUMKIN
Before I came up with the idea of GoogObits, I used to create ObitPoems, which are found poems (poems I found, not wrote) based on the text of obit snippets that seemed particulary poetic to me. This Spring I’m publishing a book called Economics, and I am serializing that book over here. Go here for the Economics table…