Googbits Essays
All hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts for which I wrote original essays along with annotations.
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GoogObits: Superior (LUCILLE LAWSON, 84)
I wonder what we’ll look back on in 50 years and feel superior about. Maybe the idea that it used to be OK to kill thousands of people because the guy who runs their country won’t share his oil with you.
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GoogObits: Awkward (John Houston, 82, Manager, Father of Whitney Houston)
I think you’ll agree that the unbylined writer who described John Houston’s $100 million lawsuit against his daughter as “an especially awkward turn” in their relationship really does take the tact cake for today.
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GoogObits: Temperament (Dr. Alexander Thomas, 89, Who Studied Human Temperament, Is Dead)
Today is the 4th birthday of my first-born son. He is a great person and being associated with him is one of the great joys of my life. So you can understand why I was excited when I read about the life’s work of Dr. Alexander Thomas, who found that “over the years, almost unnoticeably,…
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GoogObits: Together (2 Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood and His Wife, Linda Braidwood, Die)
They died of the same disease in the same hospital on the same day, 20 hours apart, just long enough for their former employer to publish his obituary listing her as surviving him.
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GoogObits: Words (Will McDonough, 67, Columnist Who Covered Every Super Bowl, Is Dead)
Obviously, we can say whatever we want. Free country, etc. But we’ve got to remember that what we say has a life of its own, and is repeated and re-purposed and syndicated and Googled and copied and just may end up at a time and place that you wouldn’t want them to be.