Googbits Essays

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…

Most of us find ourselves in goofy situations in our daily struggle to make money and obtain enough calories to sustain life. Jan Miner was a serious actress. Jan Miner found herself telling people they were “soaking in it” over the course of 27 years. All hail Jan Miner. Jan Miner, 86, Stage Actress Who Played Palmolive’s…

As a writer, words are really all I’ve got. That’s why typography and design have always been intense passions of mine. I’d rather hang out with type people than writers any day. We lost a good one in Rob Roy Kelly. Here is an annotation of Steven Heller’s obituary from the NYT for those of us who didn’t know him while he lived. See Design Observer for…