Salon Blogs
All 63 hypertext enjambment-style GoogObits posts originally published on the Salon Blog I maintained from October 2002 through November 2003.
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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.
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GoogObits: The Uses of Wood (KARL GUSTAV DAHLSTROM, 102)
Karl Gustav Dahlstrom, 102, a carpenter who worked for Anderson Brothers Furniture in Chicago for 30 years and who spent almost every day of his adult life in a wood shop, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stream of natural causes.
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GoogObits: Sister (Rushton Skakel Is Dead at 79; Father of Killer)
Today we’re served up the second death in a row of a guy whose sister married into a royal family and whose death was announced by a lawyer. Patterns.
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GoogObits: Infection (Mohammed al-Fassi, 50; Upset Beverly Hills Over House)
For all of you out there: if you’ve somehow developed of tissue deficiency of the transversus abdominis muscle (which makes up the floor of the inguinal canal), allowing some of your intestines to protrude directly through a defect in the inguinal canal floor, you might want to go check that out professionally, or you may…