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: Short Prayers (Former New York retailer popularized miniskirts)
From New York miniskirts to Appalachian mumbleprayers. Things change, everybody.
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GoogObits: Adaptation (Bill Cayton, 85, Boxing Former Manager, Is Dead)
One of the cliches about life in a hyper-capitalist society like ours is that your career may go through 3 or 4 dramatic changes before it’s all said and done. That kind of flexibility is highly prized around here. Bill Cayton didn’t have any problem with that. He started off as a chemical engineer, then…
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Ouch (One Day Longer)
“If she had lived just one day longer, she would have become the oldest,”
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GoogObits: Old (ELENA SLOUGH, 114 or 115)
People who live a super-long time occupy a special place in our culture. They become nearly freaks, pushing the edge of vampirism, lonely dancers of a mid-50s dance marathon.
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GoogObits: Friends
Sometimes I don’t feel safe in my own neighborhood. By “neighborhood”, I mean the United States of America, home of 3,000 dead agnates. Reading Alija Izetbegovic’s obituary can give you some pretty good insight into the source of my anxiety. He was a waffler, a Muslim, a good man.