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: Friend of the Family (MOIRA TOBIN WICKES, 46)
This GoogObit was written by my brother Kevin, in tribute to a woman he and his family knew from their old parish. His daughter Moira, who shares the name of the deceased, was very good friends with her son Tim when they went to school together at Northside Catholic Academy, St. Gertrude Campus.
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GoogObits: Nadines
The obituaries of Nadine Conner, Lyric Soprano With the Met, and just plain Nadine, Opera Soprano and Countess of Shrewsbury, were published on the same day. What were the chances of that?
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GoogObits: Delivered (OBITPOEM: WILLIAM FERRIS)
Here’s a new ObitPoem from the Economics serialization.
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GoogObits: Words (Malcolm Kilduff, Who Announced Kennedy’s Death, Dies at 75)
Right about now, as a powerful country reels back its fist and gets ready to show Iraqis once again how brute force can ruin everything, the power of words can be deprecated. But don’t be fooled. Words rule.
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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.