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: VOLGARE PROCLAMATION
VOLGARE PROCLAMATION Employing this new Manuscripts Folio Typeface by Stephen Farrell to Demand an Accounting of the 8,000 or so People Killed in the Massacre of Srebrenica. Between Tuesday, July 11, and Friday, July 14, 1995, in a UN-designated “safe area”, the Bosnian Serb military, led by General Ratko Mladic, blew past a small contingent…
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GoogObits: BALTHUS AND EARNHARDT ARE DEAD
Balthus and Earnhardt excelled.
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GoogObits: Pretext (Shlomo Argov, 73, Ex-Israeli Envoy, Dies)
One of the banes of a Fame and News Society like the one we’ve developed here on Earth is the fact that it can be hard for individuals to control the world’s perception of you. Governments and multinational corporations spend buku dollars doing just that– exerting their reality, manipulating the trut, and plain-old making up lies.
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GoogObits: Jerry (OBITPOEM: BENNY WATERS)
Everybody’s down on the French these days. And with good reason. But everyone’s got some redeeming qualities. Here’s to the French, everybody.
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GoogObits: Heroes (KAZIMIERZ SCIBOR, 77)
Most lives are a combination of the heroic and the mundane. Some heroism is well-known & seen by many. Some mundanity is is well-known & seen by many. Most heroism and most mundanity are seen by few. Here’s Kaz Scibor– fighter of Nazis, maker of furniture.