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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OBITPOEM: ROSE BLUMKIN
Before I came up with the idea of GoogObits, I used to create ObitPoems, which are found poems (poems I found, not wrote) based on the text of obit snippets that seemed particulary poetic to me. This Spring I’m publishing a book called Economics, and I am serializing that book over here. Go here for the Economics table…
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GoogObits: Ash (Lee Kreindler, 78, Air-Crash Lawyer, Dies)
If there is one thing that living in a market economy teaches us, it’s that there is no such thing as a complete disaster. I always marvel when someone says– with surprise– that “like a phoenix from the ashes”, they managed to come out of a bad situation and did OK. Because the phoenix is…
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Better Beaver
Today we find out why it’s always best to wait for the New York Times obituary to be published.
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GoogObits: Beaver (JOE CONNELLY, 85)
This one’s for Hoback.
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GoogObits: HOLMES `DADDY-O’ DAYLIE, 82
Jazz deejay Holmes “Daddy-O” Daylie was to rhyme what Michael Jordan was to basketball or what Redd Foxx was to comedy,” said his longtime friend, Dempsey Travis. In other words, he was tops, Pops.