O-Bits: Death and Disruption Edition

We’re all for modernizing the funeral business around the O-Bits niche, but we’re skeptical about the “innovations” Ian Strang of Beyond outlines at Forbes. He’s determined to disrupt the industry, creating what…

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Gloomy Tunes: Mark E. Smith, RIP

I never met Mark E. Smith, but he was a regular presence in my life. Good, bad (but never indifferent) you could count on a new Fall record every year. . One…

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Rosie the Riveter, RIP

It’s a iconic image of WWII America—a woman in a workshirt, he hair covered by a polka-dot headscarf, flexing her arm muscle and declaring “We can do it.” But the identity of…

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O-Bits: Ghosts In The Matrimony Edition

Here’s a wedding that doesn’t happen everyday. Amanda Sparrow Large, a 45-year-old Irish woman who works as a Jack Sparrow impersonator, married the spirit of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate.  They met, according…

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O-Bits: Abby Normal Edition

Shades of Young Frankenstein! As part of a survey of human-error incidents in mortuaries throughout the United Kingdom, it was discovered at an undertaker put the wrong brain back into a body…

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O-Bits: Walls and Bridges Edition

It’s the day after Martin Luther King’s birthday, and here’s a story that gives us an idea of just how much further we need to travel to get to the color-blind world…

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Gloomy Tunes: Abraham Martin and John

Martin Luther King would have turned 83 today. It would be nice to think that, if he was alive, he could look toward a nation that was still progressing, that the arc…

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