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You want to know how much Obit loves you? Well, instead of doing the easy thing, and just embedding The Ides of March’s “Vehicle” here and calling it a day (nothing against…
Say you want to live forever…or at least have your consciousness, your inner self, your brain survive after you’ve shuffled off. Nectome, a start-up co-founded by an MIT grad, is offering to …
Add Gauteng, South Africa to our list of places to not be caught dead. A strike among mortuary workers has caused a backlog of some 65 bodies waiting for post mortems. The…
Like many kids in the 60s, I was fascinated by the space program. My earliest memory is riding my tricycle through our apartment, President Kennedy on the TV announcing a successful flight.…
Merle Ginsberg reminds us that Sonny Bono—Phil Spector factotum, half of Sonny and Cher, California congressman, and hero to short men everywhere— died today in 1998. So why not give a listen…
Sonny Bono, one half of the famed 60’s/70’s pop musical duo Sonny & Cher, died in 1998 at age 62, doing one of his favorite things: skiing. With his buckskin fringe vests…
O-Bits hasn’t had to think about cleaning snow from our walkways in many years, but we used to make a couple of bucks on snow days clearing our neighbors driveways, so we’re…
It’s been thirty-nine years since the great composer/bandleader Charles Mingus died of ALS in Mexico, and his music can still engage and surprise. Take this song, 1961’s “Don’t Let Them Drop That…
The Strand Bookstore, on Broadway and 12th Street in New York City, was a smorgasbord for book-lovers. It was impossible to walk out of there empty-handed—I know my bookshelves would be less…
On January 3, 2014, Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers died at the age of 75. He and his brother Don formed the guitar playing/pop singing duo, both of which were born…
A wildlife camp in Dundee, Scotland did more than ask for a moment of silence after the youngest member of their troop of loin-tailed macaques died recently—they shut the entire park down…
Lots of famous people were born on January 1 throughout world history: J. Edgar Hoover, J.D. Salinger, E.M. Forster, Frank Langella, Betsy Ross, playwright Joe Orton, Richard Nixon, Patti Smith –…
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