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It’s been thirty-one years since Georgia O’Keefe died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and her painting still have the power to enchant. Sensual flowers, their petals opening like vulva, and desert skulls,…
“Sustainability” and “cemeteries” are two words you just don’t expect to be seen in the same sentence; after all, aren’t the existence of cemeteries proof that humans lack sustainablity? But at Oregon…
Russ Solomon, who changed music retailing with his chain of Tower Records, died yesterday. According to his hometown Sacramento Bee, Solomon died while watching the Oscars. He asked his wife to refill his…
From our Would You Like To Buy A Bridge file: We just don’t know where to begin with the story about the napping morgue security guard who was accidentally cremated. To start,…
Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is arguably the best worst movie ever made. Matching endless ambition with minimal talent, The Room is one of those rare pictures where every decision made is wrong,…
Quel dommage. Johnny Hallyday, le rockeur national de France, c’est mort. For those of you not francophones, what a pity. Johnny Hallyday, France’s national rocker, is dead at 74. He was often…
As a kid, I never really had any idea who Christine Keeler, who died Monday at the age of 75, was. Her name was linked with the “Profumo Scandal,” which brought down…
Roy Orbison was the American singer/songwriter best known for his operatic falsetto voice on dark emotional ballads like “Only the Lonely,” “Crying,” “In Dreams” and “Oh, Pretty Woman.” Orbison was discovered and…
There’s something especially heinous about misappropriating money from a funeral fund; it’s not just that they’ve taken advantage of people at their most grief-stricken and vulnerable but that the action besmirches the…
We here at O-Bits like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but we don’t see how anyone could have been taken in by CIA Agent Killed Bob Marley. It’s pretty…
It’s hard to know what to say, or how to comfort someone dealing with the loss of a loved one. But in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a man made a touching gesture by stopping…
It’s a bit disconcerting to look at our spite-filled politics, with people denying the humanity of their political opponents, a president tweeting bile against perceived enemies both outside and inside his government,…
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