O-Bits: Spoiled Alerts Edition

Usually, the words “Spoiler Alert” is there to warn you that a review or discussion of a movie or TV show might include something that gives away a big “reveal”; think Rosebud…

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Rusty Staub, April 1, 1944—March 29, 2018

For most of us, it’s Opening Day, but for Rusty Staub, “Le Grand Orange,”  who was a star for the Houston Astros, the Montreal Expos, and the New York Mets, recorded his…

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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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Dead of the Day: Alex Chilton

While most of the world celebrates March 17th as the anniversary of the death of St. Patrick, it also marks another year without Alex Chilton. We could go into his history (teenaged…

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O-Bits: Dead and Alive Edition

A new addition to our list of places to avoid if you’re dead: Romania. Where the courts, seeing a living person, have no problem telling them “sorry, you’re dead.” Sixty-three-year-old Constantin Reliu petitioned…

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Gloomy Tunes: Ty Segall, “Caesar”

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…

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O-Bits: It’s Dead! It’s Dead! Edition

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 …

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O-Bits: Dumber Indemnity Edition

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…

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