It’s Valentine’s Day, and you’re reading Obitmagazine.com. We figure you’re not here a Nicholas Sparks…
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It’s bad enough that social media such as Facebook and Twitter can harvest our information and use it as they wish, but now it’s dead tree media and obituaries? In Barnstable, Massachusetts,…
They say the Grim Reaper doesn’t have a sense of humor, but on March 27, 2002 the Scythemaster decided to prove everyone wrong. On that day, three towering figures were taken: comedian…
Here’s a pro tip: before you drive your hearse, make sure the back door is locked. Sadly, Shelton’s Funeral Home in Decatur, Alabama didn’t follow that simple rule, and is being sued for…
We lead off today’s O-Bits with a story about a trio of murder suspects who escaped from a Texas jail…only to be apprehended less than an hour later, when they stopped at…
Thinking of our East Coast friends, who are digging out from under their second snowstorm in as many weeks. Today’s storm features something with the especially scary name of “Thunder Snow,” which…
We’ve all seen those “100 Places You Must See Before You Die” stories. They’re fine, as far as travel porn goes—I hear Damascus is lovely this time of year—but at the Obit…
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…
It’s the day after the Oscars and, of course, people are bitching about the ceremony’s “In Memoriam” segment. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder sung Tom Petty’s “Room At The Top” in his baleful…
The Oscars are being given out tonight only a few blocks from the Obitmagaine niche, and we’re excited. But every year we think something’s missing. Not to take anything away from the…
“Bang Bang (She Shot Me Down),” despite not being much more than a novelty song, has endured to become something of standard. Why? We figure that the chorus is instantly memorable, but…
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