It seems odd for me to use a Paul Simon song to kick off Obit’s…
O-bits: Remembering the Dead Edition
Today is Veterans Day. Everyone should at at least a moment to reflect on the…
O-Bits: Death Stars Edition
Nathan Chetcuti, a 19-year-old snake handler and YouTube star, is fighting for his life after…
O-Bits: Black, or With Crematorium? Edition
We don’t know about you, but here at the O-bits we love coffee. In fact,…
O-Bits: A Minute Waltz With Death Edition
In today’s O-Bits, a composer’s heart, what the well-dressed skulls are wearing, and a mortuary…
O-Bits: Evidence of Bodies Edition
Fewer and fewer bodies might be planted in “England’s green and pleasant land.” A survey…
Paul Buckmaster, String Arranger to Rock Royalty, Dead at 71
Paul Buckmaster, whose arranged the strings heard on records by Elton John, David Bowie, the…
O-Bits: We’ve Only Just Begum Edition
It reads like a story by Salman Rushdie by way of William Faulker: a royal…
O-Bits—Slap and Trickle Edition
It’s called “the existential slap”: that moment when a person diagnosed with a terminal illness…
O-Bits: Post-Traumatic Stressed Edition
Like everyone else, we here at Obit are still reeling over the mass shooting Sutherland…