The GFG Blog
2010Apr
Fast track to eternity
Charles
Apr
30
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Clever guy, that Shakespeare. He foresaw the viral capability of the internet long before the invention of the penny post. Here’s Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “I’ll put a girdle around the Earth in 40 minutes!” Which is as long as it took young gunshot victim David Morales Colón
Blessed are the wicked
Charles
Apr
29
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We all acknowledge the link between sex and death – but what is it that links crime with death? A really good gangster funeral is a sight to see. These guys do not go incognito into that good night. Having shunned any sort of limelight all their lives, this is
Tidying up our dead
Charles
Apr
29
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Very nice piece in the Washington Post by Tracy Grant: Closets are odd creatures … In starter homes, newlywed husbands tease their brides that all their clothes will never fit in that closet. When the homebuyers are upscale, the closets can boast more square footage than some Manhattan apartments. But
Resurrection!
Charles
Apr
28
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Thanks to the supernatural genius of Ian ‘Harry’ Harris (no, he’s not a gangster, he’s a web wizard) at Carron Media, this blog has, by dint of main force, gentle coaxing and the application of recondite algorithms, been migrated from Blogger, which is pulling the plug on it, to WordPress,
Minute of mayhem for Malcolm McLaren
Charles
Apr
23
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Did the idea catch fire? Dunno. The Guardian wants to know what was your minute of mayhem. Track the responses here.
Burying Jed Kesey
Charles
Apr
23
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Here’s an extract from an account of the funeral of Ken Kesey: It was the least maudlin memorial service and funeral I’ve ever been to—his family and community loved him and shared his disinterest in sentimentality. At the burial at his farm his corpse was right there in front of
Life Ain’t Always Beautiful
Charles
Apr
22
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Here’s an unusually well-written blog: THE MY WIFE HAS CANCER BLOG. Had. She died on 29 March, and its author will shortly be wrapping it up. It’s a very good, if sometimes difficult, read. And there’s an interesting post on funeral costs. We’d find it hard to do anything like
Quickie Wednesday
Charles
Apr
21
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Interesting piece from Canada on home funerals in which a ‘death midwife’ (gotta find a better term than that!) acknowledges that funeral directors can, in the right circumstances, do the job as well as her. She’s right, of course. Good funeral directors are not the enemy. Read it From Pam
Cash for corpses
Charles
Apr
20
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You can tell how developed a society is by the price it puts on life. Could, rather. In the most developed societies there’s a re-evaluation going on. The Office of National Statistics calculates that death is now preceded by the unendurable prospect of an average 10 years’ chronic illness or
What about the workers?
Charles
Apr
20
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Here’s a nice biz opp for someone in the UK: a jobs review site. Wossat? It’s a site where people leave anonymous reviews about the company they work for. Very useful for people thinking about working for that company. Over in the US they have a few of these sites.
