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Yeah, yeah, my heart goes out to his family and all the usual clichés, but I don’t care that he walked on the moon. I’m not going to pretend to give a shit about Neil Armstrong. Perfect!ĭeath is also the perfect subject to dwell on as we shovel the dirt on another year. ![]() ![]() When your subject is dead, you’ve got the beginning, middle, and end of the story. If there was one newspaper job that I would have preferred above all others, it would have been writing obituaries. It was never my goal, and now that newspapers are heading the way of silent movies I'm glad of that, but it was more attractive than a lot of the alternatives. It doesn’t matter what kind of life you lived, you’re dead and I’m still breathing.īack in my college days when I alternated courses in Journalism and Art before embracing English, I thought I might end up writing for a newspaper. ![]() That may be why I’ve always enjoyed reading obituaries. Calling Tom Petty to tell him the news, Harrison said, "Aren't you glad it wasn't you?" After watching Martin Scorsese’s recent Harrison documentary, I learn that the “quiet Beatle” was a pretty funny guy, even when the subject was as serious as the death of fellow Traveling Wilbury Roy Orbison. ![]() It was John Lennon who had the reputation as the "witty Beatle." Having been so preoccupied with Eastern mysticism, George Harrison seemed to lack a sense of humor.
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