Check this guy out. I guess I was a little shaky taking the picture above—the subtitle reads "On Metaphor And Mortality." He is probably my favorite out-of-town undertaker. This is one of two books of essays/memoirs—the other is called appropriately enough The Undertaking-Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. I think he has a couple others out too, some poems and something else. See Amazon. They are available in paperback. Now that I have read over his webpage I realize he is even more famous than I thought. I'm sorry I missed the program on PBS.
This is a small experiment in the blogosphere. "If you have no interest in what it's like to grow old, what follows is not for you. However, if it's going to happen to you, and the outcome is ultimately going to be negative, then finding a way to make the process as bearable, even as enjoyable as possible, might be worth a little attention."—from John Jerome's On Turning Sixty-Five
21 November 2008
I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
Check this guy out. I guess I was a little shaky taking the picture above—the subtitle reads "On Metaphor And Mortality." He is probably my favorite out-of-town undertaker. This is one of two books of essays/memoirs—the other is called appropriately enough The Undertaking-Life Studies from the Dismal Trade. I think he has a couple others out too, some poems and something else. See Amazon. They are available in paperback. Now that I have read over his webpage I realize he is even more famous than I thought. I'm sorry I missed the program on PBS.
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