Goin’ Down Slow — Howlin’ Wolf
(spoken:) Man… You know I’ve been enjoyin’ things that kings and queens will never have! In fact kings and queens can never get ‘m. And they don’t even know about it! And good times? Mmmmmmmmm-mmh!! (sung:) I have had my fun, if I never get well no more (x 2) Oh my health is fadin’ […]
Death is a great score-settler
Hat tip to Xpiry
Quote of the day
“You don’t often see polka dots at a funeral.” Waldemar Januszczak in The Times here.
Double entendre of the day
WHITNEY HOUSTON Funeral Home Denies Leaking Casket Photo Headline in numerous newspapers following the publication by the National Enquirer of an unauthorised photo of Whitney Houston in her casket.
Modern life
yesterday was my mum’s heavenly birthday i light candles every day for my friends angels and wish them heavenly birthdays and put a pic in there garden yes she had a couple of verses put on but not one heavenly birthday wish or pic i know people dont have to do this but […]
Thoughts for Lent
Posted by Richard Rawlinson “I’ve been to funerals where I was pretty sure the majority were atheists and they listened to the vicar say the deceased had gone to a better place and everyone’s toes curled. We can’t prove it’s not so but the chances that it is, are rather meagre. If […]
R.E.M. – Find the River
Hey now, little speedyhead, The read on the speedometer says You have to go to task in the city Where people drown and people serve Don’t be shy. Your just dessert Is only just light years to go Me, my thoughts are flower strewn Ocean storm, bayberry moon I have got to leave to […]
Quote of the day
“I chose the start of the overture from The Mikado as the music for my Dad’s funeral…..it was that, or his other favourite, Doris Day, but my Mum pointed out that everyone would think we were outing him, so G&S it was…” Source
Modern times
Rum goings-on emerge from the online memorial website GoneTooSoon here (which we’ve never had a lot of time for at the GFG), where a variation of trolling seems to be going on. In an online discussion titled Victim of FAKE memorials 🙁 Vicki writes: I’m sorry, but recently, I have been the victim of several […]
Death and Life
Transitus member Zambodhi Schlossmacher has written to tell us of this book, just out. Here’s the blurb: Bruno Bitterli-Furst was amazed when Elisabeth Kubler-Ross first contacted him from the spiritual world. Initially, he disbelieved her authenticity. However, over the course of communicating with her, it became unequivocally clear that this being from the spiritual […]
