Parry wrote:
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> elag wrote:
> >
> > Parry wrote:
> > >
> > > elag wrote:
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> > > > Corpse at busy intersection in Osaka, Japan ignored for two months
> > >
> > > A pointy yang to your pointed yin...
> > >
> > > Rockers Eulogize Millionaire Mulheren
> > >
> > ....
> >
> > I'd like to leave some instructions for a whimsical and irreligious
> > funeral, but I have my doubts as to whether my wishes would really be
> > carried out.
> >
> > I guess that after they shovel all my artwork, scripts and films into a
> > landfill, some doddering cat-lick harp polisher will mumble some
> > religious doggerel over my rotting corpse, and everyone will be
> > satisfied that solemn dignity has been maintained...
> >
> > My ideas run more along the lines of a New Orleans Jazz band... all the
> > dandelion wine you can drink... and maybe a loop of Fatty Arbucke and
> > Mable Normand shorts playing on the side of my pine box... everyone
> > would be issued a "sharpie" so they could write amusing limericks on the
> > sky blue MuMu in which I wish to be buried... It goes w/o saying that I
> > will carve my own tombstone... my epitaph might be:
> >
> > "If you are a frog do not try to sing like a nightingale. Croak and
> >
> > but that would take an awful long time to carve!
>
> No funeral for me. Pull the plug, burn the body. Now, yet another news
> clipping...
I just can't resist another opportunity to muck about with bits and
pieces even after I flatline.
>
> Friday January 09, 2004
>
> By Brian Thevenot Staff writer
>
> On Monday, the parents of Finley Christopher Farley, 45, firmed up
> arrangements for his funeral...
> http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-1/107363338119460.xml
The story reminded me of Rene Clair's film "It Happened Tomorrow"...
which might make sense if you've seen it... maybe it's time for a
sequel: "It'll Happen Yesterday".
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