There Are So Many Ways To Go

When Does A Fake Mohawk Become A Real Mohawk? Who Decides? How Do You Know If It's Happened?

When The Clock Stops On A Life, All Things Emanating From It Become Precious, Finite, And Cordoned Off For Preservation. Each Aspect Of The Dead Person Is Removed From The Flux Of The Everyday, Which, Of Course, Is Where We Miss Him Most. The Quarantine Around Death Makes It Feel Unlucky And Wrong--a Freakish Incursion--and The Dead, Thus Quarantined, Come To Seem More Dead Than They Already Are.... Borrowing From The Dead Is A Way Of Keeping Them Engaged In Life's Daily Transactions--in Other Words, Alive.

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Kathy Was A Republican, One Of Those People Who Used The Unforgivable Phrase "meant To Be"--usually When Describing Her Own Good Fortune Or The Disasters That Had Befallen Other People.

The Music Industry Is An Interesting Lens Through Which To Look At Change, Because It Has Had Such A Difficult Time Adjusting To The Digital Age.