In memoriam.
itstheshirtsagainsttheblouses replied to your post: There are obituaries for the dead of Harry Potter in today’s newspaper.
OH MY GAWD. SCAN THEM AND POST THEM! :O
They’re under a read more out of consideration. :)
Plus I had to take pictures; my scanner’s currently out of commission.
From the July 15th Harrisburg Patriot News. By Julia Hatmaker.

“I think for, you know, the moms and dads out there, the people who give money to Christian advocacy groups, to the RNC, what they want is something really, you know, important. They want to try and make America better. And they've been led to believe that somehow all of that can be achieved through politics. All of if can be achieved particularly through conservative politics. And you fast from something not because it's evil, but because you want to step away and focus on something more spiritual. And I really would love to see a period of time for a couple of years where evangelical voter stopped giving to all these political groups and started giving to the poor, you know, started giving their time to after-school programs, started, you know, doing two things that Jesus said, like loving your neighbor and -- and again, redirecting that money towards the poor. And I think that it would provide some much-needed perspective on the political environment.”
—The late David Kuo talking to Terry Gross in 2006 about his call for a fast from politics for evangelicals. Kuo, the Deputy Director of President George W. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, became disillusioned with the politics of the Bush White House. He died on Friday at age 44. He had brain cancer."At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler."
nytimes.comThe actual Most Interesting Man in the World died last week. If you haven’t taken a minute to read his obituary, please do so now.
“F*** them is what I say! I hate those eBooks. They cannot be the future; they may well be. I will be dead! I won’t give a s***!”
—Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) on eBooks, on The Colbert Report.“Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC.”
—from Rex W. Huppke’s obituary of Facts (360 B.C.-A.D. 2012).Rosalie Lightning
laurenweinstein.comRosalie Lightning, daughter of graphic novelists Leela Corman and Tom Hart, passed away suddenly in her sleep last night. She was almost two years old.
Lauren Weinstein has started a PayPal account (rosalielightning@gmail.com) for donations to help Tom and Leela with expenses from this heartbreaking event. You can send other condolences to rosalielightningmemorial@gmail.com