Posts Tagged ‘celebrity death’
Vote or Die… or, “and”
3, Nov 2009 Episode 20: This Ungainly Fowl
Nate DiMeo, The Memory Palace (October 16, 2009)
In honor of Election Day in the United States and in roundabout follow-up to Edgar Allan Poe’s century-late funeral, check out this recent podcast from Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace.
Nate describes the circumstances surrounding Poe’s mysterious death, who was found in the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime
- Tags: celebrity death, mysterious deaths
Houdini’s Final Disappearing Act
30, Oct 2009A Halloween Tale: Houdini’s Lonely Grave (New York Times Video Library)
Harry Houdini was quite a character. Not only was he one of the most heralded magicians of his generation, but the mystique surrounding the man grew exponentially when he died on October 31, 1926. Some believed Houdini to be a practitioner of the “dark arts” [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Cemeteries
- Tags: celebrity death, spiritualism
Poe’s Funeral Draws Hundreds
12, Oct 2009Edgar Allan Poe Finally Getting Proper Funeral
Ben Nuckols, Associated Press (October 6, 2009)
The late Edgar Allan Poe had a memorial service Sunday, October 11, in Baltimore, Maryland. Yes, that late Edgar Allan Poe—the beloved American writer of the macabre who has been dead for 160 years.
Hundreds of mourners in period dress, including Alfred Hitchcock and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, memorializing
Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on Twitter
Elsa Kim and Sam Gilbert with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff
Web Ecology Project (August 18, 2009)
via Fast Company, “Has Twitter Handicapped Our Ability to Mourn?”
(Dan Macsai, August 20, 2009)
It was bound to happen, in fact, I’m surprised it took this long — [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture| Death + the Web| Grief + Mourning
- Tags: celebrity death, research, twitter
Pocket Cemetery, the Breakfast Bar of Grief
6, Jul 2009Bereaving the latest celebrity death, or perhaps your dog? Need an on-the-go cemetery for your on-the-go life? Want to pay $2.99 to type “RIP” and click send into an unread utter void, also known as the Prayer function? There’s an app for that.
Pocket Cemetery for the iPhone allows you to inscribe virtual tombstones [...]