Since the status of actual content is still kind of up in the air, I thought I’d fill in the gaps by linking to some songs that seem…fitting. Or, at least, songs that are on my playlist for times like this.
My friend Pat Cadigan first introduced me to this song, and that’s one of many things I owe her a great debt for.
Here are the obituaries for my stepfather: HouChron and Statesman. Both are basically the same, as we provided the obit to the funeral home, and they, in turn, provided the obit to the two papers. (We ran it in both the Houston and Austin papers because he has family in Houston.)
I did not get a figure on the HouChron, but the Statesman charged approximately $46 a column inch (there are roughly 40 words in a column inch, according to the funeral home) to run the obit, with an extra charge of $86 if you wanted to run a photo with it.
Edited to add: Actually, it was $42.56 per column inch, and $85.12 for each photo.
George Blanda, the man who led the Houston Oilers to two championships.
That’s the Houston Oilers of the AFL, by the way.