Obituary

I think I've seen most of it.

Okay, and then we've got Crinkle for an Obituary.

Here we go, yeah.

I'm looking up some of these movies right now.

Welcome back to Obituary.

I'm Spencer Henry.

And I'm Madison Reyes.

And of course, on the newsletter front, these past few episodes, here's what I wrote in October.

Issue number 55 was the obituary of Mike Kim.

I wrote my own obituary back in April.

Mortality was on my mind with all these people passing in my family.

And so this idea seemed to resonate with readers.

I guess, yeah.

I'll write something called Obituary.

You write

that.

And when I saw it, I said, oh, really? And tracked it down.

And yes, the, we'll call him tech journalist and provocateur, Robert X. Cringely passed his real name was mark stevens he passed away earlier this month we will link out to the obituary as well as his recent blogging work uh you probably best remember him for his work on triumph of the nerds which was a hallmark video from the early internet era but he you know wrote tons and tons and tons of articles for lots and lots and lots of different publications uh both under the the pseudonym that he lost control of and then regained control of as well as other names so If you're unfamiliar with his work, good time to dive into there.

Less caustic than John Dvorak, who I also memorialized earlier this year, but definitely edgy in his own way.

Sensi Soccer, which is according to many the definitive 16-bit football game, is now on the C64.

While death is no laughing matter, some petty last words can provide some pretty entertaining comic relief.

Welcome to Obituary.

Welcome back to Obituary.

I'm Anne Boleyn and joining me is my former bloat of a whale husband.

Oh, Annie.

It is I, King Henry VIII, ruler of England.

Oh, darling.

And today I don't want to talk about my love life, because I've already, in an earlier episode of Obituary...

while death is no laughing matter some petty last words can provide some pretty entertaining comic relief

welcome to obituary Welcome back to Obituary.

I'm Spencer Henry.

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But very honest.

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Okay, with John Franklin Stevens, Obituary is the short film played at the Comedy Festival.

It's 14 minutes long.

Uh, you are the director, you're the writer.

I, [clears throat] I, um, I started off, uh, doing stage and, uh, had a very fruitful career there.

But, uh, this has been a really, really long time coming.

I've always wanted to start creating films, [clicks tongue] uh, with a lot of my acting students.

So I'm primarily an acting coach, and this-

Okay

Feels very obituary-centric to me, too, my other show, because we've done episodes on botched executions before.

And also because a lot of people are talking about how Krista Pike asked for her last meal to be donated to a homeless shelter to get them pizza or something.

Which reminded me of a story we also talked about on Obituary where we were talking about last meals and famous last meal requests.

And somebody else in the past had asked for their final meal to be giving pizza to a homeless shelter.

And they were denied it.