# "Queen of the Dead" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168 "2011-11-07T14:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/1 "2011-11-07T14:30:51Z")
I hope it is not _de trop_ to post a link to my weekly column, **The Queen of the Dead** , here: [Eve Golden: Queen of the Dead |](http://ladailymirror.com/2011/11/07/eve-golden-queen-of-the-dead-21/) Every Monday I write about the week’s most interesting (well, to me, anyway) obituaries. No one makes a cent off of it, so I hope linking is okay–thought some of you folks might find it interesting. It’s part of Larry Harnisch’s _Daily Mirror_ blog ([http://ladailymirror.com/](http://ladailymirror.com/)). Larry was an\* L.A. Times\* reporter for 40-some years, and writes about local history. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/2 "2011-11-07T16:29:17Z")
Holy Hannah, Syms and Filene’s Basement went under? Who’s gonna fund the Channel 13 movie now? And they had the Swingle Singers or some equivalent singing during their spot. Bummer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/3 "2011-11-07T20:11:54Z")
I really must get out of this economic crisis and buy some of your books. You certainly can write. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/4 "2011-11-07T21:09:24Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I really must get out of this economic crisis and buy some of your books. You certainly can write. Aren’t you sweet! Try bookfinder.com–I won’t make any money on it, but you can get books real cheap there. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/5 "2011-11-08T02:28:40Z")
Love it, and thank you! I don’t tell many people, but I find reading obituaries very interesting. One of the neatest I ever saw was of a local man who died two days before his 100th birthday. It was a pretty standard obituary up until the very last line. This went _“The party scheduled for his 100th birthday will go on as scheduled”_ THIS is the way I’d want to go out, with a party, not a solemn wake!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/6 "2011-11-08T05:05:47Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Aren’t you sweet! Try bookfinder.com–I won’t make any money on it, but you can get books real cheap there. Any idea when the John Gilbert book will be released? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/7 "2011-11-08T15:08:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Any idea when the John Gilbert book will be released? May 2013. It’s due at my publisher’s in May 2012, and I am \*just \*beginning to panic a wee bit. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/8 "2011-11-08T15:10:23Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I don’t tell many people, but I find reading obituaries very interesting. I \*love \*obits: mini-biographies and social history. I have been clipping and saving them since I was eight years old (I can tell by the earliest dates on them). Have a four-drawer filing cabinet packed with obits (friends from around the world send me choice ones now, too). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/9 "2011-11-08T17:48:02Z")
Eve, I’m sure you’ve heard Tom Lehrer’s _“Alma”_. He prefaced it by saying how _“Last December 13th there appeared in the newspaper the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.”_ He went on to tell about the life of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, and the life she lived. Done to waltz time of course. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/10 "2011-11-08T19:02:11Z")
The gold standard for obits is _The Telegraph_: [Obituaries - The Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/) Funny, fascinating, witty. I know they get my obits from work, my \*dream \*would be to write for them someday. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/11 "2011-11-08T19:39:16Z")
I hate it when people sign up for this board solely to promote their projects. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/12 "2011-11-08T19:58:18Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I hate it when people sign up for this board solely to promote their projects. I been waitin’ and sneakin’ for twelve years, but–\*gotcha ya! \* ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/13 "2011-11-08T20:06:41Z")
Regardless of motives, I appreciate yet another ADD distraction that makes me smile. Sort of like awsome commercials, they just want to sell me something, but they add to fractal-like thought pattern that I indulge in. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-of-the-dead/602168/14 "2011-11-08T20:10:12Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > Regardless of motives . . . Oh, I know \*\*Chessic \*\*is just joshin’, I’ve been around here \*forever \*and just recently mentioned two things I am working on.