Memorialist Gifts

9/11 20th Anniversary

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

"He was a very good boy."

"In hindsight, we shouldn't have had him cremated."

Michael Jackson

'In memory of our beloved Skippy.'

Pet Cemetery.

"I honored her every request except for the last one: 'Harold, please stop making a scene'."

'Forget what?'

I'm currently working on my autobiography. Would you care to help make page 327 interesting?

"Don’t you think it’s about time you stopped insisting on your uncle Bill being here for Christmas?"

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

Veterans Day '20

"We laughed. We cried. But mostly we watched TV."

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

Monument in the park for Squirrel Feeder

'Ol' Pete was an angler to the end.'

'One really nice thing up here is that it's always very easy to get an audience with a Pope.'

Follow me on Twitter...

'Oh, I'm just writing a tender memoir or my long ago affair with J.F.K...it's filled with pathos and sad wishful longing...'

'He never listened to his mother!'

Heavenly Gazette This Heavenly Gazette is awfully thin. There doesn't seem to be a financial section Because you can't take it with you. There's no weather forecast. It's perfect every day. I don't see any sports scores. Everybody's a winner up here. And there are no political reports. Of course not in paradise we don't hear anything about politics!

'There's a little bit of my late husband in every glass - I used his ashes as a fining agent.'

A man in a little rowboat goes to his grave.

You are not forgotten!

Rudy, I loved your memoir. It was fascinating. The way you overcame huge odds to invent the computer. How you went on to protect us from government surveillance. You know none of it's true. The way you swore yourself to humility. People so want to believe a good story.

Statue fishing.

I know they told me not to bark

"He was always loyal and insisted on being buried with his stilts..."

David Bowie: "I don't know where I'm going from here but I promise it won't be boring."

If Other Nations Mourned Like the U.S.

"We prefer to remember him the way he was, before he passed the bar."

Dog Statue

"Everyone is so cynical these days."

Prince, another that knocks Heaven's Doors