CarrollBlog 9.20

this is terrific:

for those unfamiliar with it, the Iditarod is the famous dogsled race in Alaska

1989

By Ron Koertge

Because AIDS was slaughtering people left and right,

I went to a lot of memorial services that year.

There were so many, I'd pencil them in between

a movie or a sale at Macy's. The other thing that

made them tolerable was the funny stories people

got up and told about the deceased: the time he

hurled a mushroom frittata across a crowded room,

those ...