PART SEVEN
Salon
26 November 2001
3) findagrave.com. It was Connie Nisinger, a high school librarian in the Midwest, who decided that this interesting site needed a picture of the final resting place of Billy Lyons, shot dead in St. Louis on Christmas Day, 1895, his corpse kicked through time ever after in the countless versions of “Stag-o-lee,” “Stacker Lee” and “Stagger Lee.” Click “Search by name,” type in “William Lyons,” and there is Lyons’s plot in St. Peter’s Cemetery in St. Louis, sec. 5, lot 289. The site allows you to “Leave flowers and a note for this person”: keep clicking and you can leave a cigar or a beer instead. Advertising bars include “Contact Your High School Classmates”—to find their graves?
Salon
10 December 2001
10) Cameron Crowe: director, Vanilla Sky (DreamWorks/Paramount). Charles Taylor writes: “In Vanilla Sky, the Cruizesuzs, Tom and Penelope, recreate the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. May God have mercy on us all.”