Ms. Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat, explains she's a bit of a magnetic North Pole when it comes to attracting knowledge of obituary Web sites. She says they find her.
I'm sure this explains some of it, but I also imagine her to be in an Internet control tower monitoring obituary sites coming in for a landing. A patient character in the movie Heat explains to master thief DeNiro that the bank intelligence he just sold him is available in the air, "You just have to know how to grab it."
Take the latest site, referenced in the title, that she says has just appeared on the scene. Quite honestly, I don't know what to make of it. Too soon to tell, might be the best thing to say. But there is at least one immediate wry, linked observation, complete with a photo, of cars parked for Wimbledon in a nearby parish cemetery, quite adjacent to the departed.
The immediate excuse offered is that the cars were directed to park near graves of people who have been gone for quite some time now, with the hope that no one connected to the departed is also viewing a match. At least in person.
The story is worth checking out. The logic is fully what you'd expect from the English, but it does attract enough attention that the whole arrangement is abandoned. So, respect eventually wins.
It does offer some further insight into Wimbledon and the British. This isn't London, and the cemetery is a mile from Centre Court, but it is completely unlikely anyone would get directed to park in a Queens cemetery in New York for the U.S. Open.
The reason is simple: No one in New York would be willing to walk a mile to an event no matter how safe the parking.
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