On Friday I picked up on a Dave Barry link to a story about how a portable phone went off inside a coffin.

Now, it seems that life, or rather death, was imitating art:

... a very funny 1999 French film (yes, they can be funny, despite their fascination with Jerry Lewis movies) called La Buche began with a scene in which a ringing cell phone at a funeral gets everyone digging their cell phones out until they all realize it's coming from the coffin. I remember laughing out loud when I saw, wondering how long it would be before it happened in real life. Now I know.

Busy weekend. And Monday's stacking up too. So culture vultures may have to feed elsewhere for the next few days.