Well, it looks like grunge officially died yesterday--with a messy shotgun wound to the head. The bloodspattered corpse of Kurt Cobain, leader of the rock band Nirvana, was found dead along with a undisclosed suicide note in his Seattle apartment.

Alternative Boston radio station WFNX (101.7 FM) proclaimed April 8th a day of "mourning" and arranged a Nirvana "A" to "Z" memorial to the punk cult hero. As over-kill, so to speak, they also promised to play a medley of songs by bands that Kurt thought were cool, including the Melvins and the Meat Puppets.

Evidently for those with short attention spans, the disk jockeys repeated the news of the rock star's untimely death every five minutes since yesterday morning, when the story began flashing across the wire.

Between songs our sympathetic deejays carefully advised listeners not to "do anything you might regret later." Instead, we should "light candles" and "put on a pot of tea." Was this New Age grunge etiquette for the deceased?

Our favorite radio personalities also offered information on the upcoming funeral, in case we were "thinking of flying to Seattle." By the way, Seattle is the grunge capital of the world. Even pre-grunge psychedelic hippy Jimi Hendrix is buried there. According to our sources, that's where all the dead rock stars live. As for the funeral, we require advice about which flannel shirts and stocking caps to wear. We checked our collective closets which are desperately lacking anything in black plaid.

As a footnote, we at Darboard discovered that one song was noticeably absent from the WFNX's comprehensive "A" to "Z" play list: the single which appeared on Geffen Records' The Beavis and Butt-head Experience. The title, you ask? I Hate Myself and Want To Die.