Wolfeboro, N.H (AP) -- Gertrude Procnow, a 110-year-old resident of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire who had remained mentally sharp through her final years, died on Tuesday night at her home, and doctors say her continued perspicacity was enough that she was fully able to grasp the final horror of her own imminent passing.

"Oh my God," she said in her last minutes. "It's all horribly, horribly vivid! Oh Jesus, why couldn't I have been spared the agony of knowing?"

Her children and relatives said that "Grandma Gertie," as she was known, exhibited a quick wit her whole life, and even in her past few years, enjoyed doing complicated puzzles, acrostics and rebuses.

"You'd always see Aunt Gertie with some IQ book, keeping herself in great fettle," said nephew Ray Simeon.

"Oh mother of Jesus in purgatory, why did I do all those idiotic puzzles," Gertrude was heard to say. "Now the body dies and the brain lives. I'm like the disembodied head in that movie. I cannot live. I cannot die. Oh, the horror! The horror!"

Said her daughter Rosemary Starkweather, "Mother wasn't just a passive reader, either. She was always up for a lively debate, and would argue you to pieces on any topic with that great silver tongue."

"Oh great scion of Moses, please let the sweet, sweet dementia come visit me now like the dove of Gabriel and relieve me of this bedeviling lucidity," said Gertrude, only barely audible to her family.

"Mom didn't want any drugs," said Starkweather. "She always valued her mind and said to me long long ago that a person's wit and intellect were the possessions to be most prized, and those were the values she imparted to us when she said she wanted absolutely no analgesics."

Gertrude was a huge connoisseur of fish all her life and called it her brain food. "Always eat your salmon," she told her grandchildren Mitch and Todd.

"We'd always make a face," Todd says now. "But seeing how strong it made Grandma Gertrude's mind, I guess we could afford to hold our noses a little. Though now that I think about it, I should also mention that Grandma Gertrude was pretty good at holding grudges. She had some going back to 1927, and when we said, 'Grandma, can't you just let it go?' she'd answer, 'I'm going to out live all of you because I remember everything. Every last little thing you all did."

"Every minute is so bitterly clear before my eyes," said Gertrude in her final moments. "And here my husband Charlie went quietly in his sleep without a thought in his head. That shitbird couldn't find his asshole with a hand snake."

The doctors who reviewed Gertrude's brain, after she had donated it to science, said afterward that there had been no narrowing of the arteries and few malformations. She continued to have the mind of a 60-year-old well into her hundreds.

"I thought my wit would save me," said Gertrude. "I thought I was smarter than death. Oh, here it comes, now, and pitiful me, I am  ironically able to grasp its enormity in full! Oh God, why did I read all those books? Where was I going with that?"

"I know that no matter what mom was feeling," said Starkweather, "that her dedication to reading a book a day, doing puzzles, learning about new concepts,  whetting her sharp wit ... basically making her brain the strongest muscle in her body ... will be an inspiration to many who believe the mind can triumph over age."

"I curse you all, living in your dumb happiness, oblivious to existential dread and the confrontation with nothingness," beloved Grandma Gertrude whispered to her family. "May your stupidity cover you like a warm blanket in your horrible benighted, unknowing lives. You poor, pitiful god damn wretches!"

From Eric Rasmussen's blog at www.myspace.com/ericandsalo

Seriously, I have no idea what I am doing yet, it's an experiment!  But how cool is this.....PodCasts of The Retributioners!!!!

I got this cool banner I just post all over cyber-town, and folks can download my show onto their iPods!  At least that's what I THINK it does?  What the hell does this thing do???  Seriously, it's all new to me.  Help!!!

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Hi all, I just uploaded a film Eric did a little while back called Scrabble Rousers.   A swinger couple tries to seduce two nerds while playing a sexy Scrabble game.  We're still editing Episode 5, so we thought you might enjoy this in the meantime.  I literally JUST uploaded it, so it's still getting all formatted and such on FOD.  It should be up in a few minutes.

Love you guys! - stephanie

Well, we're shooting Episode 5 tomorrow, and I'm scared out of my wits!  The weather might suck, and I'm just hoping it's funny, if not funnier, than the others.

We start at 7:45 in the morning.  So, you know the crew hates me already.  And we're working with some new PAs.

I'll tell you how it all goes....

steph

Hi everybody! I wanted to give you a Retributioners update!

We just got featured in a brand new online magazine called "Funny Not Slutty." It features comedy for women created by female producers, writers, humorists, and comedians.


We are on the front page of the first edition!

It looks like it will be great place to discover female comedic talent all over the U.S. They have a forum, announcements, etc. It's BRAND NEW, so not much content on their yet. However, I am imagine it will be very popular.

Here is the link:

http://www. funnynotslutty. com/

Also, we are in the process of creating Episode 5. It's taken us a bit longer than we thought, because we're having issues with scheduling and locations.

We hope to have it up VERY shortly!

Feel free to drop me a line! - steph

This has been such a strange week.  Eric and I are finally settled in the new apartment.  I really like it!  It has so many perks.

But now what?  It’s so hard switching gears again.  Makes me a little depressed.  Last week we tried shooting a ’quickie’ Episode 4, but neither one of us were happy with the results.  So we have a choice.....do a reshoot, or, do as we originally planned....shoot a REAL, full-length episode... not the quickie.  This is a tough choice. 

Eric is going to be busy with his work, so he can’t focus on this problem until later in the week.

Let me switch gears for a moment....I’m really worried about what’s going to happen come June 30th.  With AFTRA pulling out of "Phase One" we now have a true war between SAG and AFTRA.  This is going to make things really complicated in the next few months regarding negotiations for the TV/Theatrical Contract.  The war between SAG & AFTRA could contribute to a possible actors’ strike July 1st.  We all know the BILLIONS of dollars lost during the WGA strike. 

"The Retributioners" is under a SAG Internet Contract, which has me worried.  If there is a SAG strike on July 1st, this could mean trouble for our show.  Then again, maybe not.......the internet is still quite new to the whole union thing, so I wonder what will happen.

Let’s all cross our fingers and hope things go well over the next few months.

I know a whole bunch of you who are not actors who are probably wondering what I am talking about, or need some more context, so let me give you a link which summarizes it:

http://www.nbc11.com/news/15745375/detail.html?rss=bay&psp=news

steph