dead horse

As the story of the Coldplay kiss-cam couple ducks out of camera range and into history, and we ride that dead horse into the sunset, let us take a moment to examine what the internet hath wrought.

Standing near the ledge of a magnificent canyon in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park in the hours before sunset, my fiancée Gia and I looked each other in the eyes as we read our vows.

We had originally planned for Canyonlands rather than Dead Horse Point — not because of the unromantic name but because we’d never heard of it.

But Flynn explained that the national park had more restrictions and less privacy while Dead Horse offered equally monumental vistas.

It’s also largely responsible for the smell of the delicately-named dead horse arum, a relative of the so-called corpse flower, or titan arum.