Two men, one elderly and one middle-aged, stand outside with their arms around each other's shoulders. The younger man is smiling and the older man is waving with a cigarette between his fingertips.

When Robert Adolph Boehm died on Oct. 6 at age 74, his son decided to honour his memory by writing an obituary as chaotic, irreverent and expletive-laden as his father was in life.