A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I was upset about Gus's death.
If he was not real, I am sorry that someone I liked so much would choose to deceive us like this, but glad that I got to spend some time in his company.
I knew a sweet woman who was a pathological liar when I lived in NC. She made many claims to my group of friends that proved to be untrue, for reasons of her own. None of her claims changed the way I saw her, but when the truth came out - quietly, and in the back channels, so as not to lead her to fake an emergency and disappear, as her former roommates said she did when they questioned her stories - I was mostly sorry that she had this weird ontological disease that we could never mention or treat.
Anyway, as my pseud would tell any googler, I'm actually not a person, but the record company of the formerly reclusive artist Jandek. Although I've met only a few active Buffistas, I am friendly with a number of ex-Buffistas, who support my existence in email.
Am I the only person who's met both Liese
and
Corwood?
Hee. Eighth inch to split RCA with quarter-inch adapters, baybee.
I'd forgotten about that, roomie! Also saving the day in Chicago was Tommyrot, who ran to his office to grab a computer power cord when we discovered that the PA rental company had forgotten to give us one.
I have met both Liese and Corwood. However, I doubt Jon B's existence even though I've met him too.
Jon B. is an illusion done with light and silver pleather.
Totally off topic, Jon B were you playing at First Night? I swear I saw you on tv.
Yes, I was! I'm amazed you spotted me; I was only on the TV for a few seconds, although, if you were listening carefully, you could hear me playing Auld Lang Syne in the background as the TV folks were doing the countdown.
I was only on the TV for a few seconds
Mom and dad have a DVR, and I made dad rewind and rewatch it about 30 times. Somehow the end of that post didn't register in my brain. That's so cool! Go you guys!
VW, yes, I believe he was. I meant to note where it was (since there were several performances) but as usual I totally spaced.
One thing I was thinking of in the wee hours of last night was the Kubler-Ross stages of grief:
- Shock stage: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news.
- Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable.
- Anger stage: Frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion.
- Bargaining stage: Seeking in vain for a way out.
- Depression stage: Final realization of the inevitable.
- Testing stage: Seeking realistic solutions.
- Acceptance stage: Finally finding the way forward.
More at this web site
I think with the unanswered questions with Gus's identity a lot of us are floundering with denial, anger, and bargaining.
I made dad rewind and rewatch it about 30 times.
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who did that. ;)
Just a couple notes, without relinquishing my basic neutrality on the subject.
I think there's a limit to how well you know someone if you only know them on the Web. Obviously, whatever was true or not true about Gus, there's a whole lot about him we didn't know. This doesn't surprise me, nor does it upset me. We all have our secrets.
Second, while I'm not willing to do it myself, if someone's going to do an online search, I'd suggest looking up the phone number listed on WHOIS and running it through US Search, and paying the $14.95. I've used it before and it works well.
If nothing else, a proper name and address will help those who wish to find funeral announcements (which are generally published free, even when obits aren't) and apply their charitable instincts properly.
