I feel like I need to set something on fire in my yard this weekend, for Connie. She needs a viking-style memorial.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Nov 01, 2019 3:30:20 am PDT #12917 of 30019
information libertarian
Amy - Nov 01, 2019 3:50:00 am PDT #12918 of 30019
Because books.
You know, that's a really good idea. Except possibly for Atropa.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 01, 2019 3:55:47 am PDT #12919 of 30019
What is even happening?
I was thinking we don't have Connie's husband to keep the fire under control.
I'm so sorry to hear of her passing. Thanks for sharing the family's messages, Java cat. They are very sweet.
I seem to recall Connie and Elena were good friends. I suppose they were probably connected on FB already. I was just wondering if we should try to let any of the diaspora know.
Is anyone still in touch with vw bug?
Amy - Nov 01, 2019 4:00:30 am PDT #12920 of 30019
Because books.
Yes, on Facebook, Cindy.
DXMachina - Nov 01, 2019 4:02:50 am PDT #12921 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Man, that's a shame. Connie was cool.
Steph L. - Nov 01, 2019 4:13:02 am PDT #12922 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Oh, god damn it. Three weeks ago? Fuck Facebook's shitty algorithms.
I am really going to miss her.
Fiona - Nov 01, 2019 4:20:25 am PDT #12923 of 30019
Very sad about Connie. It seems terribly unfair, somehow.
DavidS - Nov 01, 2019 4:49:01 am PDT #12924 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sad and stunned about Connie.
Thank you, Java, for checking and telling us.
I feel like I need to set something on fire in my yard this weekend, for Connie. She needs a viking-style memorial.
She would love that I think.
I wonder if Amy Parker knows.
Connie was my age. I had actually just posted something on her wall on FB recently. Wildlife cam in Pennsylvania.
As others have noted, it was sweet watching her discover that she was allowed to have fun again, and traipse off to Vegas once a year.
After Fellowship came out, I came across a lonely Eowyn action figure in the cut-out bin at Target and I bought it for her on impulse and sent it to her. Though we both had some qualms about Miranda Otto's performance, I was always heartened to to see that she used Miranda-as-Eowyn as her FB icon.
I remember her exasperation at her annual review every year where she'd get top marks in all categories and then they'd ask her what she planned to do to further her career. "Nothing! I don't want to move up or on or over! Just let me do my damn job!"
I remember how much she and her husband loved scandalizing the neighbors by beheading and limb-lopping snow men with their broadswords.
I remember her spider fear was so great she pulled her husband's gun on one, and almost blew a hole in the wall.
How she'd found her tribe with SCA. And with us.
Another thread pulled out of our fraying weave.
Laura - Nov 01, 2019 4:54:23 am PDT #12925 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Such sad news. Yes, she was just finding her place in the world without her DH. Frankly, after the long suffering she helped him endure, I believe she would have preferred the sudden heart attack option. RIP, Connie.
DavidS - Nov 01, 2019 5:05:00 am PDT #12926 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. Looking at her timeline on FB I had shared something about Viking swords with her on Oct. 12th and I do remember being surprised that she didn't "like" it or respond. And yet I didn't see the death notice directly under it from Oct. 10th.
As a community we dodged mortality for quite a long time. And now we have a litany of names.