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Just bought tickets for Lady Neige and me to the "****-comfort" festival organised by German Rolling Stone magazine in November.
The line-up currently includes The Flaming Lips, Ryan Adams, John Grant, Father John Misty, The Decemberists, Nada Surf, Motorpsycho, White Denim, Ryley Walker, Ben Watt, Car Seat Headrest, Anna Calvi, with more to come...
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The line-up currently includes The Flaming Lips, Ryan Adams, John Grant, Father John Misty, The Decemberists, Nada Surf, Motorpsycho, White Denim, Ryley Walker, Ben Watt, Car Seat Headrest, Anna Calvi, with more to come...
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Ray, it’s so weird you write that today. I was book shopping this morning and saw a copy of Not All Tarts are Apple and it led me to read a little bit about her.
I often think about how I would carry on in the sudden absence of the great love of my life and my answer is usually, I wouldn’t do very well. I understand also wanting to reach out to people who remember ‘ a certain part’ of your life -moving abroad has made that both important and difficult to me, and I’ve had to accept that other people can’t always be as present as they once were.
I hope you’re feeling better soon. A good cry is always good .
I often think about how I would carry on in the sudden absence of the great love of my life and my answer is usually, I wouldn’t do very well. I understand also wanting to reach out to people who remember ‘ a certain part’ of your life -moving abroad has made that both important and difficult to me, and I’ve had to accept that other people can’t always be as present as they once were.
I hope you’re feeling better soon. A good cry is always good .
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Tough day. I had a day off work and got a phone call at lunch time to say that a member of my team had died yesterday afternoon. I went in, had to help break the news to his colleagues, phone his dad and phone other colleagues that were not in work. Everyone is obviously shocked and saddened and I feel totally wiped out.
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Jesus Hugh. Sorry
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Hugh wrote:Tough day. I had a day off work and got a phone call at lunch time to say that a member of my team had died yesterday afternoon. I went in, had to help break the news to his colleagues, phone his dad and phone other colleagues that were not in work. Everyone is obviously shocked and saddened and I feel totally wiped out.
That is awful. I'm really sorry to hear it. Work deaths are a very different sort of thing to friends and family.
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Not wanting to overdo the sad sentiment, but the death of my friend really hit me today. We buried him on Monday and there was a huge turnout to see him off. I think most people realised that his passing was inevitable given his lifestyle, but there have just been a few aspects of my relationship with him that bounce around my digital life that are present but not if that makes sense. Alongside my wife he was pretty much the only person I used Whatsapp with - if not every day, we'd have a continuous conservation based on silly stuff. So if I open it, I see the last message I sent to him which was read. Or if I'm on FB I get adverts saying "XXX likes XXX". It's quite jarring.
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Toby wrote:Not wanting to overdo the sad sentiment, but the death of my friend really hit me today. We buried him on Monday and there was a huge turnout to see him off. I think most people realised that his passing was inevitable given his lifestyle, but there have just been a few aspects of my relationship with him that bounce around my digital life that are present but not if that makes sense. Alongside my wife he was pretty much the only person I used Whatsapp with - if not every day, we'd have a continuous conservation based on silly stuff. So if I open it, I see the last message I sent to him which was read. Or if I'm on FB I get adverts saying "XXX likes XXX". It's quite jarring.
Sorry to hear that Toby. Losing friends in this part of our lives is so grim.
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I would like to say something uplifting but I’m analysing autopsy photos.
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Toby wrote:Not wanting to overdo the sad sentiment, but the death of my friend really hit me today. We buried him on Monday and there was a huge turnout to see him off. I think most people realised that his passing was inevitable given his lifestyle, but there have just been a few aspects of my relationship with him that bounce around my digital life that are present but not if that makes sense. Alongside my wife he was pretty much the only person I used Whatsapp with - if not every day, we'd have a continuous conservation based on silly stuff. So if I open it, I see the last message I sent to him which was read. Or if I'm on FB I get adverts saying "XXX likes XXX". It's quite jarring.
Stuff like that is jarring, isn't it? If I get the answering machine when I phone my mom, the outgoing message is one my dad recorded and he's been gone for three years now. I still find it incredibly disconcerting.
Anyway, my thoughts are with you all.
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sloopjohnc wrote:Only 3,667 posts shy of Pete for first place. There must be some kind of docking system of handicap for being such a big cunt.
But that count doesn't include his Prince of Pies posts, does it?
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Absolutely fucking fuming.
For those who remember, I posted 3 months ago (almost to the day) that my dad had died after an aneurysm. I've got a brother who lives a good three or four hours drive away in Newport in Wales. At Easter bank holiday, he was meant to come up visiting my mum for the weekend with his son, but his car 'unexpectedly' failed. I was fuming then, but was talked out of giving him a load of abuse. He rescheduled to this weekend, and he couldn't even be bothered phoning my mum to say he wasn't coming. He's sent her a text message today, an hour ago, after I texted him asking what was going on. He can't make it because he's got no-one to look after the cat. Despite having a wife who deosn't work, and two step-daughters living nearby. Three months after his dad died, he's made no effort to come up, not offered to get mum train tickets to go down to see her grandson, nothing.
I can't be alone in thinking that's a fucking disgrace, can I? Seriously? I always thought he was a fairly decent if lazy bloke before, but this is beyond the pale. Mum's asked me not to contact him, but I'm so tempted to tell him what I think. Really want to just let him know that I think he's a piece of shit right now.
For those who remember, I posted 3 months ago (almost to the day) that my dad had died after an aneurysm. I've got a brother who lives a good three or four hours drive away in Newport in Wales. At Easter bank holiday, he was meant to come up visiting my mum for the weekend with his son, but his car 'unexpectedly' failed. I was fuming then, but was talked out of giving him a load of abuse. He rescheduled to this weekend, and he couldn't even be bothered phoning my mum to say he wasn't coming. He's sent her a text message today, an hour ago, after I texted him asking what was going on. He can't make it because he's got no-one to look after the cat. Despite having a wife who deosn't work, and two step-daughters living nearby. Three months after his dad died, he's made no effort to come up, not offered to get mum train tickets to go down to see her grandson, nothing.
I can't be alone in thinking that's a fucking disgrace, can I? Seriously? I always thought he was a fairly decent if lazy bloke before, but this is beyond the pale. Mum's asked me not to contact him, but I'm so tempted to tell him what I think. Really want to just let him know that I think he's a piece of shit right now.
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souphound wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:Only 3,667 posts shy of Pete for first place. There must be some kind of docking system of handicap for being such a big cunt.
But that count doesn't include his Prince of Pies posts, does it?
Fuck!
Forgot about those.
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Darkness_Fish wrote:Absolutely fucking fuming.
For those who remember, I posted 3 months ago (almost to the day) that my dad had died after an aneurysm. I've got a brother who lives a good three or four hours drive away in Newport in Wales. At Easter bank holiday, he was meant to come up visiting my mum for the weekend with his son, but his car 'unexpectedly' failed. I was fuming then, but was talked out of giving him a load of abuse. He rescheduled to this weekend, and he couldn't even be bothered phoning my mum to say he wasn't coming. He's sent her a text message today, an hour ago, after I texted him asking what was going on. He can't make it because he's got no-one to look after the cat. Despite having a wife who deosn't work, and two step-daughters living nearby. Three months after his dad died, he's made no effort to come up, not offered to get mum train tickets to go down to see her grandson, nothing.
I can't be alone in thinking that's a fucking disgrace, can I? Seriously? I always thought he was a fairly decent if lazy bloke before, but this is beyond the pale. Mum's asked me not to contact him, but I'm so tempted to tell him what I think. Really want to just let him know that I think he's a piece of shit right now.
And the worst excuse ever, I might add.
I'd leave a cat alone for the weekend before I left my son alone.
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Cat lover that I am, I tend toward the "always think of the cat" side of things, but even I find this absolutely appalling.
My brother tends to not help me care for my mom very much, but he at least has a partial excuse - he lives very far away and is on the autism spectrum so even with good intentions he can be a bit oblivious. But he at least calls her regularly and has come through when really needed - he was on the scene immediately when she first had her stroke, and his wife stayed with her lots in the early stages.
Unless you think it circling back to your mom would cause unwanted grief for her, I say let him have it, full on. No excuse for that whatsoever.
My brother tends to not help me care for my mom very much, but he at least has a partial excuse - he lives very far away and is on the autism spectrum so even with good intentions he can be a bit oblivious. But he at least calls her regularly and has come through when really needed - he was on the scene immediately when she first had her stroke, and his wife stayed with her lots in the early stages.
Unless you think it circling back to your mom would cause unwanted grief for her, I say let him have it, full on. No excuse for that whatsoever.
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Jeemo wrote:13 years today since my Mum passed.
Sorry to hear that, Jim. The other day I was trying to think of the day my mom died, which was around 20 years ago. I tried finding the obituary online, but it must've been somewhat earlier than the net recorded those things online. I remember calling a couple friends I grew up when it happened - all our moms were like a band that kept all us boys out of trouble. When I thought back on why I did that, I think I just wanted people to recognize her life.
My dad wouldn't let my brother and see her in the hospital because she had gone into the hospital with pneumonia (she had Leukemia). She slipped into a coma shortly before he died. I don't blame him - he wanted to keep her away from any germs for whatever reason.
He called me early one Saturday, not unlike today. I was getting ready to go to my weekly pick up basketball game, but he called me and I raced off to the hospital. I watched as she stopped breathing. My dad kissed her on the forehead and whispered, "Good bye, Johanna." Johanna was what my dad and her Swedish parents, my grandparents, called her.
I remember going home after, crying the whole way back across the Bay.
My brother was my dad's son in lots of ways and I was a mama's boy, we were closer in temperament and interests in common. My dad knew this and when he felt like he was going to pass, he told me to help my brother, because as he said it, "Your brother is going to take it hard. Like you did with your mom."
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On more mundane matters, I cracked a lower right tooth and have to get it extracted. Probably have to get a fake tooth to replace it, which means having an operation to put a post in where they have to insert it in my jawbone, wait three months, and then get the fake tooth put in.
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