GOOGA RIP

[The Modernist]

My reasons are...

1. The guy on the right has a Brian Wilsonesque startled 'rabbit caught in the headlights' look about him.
2. I reckon a father would be more likely to sit alongside his son.
3. Finally the cheesecake on the left has been untouched, while the plate on the right has mostly been devoured. Googa liked his cake!
The weight of evidence is on my side!

[Walk In My Shadow]

I rarely come to Nextdoorland so I've just seen this. Damn, like many here I thought he had flounced for a while and would turn up eventually.

His Facebook account shows he had many (over 600) friends there but no picture of him.

Sometimes I defended him and sometimes he irritated me. But he always had something to say and partly kept this forum alive with his posts.

I will miss him more than I can say. He was a real character.


RIP Googs.



I wonder why he had TWO FB accounts?

[Hugh]

Maybe we should start a poll but I think it has to be the guy on the left.

[Walk In My Shadow]

Maybe we should start a poll but I think it has to be the guy on the left.

I read through the posts on that Danish site. A sort of BCB for comics.

There's guys already wondering what will happen to his huge comics collection. Apparently his brother will curate this.

Googs was 61, his brother younger.

[Purgatory Brite]

Very sad news indeed. RIP Googs!

[Matt Wilson]

Geez, just saw this. Now I feel bad. I dunno, I think I'm getting sadder as I get older for some reason. Didn't even really know him, but I feel down.

At least all the people here who posited that he was an alias for years now know he wasn't.

[Rayge]

I wonder why he had TWO FB accounts?

Going by the daes on them, I think he was shut out of one - lost password perhaps - and started another.

[trans-chigley express]

Very sad to hear of this. I know his health wasn't great and he didn't seem to care too much about it, but I never realised he had cancer and surpised he was only 61 as he came across as a decade older. He could be frustrating at times but he was certainly passionate about music even if he seemed to lack an ability to filter the good from the bad. I liked him being around and his absence will be noticed.

RIP Googs.

[trans-chigley express]

You think? I'd put money on it being the fella on the left.

I would too. The beard, unkempt hair and overweight physique seem to fit with how I imagined him, plus he seems to be wearing a T-shirt with a reference to Japan where he once lived.

[copehead]

What sad news.

I, like many others it seems, just assumed he was having a bit of time away from the board again.

I wish I could have kept my passion for popular culture burning as brightly as he obviously did he was passionately engaged right till the end, a true fan.

I hope his various spats on here didn't give him too much pain, he always came back so I hope he had fun posting here.

I think some people just couldn't comprehend his eclectic tastes and his enthusiasm for investigating and owning what for most of us would be ephemera or worse, but it became clear that he was genuinely and passionately interested in pop music.

I think once that had sunk in he got an easier ride

Reading the posts on the comics website was interesting, he was obviously part of communities where his input was cherished, and I think that happened here too, sometimes he seemed to be the only person posting non-prog threads here.

RIP Googa

[mudshark]

...And the music played on...
I'm sure he was a good person.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

I haven’t been here much in the last few years. But was saddened to read this tonight.

You couldn’t make a character like Googs up…

[northernsky]

Very sad to read this.
Farewell to a unique voice on here.
You better believe I’ll be cueing up Wild Honey and necking a six-pack of Cult Cola (world’s strongest cola) in his memory.

[Santa C]

Very sad to read this.
Farewell to a unique voice on here.
You better believe I’ll be cueing up Wild Honey and necking a six-pack of Cult Cola (world’s strongest cola) in his memory.

Nice!

Welcome back lad, even in these sad circumstances

PSL....?




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[sloopjohnc]

I came on here today because I was thinking about Googa last night for some reason. I liked the guy. He seemed like a human version of a big goofy dog with long ears and slobber who you can't help but like even though he'd the slobber all over your shoes or shirt sleeve and he'd always be at the door asking to be let out. He was never mean, at least I don't remember him ever being that way, and that goes a long way in my book as I get older.