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27993. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:34:51 AM a millennial 27994. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:35:05 AM in the cafe 27995. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:35:29 AM well I'm enjoying life on the porch 27996. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:35:48 AM listening to the frogs and crickets 27997. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:36:01 AM after such a wonderful day 27998. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:36:17 AM even though it involved a long shop at Walmart 27999. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:36:30 AM is the 28000. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:36:54 AM cherry on top of the cream cheese frosting of the black forest cake 28001. arkymalarky - 6/4/2014 3:37:19 AM yay me! 28002. Ms. No - 6/4/2014 5:17:25 AM Woo-hoo! 28003. PsychProf - 6/10/2014 12:25:08 PM Irv Snodgrass passed away June 9...he was such a fine man, the best life has to offer. 28004. lemwalker - 6/10/2014 1:19:30 PM Well that causes sadness. Yes Scott was a lot of fun. We went to a Thai restaurant and he shocked the staff by ordering our food in their language. I had always hoped to see him again. Guess that will have to wait. 28005. Ms. No - 6/10/2014 4:29:05 PM Although it's been years, I still feel a loss. I only got to meet him in person once -- at the Great Fray Gathering -- but I'm saddened to know he's no longer with us. 28006. arkymalarky - 6/10/2014 5:57:08 PM Oh how sad! I never did get to meet him. A lot of great memories, and I'm so sorry to hear it. Thank you for letting us know PP. 28007. wabbit - 6/10/2014 8:16:39 PM Oh Prof, what sad news, I am so sorry to hear this. I haven't seen him since the Florida trip, and we had such fun in Seattle and when we met up in NYC. He was such a good person, I learned a lot from him. He will be missed by many. 28008. judithathome - 6/10/2014 11:52:22 PM Certainly by Keoni and me...we spent a week with him one evening in Dallas...it felt like we covered enough ground for it to have been that long, anyhow.
He's part of the universe and all of us now. 28009. bhelpuri - 6/13/2014 12:20:38 PM Wow, that sucks. Rest in Peace, Irva.
More than anyone else - by far - it was the Snod who created, fostered, and shepherded this very real online community. It catalyzed around him, took many essential cues from the way he went about representing IrvingSnodgrass. Big guy with a big heart, one of a kind. 28010. wabbit - 6/13/2014 1:57:30 PM 
Irv Snodgrass and Psych Prof (thanks for sending and sharing PP!)
28011. arkymalarky - 6/13/2014 3:01:17 PM Love that picture. Captures two wonderful people and their wonderful personalities. 28012. arkymalarky - 6/13/2014 3:30:26 PM You're right Bhel. And the focus was always on the community, never on himself. There has been so much development online since the Fray started, and there are a lot of great discussions to be found in a lot of online sites, but I've never seen anything resembling the dynamic the Fray had. Mostly, whatever the format or rules or participants, to me either it's an ocean or a cesspool of fish eating other fish, and I just don't enjoy digging through the sludge or vast salty water looking for gold any more. I very much enjoy the Mote as long as this lasts or as each of us drops off the conveyer belt, as Dad calls it. A small close community of old friends is hard to grow, much less maintain, but I'm so glad I dropped into the Fray and Irv was the gracious host so many years ago, and that Alistair and Wabbit have kept a fire in the hearth for so long. Even with my discovery of room escape games a few years ago, it's still my favorite place to visit on the web.
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