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28164. alIstaIrcOnnOr - 8/21/2014 1:52:31 PM Good grief CharlieL!! It's been far too long!
Um did I mention I've taken up singing?
No?
Then I won't mention it... 28165. NuPlanetOne - 8/22/2014 6:29:55 AM Wow. Irv. Gone. Like CharlieL I too jumped into the fray way back in 95. Good to see psuedo and other familiar names still popping in and out. Almost 20 years! lol Anyway, here's to those we once counted as friends and followed intently! 28166. CharlieL - 8/22/2014 12:30:40 PM Hi, Christine, arky, Alistair. We're doing great. My dad still lives with us, he turned 89 back in April and is still doing pretty well.
Brenda and I saw Bruce Cockburn last night. A great show, and afterwards he came out to meet people and sign sutographs. He's a very nice person.
Alistair, what are you dinging? (I know, songs) 28167. don s. - 8/23/2014 12:56:18 AM Just saw the news about Irv. Very sad. I found myself thinking about him from time to time and wondering whether he was online anywhere. I still have the koteka he brought me from Bali. One of my all-time favorite Internet people. 28168. judithathome - 8/23/2014 10:05:52 PM Wow...he only gave me a fierce looking god to keep evil spirits away....ha! 28169. arkymalarky - 8/24/2014 2:23:00 AM I have two sarongs. I need to wear them. I'm going to do that next week. He was so thoughtful™. 28170. bhelpuri - 8/24/2014 11:56:24 AM trouserpilot!
It's amazing how many people Irv met in real life...and let's remember here he lived in Indonesia! One more reminder that he was one of a kind in so many ways, my heart really goes out to Pak Gurubesar and family. 28171. wabbit - 8/24/2014 4:21:34 PM I have two paintings, look at them all the time and remember what a kind man Irv was.
Good to see everyone again! 28172. arkymalarky - 8/24/2014 4:39:22 PM TP! I was trying to connect don s and was planning to lookin the archives. I hope you're well! Do you know how Elliot is doing? 28173. CharlieL - 8/26/2014 4:15:57 PM arky, you do know that two sarongs don't make a right, don't you? 28174. judithathome - 8/26/2014 5:13:26 PM Groan! I love it!! ;-) 28175. CharlieL - 8/26/2014 5:18:19 PM Hi, Judith! 28176. arkymalarky - 8/26/2014 9:41:59 PM Haha! You're punny! 28177. judithathome - 8/27/2014 5:44:04 PM Hey, Charlie! Stick around...never know who you'll run into! 28178. don s. - 8/28/2014 6:03:36 AM I think that's what he's afraid of.
arkymalarky, I haven't run into Elliot in years. Actually, the last time was in the early 2000s, when he had just become a U.S. citizen and was looking forward to voting in his first election. I'm going to say that election was 2004. Lot of good it did. 28179. arkymalarky - 8/28/2014 6:22:14 PM He must've helped in 2008. 28180. ScottLoar - 9/3/2014 1:01:04 AM I don’t know why, suddenly on this Monday Labor Day evening in Shanghai I was moved to look to The Mote, which I hadn’t done in years and years, and then to see that Fray Vader had passed - no, wait, surely not Irving Snodgrass? And there, yes, the notes that he died. No, no, I knew this man, I visited him in Jakarta, had dinner at his house, had seen him and his children, wife, I knew this man...
How can this be? I look around without seeing and wonder, how can this be? The man was very much the greater part of The Fray, the instance - really nothing more than a few moments in the timeline of things - when I was at my peak, in my prime, and could spend hours invigorated by the exchanges coming fast and strong over the internet, turning left and right, a parry here a thrust there, moved to defense then attack like some improbable swordsman from a Hollwood 1930’s swashbuckler so furious was that intellectual exchange. I’ve never had anything like it, no such exhilaration.
And now Irving is gone. How can this be? And, I know the simple fact that he’s gone is the last act of The Fray. I’m more than sad to see the final close, especially so in this way by the simple fact - Irving Snodgrass is gone.
So sad. 28181. arkymalarky - 9/3/2014 2:19:14 AM "The man was very much the greater part of The Fray, the instance - really nothing more than a few moments in the timeline of things - when I was at my peak, in my prime, and could spend hours invigorated by the exchanges coming fast and strong over the internet, turning left and right, a parry here a thrust there, moved to defense then attack like some improbable swordsman from a Hollwood 1930’s swashbuckler so furious was that intellectual exchange. I’ve never had anything like it, no such exhilaration."
That really beautifully captures the essence of what is gone and what Irv was to the Fray. 28182. judithathome - 9/3/2014 5:05:56 PM Indeed. 28183. bhelpuri - 9/4/2014 5:04:53 AM Loar!
A very nice tribute + reminiscence of an Internet time and experience that seems near-fictional, but yes did exist.
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