When the umpteenth variation of “Dead of the Living Night” comes on television, it’s tempting to deride the caliber of entertainment available today. And I do, but as human beings we’ve always had something of a spotty track record when it comes to spectacle. Imagine a huge tent filled with people waiting for somebody to be shot out of a cannon. Not long ago, that was entertainment. Before that, it was bear-baiting and feeding people to wild animals. Maybe we’ve come further than we think.
Big Shot
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402 responses to “Big Shot”
Ack, that is sad indeed. Williams has been one of my favorite comedians since I first saw him on Happy Days. I actually just watched Popeye again last week.
Goooooodbye, Vietnam!
Goodbye, Robin. He was a funny guy, and I finally did manage to forgive him for “Patch Adams.” Demons, they are everywhere.
Ok, I’ll be the bad guy and use a bigger hammer. I’m guessing that Robin used carbon monoxide, but they aren’t saying. He certainly lived fast, loved hard and all that crap. Now he’s dead and I’ll bet he didn’t leave a beautiful corpse. Just another name added to a long, long list of the very best, Elvis, Hank, Jim, Jimi, Janis and on and on. I wonder all the time just what they could have done if they had just stayed with us.
BTW, I don’t intend the above just for Lily. Know what I mean Vern?
Yeah, well, Robin Williams was “suffering from sever depression.” I have never been depressed, just sad at times. In the hospital there was Sister Morphine, which really helped, and afterwards, of course, there was Jose Cuervo.
Just do the best that you can sweetheart because the best may be yet to come.
“The Coroner’s Division of the Marin County Sheriff’s Department describes (Robin) Williams’ death by asphyxiation as suspected suicide.”
It sounds to me as though he may have hanged himself. You gotta really want to go to go that way.
Two of my best friends parents, one of each sex, did that. Their children found the bodies. Left one impotent, not sure about the other one?
I have buried more suicides than I care to think of. Clear Lake, TX had a rash of teen suicides one month there, one after the other back in the 80’s. Made all the news, national and all. I buried all of them I think. I was still burying suicides when I stopped being a florist about 6 years ago.
Contrary to movies and drama and novels, Lily, there are seldom pretty corpses. Another one of my cousins married the most beautiful woman I have ever seen and she killed herself about a month after the wedding. They used my bridal bouquet for her funeral but a week later she was still unrecognizable from the carbon monoxide.
Love, Jackie
I’ve been gone several days and we’re still on this cartoon?
Dunno, Jackie, I have seen some awfully pretty corpses from gunshot wounds and car wrecks 😛
I’ve been off reading tidbits, useless (and useful!) factoids, and reading about all the really useful words other countries have and we don’t, and I have no hope of pronouncing. I return to the universe to discover Robin Williams is dead. It is a damn shame, but I am honestly not really surprised. I’ve always seen the pain behind the manic humor. I have no doubt bipolar or manic depressive disorder fueled much of his material. I’ve mentioned before my emotional response to seeing “Good Morning Vietnam” at the drive-in when I was nine. While “Dead Poet’s Society” is a great film, GMV will always be his magnum opus, IMHO. May he be at peace.
Here’s one of the reasons I’ll remember Robin Williams:
http://www.celebrityvalues.com/robin_williams.html
Lots of people talk the talk; Williams walked the walk.
Lilyblack, you are right about the many demons. Severe depression is a tough one, too. That’s a beastie I know. You lose interest in everything, including waking up the next morning. Every day you get up, fight it off and go on. Some day, some people just get tired of the fight and it’s over for them. But not for the rest.
Goodbye Robin. Mork has left the planet.
Dear Ghost, thank you for thinking of me. I have been reading every word of this forum, every day, with great attention. Everyone is so interesting! Every person who writes in has a different point of view, and has lived a different kind of life. I love reading all the stories that Jackie posts … the drama of the chicken farm that Debbe regales us with … Lilyblack’s insouciance. There isn’t much I can reply with, except amazement!
My good fortune has been to live a long, peaceful, happy life. Quite unusual, apparently.
I care a lot about all of you.
So sad about Robin Williams, can hardly believe he’s really gone.
Night all. Had to go to eight Margaritas tonight, but it’s early.
Someone, without doubt, is going to look at the news story about Robin Williams and say “but he was rich and famous, how could he have been depressed?” One of the truest things I was ever taught is that fame is fleeting and money can’t buy happiness. It doesn’t even rent it for long. The most ironic thing is that he was in Bobby McFerrin’s wonderful music video, Don’t Worry, Be Happy. How sad that this man who could make others so happy couldn’t find happiness for himself.
Here’s a video I use at the hospital that explains depression in layman’s terms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc
Thanks to Trucker. I realize now that I knew nothing about this wonderful man. Lily, I’m beginning to wonder if I haven’t encountered you before in another forum.
Trapper, That’s still one of my favorite songs and I still have the album.
Good morning Villagers…
Been reading about Robing Williams’ years of addiction….cocaine and alcohol….then twenty years of sobriety. He was a gifted man. I loved his movies….The Fisher King, The World According to Garp, on, and on, and on. And, his contribution to Comic Relief. I’m like GR, death by hanging oneself, you really are intent. As someone said above Gooodbye, Vietnam.
Good morning Miss Charlotte, glad you enjoy my follies at work. On weekends, I have the two teenage boys…they do educate and entertain me…like Dakota sitting on the concrete floor and dragging his butt across the floor….I told him to “get up, they have medication for that” 🙂
Tonight is the night they start “retiring the old girls”…..they dropped off 6 “kill” boxes yesterday. Now it’s our job to get them and CO2 cylinders into the hen house. Yesterday, I pulled out a dead rooster…..you know, I’ve had these girls for almost two years…..they’ve been good. I hope we get the same breed, Hyline….low mortality and good eggs. But they are still living and breathing animals. But as my son Ian says, “mom, they bio mechanically engineered egg laying machines!”
later….
GR 😉 you’re a good son. I hope I will be as blessed someday.
Oh, and Bryan…you’re welcome….”Let It Rain” is one of my favorites also.
Check out the markings….absolutely beautiful
http://cheezburger.com/8284134912
Today’s only the 12th, it’s the 13th, tomorrow night the death toll rings…..
….and a sigh of relief
🙂 400th…..na noo, na nooo