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#1 Mar 06 2007 at 8:53 AM Rating: Excellent
He spent a thousand dollars on a new guitar last friday. When confronted with the fact that he had never played, and that perhaps a grand was a bit excessive for a starter guitar, he quickly countered that he'd had two years of piano as a boy. By all accounts, he was happy on friday, upbeat, better than he'd sounded since he lost his mother a yeag ago.

We'd often gone camping together, and even more often we'd gone out and gotten exceedingly drunk together. He'd kicked me out of his home, on occasion, and I him, from mine. I'd slept with his wife, a number of times, and he introduced me to golf.

The detective says he left a seventeen page note.

He splashed the contents of his head against the dated wallpaper of some hotel room in Virginia. He used a gun he bought from his wife's brother-in-law. Noone heard from him after friday.

Yesterday, I went for a hike along what back in Colorado would've been called a river, but what in Oregon was dubbed simply Abiqua Creek. Some of the largest trees I've ever seen sprawled with their mossy sleaves over the creek. I found a salamander sunning on a rock, bright red and orange. I felt the sun on my face and inhaled the fertile scent of imminent springtime.

I talked to his wife this morning. She had that simultaneous shock, thoughtfulness and hysteria that I've come to learn is unique to the recent loss of a loved one. It reminded me of telling her that her own mother had died. It reminds me of telling my own mother when grandma died. I told his wife she'd be in my thoughts, and that we'd speak again soon. She asked me to say a prayer for him.

So here goes.

Pat, man, may you find the peace that ever eluded you in life; may your demons finally quit the chase now that you've made this most permanent of escapes. Oh, and you don't mind if I bang your wife some more do you? I'm going to take your silence as a 'go for it'.



PS. I need a more appropriate outlet for this kind of stuff. Hell, I need a moderately appropriate outlet.
#2 Mar 06 2007 at 8:57 AM Rating: Good
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Ooooh, me likey.

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#3 Mar 06 2007 at 8:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, I'm at a loss. The idea of banging his wife seems to have cheered you up.
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The detective says he left a seventeen page note.
Seventeen pages? Should I ever decide to hasten my departure from this vale of tears, remind me not to leave a thesis long enough that it promotes skimming over my innermost thoughts and spiritual horrors.

Edited, Mar 6th 2007 9:00am by Jophiel
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#4 Mar 06 2007 at 9:04 AM Rating: Good
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The detective says he left a seventeen page note.
Seventeen pages? Should I ever decide to hasten my departure from this vale of tears, remind me not to leave a thesis long enough that it promotes skimming over my innermost thoughts and spiritual horrors.


Well, he was a stereotypical southern gentleman, so I assume he probably meandered wistfully into some childhood memory of his ****-hound.

I agree, though, let's not trouble the living with unneccessary details, just get to the meat and potatoes. I'm talking to you, gbaji.
#5 Mar 06 2007 at 9:12 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm talking to you, gbaji.
I think it is reasonable to consider his entire body of work on forum=4 a long suicide note in progress.
#6 Mar 06 2007 at 9:30 AM Rating: Excellent
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Barkingturtle wrote:
I'd slept with his wife, a number of times, and he introduced me to golf.


Out of habit from writing groups: This is your best sentence. I like it!

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#7 Mar 06 2007 at 9:35 AM Rating: Good
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I can't even bring myself to read the whole post.
#8 Mar 06 2007 at 9:38 AM Rating: Good
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I can't even bring myself to read the whole post.
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#9 Mar 06 2007 at 9:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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Atomicflea wrote:
I can't even bring myself to read the whole post.
Crap. Forget 17 pages. I'd better scratch out my final words onto a cocktail napkin.
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#10 Mar 06 2007 at 9:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Text message it.
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#11 Mar 06 2007 at 9:43 AM Rating: Good
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I can't even bring myself to read the whole post.


I'll summarize for your benefit, then, since I can totally understand that seeing that many of my words in one place sets the expectation of something creepy.

It's just a little memo concerning my implied guilt about sleeping with the wife of an old friend of mine who killed himself, yesterday. Oh, and the baffling nature of suicide, and stuff.
#12 Mar 06 2007 at 9:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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Text message it.
IM GUNA DPART DIS VALE O :'(
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#13 Mar 06 2007 at 9:54 AM Rating: Good
Jophiel wrote:
:'(


It's as if you gaze directly into the well of my sorrow.

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#14 Mar 06 2007 at 9:55 AM Rating: Good
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Atomicflea wrote:
I can't even bring myself to read the whole post.


I'll summarize for your benefit, then, since I can totally understand that seeing that many of my words in one place sets the expectation of something creepy.

It's just a little memo concerning my implied guilt about sleeping with the wife of an old friend of mine who killed himself, yesterday. Oh, and the baffling nature of suicide, and stuff.
Not that one, either.


Come to think of it, my attention span, patience and general empathy have just run dry.




Edited, Mar 6th 2007 11:56am by Atomicflea
#15 Mar 06 2007 at 9:58 AM Rating: Good
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All that happened to me today was that I got my tickets to see Roger Waters on his new Darkside of the Moon tour.

Oh well, don't feel bad about sleeping with his wife. He got into a relationship that was so poor, and with a SO so shifty that she would cheat with his friend. That is more the symptom of the problem that led to his eventual demise, not the actual cause of his untimley and messy ending. So you were like a passenger in a car that had a drunk driver that got in an accident and killed himself. Only you got laid, but not in a car (hopefully), so it was more comfortable.

Edited, Mar 6th 2007 12:59pm by bodhisattva
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#16 Mar 06 2007 at 10:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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bodhisattva wrote:
Only you got laid, but not in a car (hopefully), so it was more comfortable.


What's wrong with car sex?

Well, I guess in my Beetle there's something wrong, unless it's midget car sex.
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#17 Mar 06 2007 at 10:17 AM Rating: Good
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bodhisattva wrote:
Only you got laid, but not in a car (hopefully), so it was more comfortable.


What's wrong with car sex?

Well, I guess in my Beetle there's something wrong, unless it's midget car sex.
You let midgets have sex in your car often?
#18 Mar 06 2007 at 10:22 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, I did accidentally leave the car doors unlocked once and the seats were wet when I came back...
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#19 Mar 06 2007 at 10:41 AM Rating: Good
It was a Lincoln Town Car, so comfort was really not an issue. It even had heated seats.

Now, on other occasions, and with a different girlie, I have performed in both a Honda CRX and a Volkswagen Cabriolet. These vehicles are far less accomodating, and therefore do not receive my endorsement.
#20 Mar 06 2007 at 10:45 AM Rating: Good
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Well, I did accidentally leave the car doors unlocked once and the seats were wet when I came back...


So, incontinent midgets then. Gotcha.

#21 Mar 06 2007 at 10:46 AM Rating: Good
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Danalog the Vengeful Programmer wrote:
Well, I did accidentally leave the car doors unlocked once and the seats were wet when I came back...


So, incontinent midgets then. Gotcha.
That's some good **** ideas right there.
#22 Mar 06 2007 at 11:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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I've never had sex in a car.

/shrug

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#23 Mar 06 2007 at 11:03 AM Rating: Good
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Nexa wrote:
I've never had sex in a car.

/shrug
Now you will!
#24 Mar 06 2007 at 11:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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Nexa wrote:
I've never had sex in a car.

/shrug
Now you will!


I drive a honda civic...I really would have to be ******** a midget.

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#25 Mar 06 2007 at 11:05 AM Rating: Good
Nexa wrote:
Atomicflea wrote:
Nexa wrote:
I've never had sex in a car.

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Now you will!


I drive a honda civic...I really would have to be ******** a midget.

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#26 Mar 06 2007 at 11:06 AM Rating: Decent
Road head in a stick-shift isn't so nice. My girl-friend at the time wound up with a black eye.


...because she was talking back. Ba-dum-cha!
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