(FLOSI'S Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

My grandmother died. I visited her in the hospital last weekend, and this weekend we buried her. Tonight, I'm drinking.

And why do always have to break my heart?

 

[Boba Ben]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Bumping this for anyone else who wants to enter. I'll probably do the drawing when I get home from work tomorrow.

Thanks fellas. Yeah, I've been here since 2006, so I've posted all over the place throughout the years.

I'm doing my 10,000 post giveaway now. Just type "Walrus Man for 2013. Long live Star Wars. Long live Flosi's Cantina" and you'll be entered into the random drawing for the prize pack I put together. I tried to put together different items from various franchises I hold dear to my heart. The prize pack contains the following items:

-Sideshow Stormtrooper (doesn't have box and is missing a few pieces. Was transferred onto a Desert Sands Sandtrooper body, so he's a lot more stable than an original one would be.)

-Hasbro TIE Fighter (Large wing version from a few years back)

-POTF2 Rancor

-Play Arts Kai Big Boss

-Masterpiece Skywarp

-Masterpiece Thundercracker (new version. TRU Exclusive)

-Bandai Creations Gigan

-Bandai Japan Mechagodzilla 2002

-GI Joe 20th Anniversary Snow Serpent

-Neca Michelangelo

-SDCC D-Arts Metallic Mega Man

-Army man styled Alien Warrior

-Roy Koopa mini trading figure from Mario

 

[The Josh]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Sorry Dev the OT could only hope to be as good as anything Tolkien did.

That being said sorry about your grandma.

 

[Boba Ben]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

My grandmother died. I visited her in the hospital last weekend, and this weekend we buried her. Tonight, I'm drinking.

And why do always have to break my heart?

I'm really sorry to hear that. My condolences to you.

 

[MadCow]

My grandmother died. I visited her in the hospital last weekend, and this weekend we buried her. Tonight, I'm drinking.

And why do always have to break my heart?

so sorry to hear. My grandmother passed away about 3 years ago and it hit me really hard. She had a huge part in raising me before and after my Mom died.

 

[Darth Waller]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

My grandmother died. I visited her in the hospital last weekend, and this weekend we buried her. Tonight, I'm drinking.

And why do always have to break my heart?

Sorry, man.

 

[UTtoyfan]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

My grandmother died. I visited her in the hospital last weekend, and this weekend we buried her. Tonight, I'm drinking.

And why do always have to break my heart?

Aw man, so sorry to hear that dev.

 

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Thanks guys. She was 93.

What's interesting to me was that she has lived with a cousin of mine for the past several years who claims to see ghosts. She supposedly talks to deceased relatives on a daily basis. While the old woman lay in her deathbed, she was remarkably stubborn. My cousin didn't understand why she wasn't ready to die with all of her loved ones waiting on the other side to greet her.



Personally, I sympathize with the woman for not wanting to go, even if I didn't get too worked up over her passing. I've been expecting it for a long time and I marvel that it took so long for it to happen. After her husband died in 2004, she was getting by on 10 or so books a week, cigarettes every few hours, and an occassional Manhattan. She outlived all of her friends and all of her immediate family, save a younger brother. She even lived long enough to see one of her sons die. Every time I spoke with her, she wondered out loud why God was doing this to her. Honestly, when you've done it all, unless you have a way to get young again, why do you want to stay? Because you're afraid of not being any more? Yeah. That's the best I can come up with.

She lived a damned good life. Canadian Royal Air Force, stationed in London during WWII. Married American Navy. Three story home in Milton, Massachusetts in the same neighborhood that JFK went to high school. Seven children. Twenty grandchildren. Eleven great-grandchildren. I wish she'd lived long enough for me to have published a novel, but I wish that of everyone I've ever known who has already died, and above all of them, I am certain that she wouldn't have liked what I wrote. So, in a way, it's a relief.

I don't know. Sometimes death is sad. Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes you get a chance to just plain be thankful to have been a witness to a person who got to see it all. 1920-2013. Damn...she did good.

 

[The Josh]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Very nice solid life.

 

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

If I delved into her childhood and the legend that was her mother (contra alto who sang at St. Patrick's in New York and Carnegie Hall), you'd be blown away. Seriously. She loved living, and that's all there was to it. She even wore heels up until two weeks before she died. I regret that she had no way to keep on. A class act.

To Frances MacKenzie Loughran.

 

[FLOSI]

Cheers, mate. A life to celebrate and not mourn, no doubt. :

 

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Damn straight.

In other news, I got a Snowtrooper. Anybody else get that one yet?

 

[Boba Ben]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

Damn straight.

In other news, I got a Snowtrooper. Anybody else get that one yet?

I almost bought one at a convention last week, but just couldn't get myself to pull the trigger.

 

[FLOSI]

Damn straight.

In other news, I got a Snowtrooper. Anybody else get that one yet?

Yup. Got the cannon too. It's become a favorite from the get go. You dig it?

 

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

I do. Haven't had much time to play with, but he's set up next to my Sandtrooper Sergeant and the two of them make me fear for the sanctity of my rebel backside.

 

[MadCow]

Very nice solid life.

If I delved into her childhood and the legend that was her mother (contra alto who sang at St. Patrick's in New York and Carnegie Hall), you'd be blown away. Seriously. She loved living, and that's all there was to it. She even wore heels up until two weeks before she died. I regret that she had no way to keep on. A class act.

To Frances MacKenzie Loughran.

Seriously, we should all be so lucky to live such an amazing life. Whenever I think my life is hard I think about what my Grandparents went through fleeing Czechoslovakia in the middle of the night from the Germans and having to start new lives in Australia and then finally the US. It's amazing.

 

[Avfin]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

If I delved into her childhood and the legend that was her mother (contra alto who sang at St. Patrick's in New York and Carnegie Hall), you'd be blown away. Seriously. She loved living, and that's all there was to it. She even wore heels up until two weeks before she died. I regret that she had no way to keep on. A class act.

To Frances MacKenzie Loughran.

Sorry for your loss

 

[Darth Waller]

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Sometimes I think our grandparents were made of thicker stuff than we are.

 

[devilof76]

re: (galactiboy's Cantina) "Where everybody knows your name..."

They were. And the plushness of life that we have had was prepared for on their backs. We have an opportunity to rise so much further than they did and it's all because of the lives they lived. I get angry at how their legacy has been squandered. The generation that landed a man on the moon should have been honored with more than the 21st century has had to offer, thus far.

 

[MadCow]

They were. And the plushness of life that we have had was prepared for on their backs. We have an opportunity to rise so much further than they did and it's all because of the lives they lived. I get angry at how their legacy has been squandered. The generation that landed a man on the moon should have been honored with more than the 21st century has had to offer, thus far.

And it's this opportunity that often makes me feel like a failure and has caused me years of anxiety and depression.