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

[gibby]

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

A toast to Frances MacKenzie Loughran
May she rest in peace.



...and devil, if you ever get a kickstarter project going to fund the publishing of your novel, please post it in the cantina.

 

[devilof76]

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

gibby, yer one cool mofo.

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

Would it make you feel any better to know that most of the teachers and so-called spiritual leaders who have dominated as we grew up have done everything they could to make it nearly impossible for us to live up to that? And even if we were able to dodge all of our educator's snares, they still would have set us up to be our generation's villains?

People of our generation should spare themselves the stress. It's not our fault that we lack the profundity of experience that our grandparents had. We weren't taught by necessity; we were taught by desire. And the desire that drove us was exactly why our grandparents fought to be able to provide for as best as they proved they could. They didn't want to see their grandchildren fighting to survive; they wanted the world to be a place where we could work to play, and I believe that the post-WWII culture on this planet was entirely that and no more; plain as day, simple as ****.

There was a movement fighting against them long before they won our future for us, and that movement despised exactly what we're trying to live for today. They hated our grandparents' culture, and they hated what should have been the legacy of what our grandparents understood to be right, and true, and good. Our parents lived with the hate squared, and we got it cubed.

So long as you know what kind of world your grandparents dreamed for you, there's no good reason why you should be ashamed of how far away you are from reaching that goal. The sheer fact that you can see where you fall short of is testament to the reality of your ambition to reach it one day. Or something.

I don't really know. I've been drinking.

 

[furystorm]

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

Damn. I think I'll pour myself a drink.

 

[MadCow]

...and devil, if you ever get a kickstarter project going to fund the publishing of your novel, please post it in the cantina.

Definitely, I'd gladly throw A few bucks in the pot.

so long as you know what kind of world your grandparents dreamed for you, there's no good reason why you should be ashamed of how far away you are from reaching that goal. The sheer fact that you can see where you fall short of is testament to the reality of your ambition to reach it one day. Or something.

I don't really know. I've been drinking.

This is the exact mentality I use to get myself out of these funks. I know my grandmother and mom would be proud of me, it's just hard to see it when they're not here to tell me so I lose sight.

Geez, I'm sitting here at work getting choked up. Now I need a drink, lol.

 

[RavenEye]

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.

Sorry to hear that bud, wish I had some kind of background on my Grandparents, if you knew what mine did you wouldn't believe it...

 

[Avfin]

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

I just registered as a runner in the 2013 Freepress International Marathon.
After many years of making excuses Not to do it.
I have been running every day for the last two weeks. 26.2 miles is a long freakin way---
But I am doing it!!!!
Oct 20th---WOOT

 

[MadCow]

I just registered as a runner in the 2013 Freepress International Marathon.
After many years of making excuses Not to do it.
I have been running every day for the last two weeks. 26.2 miles is a long freakin way---
But I am doing it!!!!
Oct 20th---WOOT

You can do it!!

 

[furystorm]

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

Wow! Congrats Rick! Right now, I can't run to the end of the block.

Dammit! I keep looking at AFA graded Artoos now.

 

[King Darkness]

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

Take a weekend off and everyone gets delusions of grandeur, myself as any other.

Glad to see you back here, Devil. Hope you had a good weekend.

Where the heck have you been? I was just thinking about you earlier today. And yes, I was clothed.

I took two months off and no one welcomed me back or told me they were thinking about me.

Bunch of jerks

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

That's big kahkah, sorry to hear that D.

Thanks guys. She was 93.

Thats awesome! Sometimes I think I want to live that long, but then I think about how kahkah the world is and I change my mind. I'm just to lazy to live that long, I don't want to have to work for another 60 years, cause I'll never be weathly enough to not work. Working sucks.

I would like to stick around to see innovations and stuff though. Imagine living the 93 years she lived, the innovations from her birth to death are mind boggling. Plus world wars, moon landings, presidential assassination, civil rights movement, nuclear power! YEESH!!! There hasn't been sheet in my life time to speak off. I guess the internet its pretty huge, but other than that? Fawkin LAME!

I need aliens, killer robots or Jesus to appear if this life is gonna be worth remembering

To Frances MacKenzie Loughran.

In other news, I got a Snowtrooper.

Old news

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.

gibby, yer one cool mofo.



Would it make you feel any better to know that most of the teachers and so-called spiritual leaders who have dominated as we grew up have done everything they could to make it nearly impossible for us to live up to that? And even if we were able to dodge all of our educator's snares, they still would have set us up to be our generation's villains?

People of our generation should spare themselves the stress. It's not our fault that we lack the profundity of experience that our grandparents had. We weren't taught by necessity; we were taught by desire. And the desire that drove us was exactly why our grandparents fought to be able to provide for as best as they proved they could. They didn't want to see their grandchildren fighting to survive; they wanted the world to be a place where we could work to play, and I believe that the post-WWII culture on this planet was entirely that and no more; plain as day, simple as ****.

There was a movement fighting against them long before they won our future for us, and that movement despised exactly what we're trying to live for today. They hated our grandparents' culture, and they hated what should have been the legacy of what our grandparents understood to be right, and true, and good. Our parents lived with the hate squared, and we got it cubed.

So long as you know what kind of world your grandparents dreamed for you, there's no good reason why you should be ashamed of how far away you are from reaching that goal. The sheer fact that you can see where you fall short of is testament to the reality of your ambition to reach it one day. Or something.

I don't really know. I've been drinking.

Words

Oh, and I'm not pitching in nothing for your book!

 

[MadCow]

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

That kind of attitude and you wonder why no one welcomed you back.

 

[King Darkness]

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

I don't wonder, I know why, you guys are jerks.

 

[UTtoyfan]

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

I don't wonder, I know why, you guys are jerks.

Who are you again?

 

[Darth Waller]

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

I took two months off and no one welcomed me back or told me they were thinking about me.

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[The Josh]

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

I don't wonder, I know why, you guys are jerks.

If it makes you feel any better I did wonder why you hadn't been around.

 

[barryo]

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

I took two months off and no one welcomed me back or told me they were thinking about me.

Bunch of jerks

hey i suggested we make a thread to raise your bail money..............that's gotta count for something..........shouldn't it?........

 

[Deak Starkiller]

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

Morning fellas and King!

 

[Kenbenobi]

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

Congrats on 25K, Waller! Took you long enough!

 

[Kenbenobi]

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.

Very sorry to hear that... 93 is very impressive. I'm sure she lived a wonderful life, and had many great stories to tell. My grandmother who was close to me lived to 91. My grandfather on the other side of the family (not close to me) made it to 98. I'll just be happy if I make it to 80.

 

[Kenbenobi]

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

Damn straight.

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

Yeah, I ponied up for the exclusive one. I hate the price point, but it is OK, and damn cool, so had to have it. But I gave up on Clonetroopers. Just too many of em...

 

[OutLander]

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

I don't wonder, I know why, you guys are jerks.

Look who woke up on the wrong side of the crib.