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Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply
- itstomkent 5y agoIt's a shame deep multi-decade relationships are so rare =/
- TravHatesMe 5y agoProbably because people change over time. Change is inevitable, love can be conditional.
- StavrosK 5y agoAlso most people don't want to put in the work to maintain relationships for this long.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThe trick is to find the people who will because it’s as important to them as it is to you.
- lr4444lr 5y agoThe Peewee Herman show was a fond memory of my childhood, and I tip my hat to everyone involved.
- thathndude 5y agoI wonder if he’d be seen as a Mr Rogers Lite if not for the unfortunate movie theater incident. He did help raise a generation of us in a more 80s/90s style compared to the reserved styling of Rogers.
- lr4444lr 5y agoI don't think so. His stuff by today's standards was very un-woke (John's genie character itself would probably be considered an offensive stereotype) and there are YouTube videos compiled of clips that show unambiguous double entendres that would be considered child-corrupting. What happened to Rubens for the movie theater incident was incredibly harsh, I think even for that era, but I just don't think that a show as deliberately weird as Peewee's Playhouse would be well received today by parents and cultural stewards. A shame though, Rubens was a really great performing artist.
- hprotagonist 5y agoArtists always catch shit from the status quo supporting boring scolds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ22N3Y9f70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ22N3Y9f70 art that isn’t at least a little subversive is very rarely any good.
- OJFord 5y ago> unambiguous double entendres An oxymoron if ever there was one?
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI'd think an ambiguous double entendre was one where you weren't sure if the person making it wanted to do so or just did it by accident.
- bluedino 5y agoMy mother was on the conservative-Christian side and didn’t allow us to watch PeeWee. I don’t really know what her reasons were.
- echelon 5y agoProbably the movie theater incident. My mother wasn't a fan after that happened.
- zzzbra 5y agogreatly appreciate that this could make it to the top of hacker news.
- xbar 5y agoThe word of the day is....door!
- markchristian 5y ago“The wish is granted. Long live Jambi.”
- Gelob 5y agoWho knew pee wee had a blog
- dr_dshiv 5y agoDid you see the Al and Arnie video he posted? Totally cracked me up
- ed25519FUUU 5y ago> Paragon died on April 3, 2021 at his home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 66. His cause of death was heart disease and chronic alcohol abuse. News of his death was not made public until June. From wikipedia for the curious.
- delgaudm 5y agoShine on forever, Shine on benevolent sun
- slopirate 5y agoLong live Jambi
- wjossey 5y agoAs someone who lost two parents by 60, to alcohol, I hope John’s passing can serve as a reminder to those struggling that today is a great day to get sober. There is no shame in the fact that you’re an alcoholic or any other dependency you’re facing. What you’re feeling is real, difficult to overcome, but not insurmountable. There’s an AA meeting near you that’s probably happening in a few hours. And, if AA isn’t your thing, there are other alternatives as well. I hope you can find a way to make it there, and begin the journey you deserve to live a long, healthy, fulfilling life.
- serf 5y agoquestion : is your premise based around the fact that the coroner's report cited chronic alcohol related injury, or the testimony of his friends or family? My mother's autopsy and subsequent coroner's testimony stated that she had alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, indications of alcohol-enabled pancreatitis, and cardiovascular evidence of alcohol abuse.. thing is -- I had lived with her and taken care of her for 20+ years. She hadn't touched alcohol during that time. She stated that before that time that she had been an occasional light social drinker -- and her social community backed her up on that conclusion; there was no real evidence of alcohol abuse in her life. She had other vices; she smoked until death. She didn't drink. She died at 65. So, I ask because I no longer trust coroner's reports wholeheartedly. I think they intend well, and I think they're probably roughly accurate about the state of the body at death -- but I think they probably miss a lot of nuance and probably come up with a lot of shoddy predictions regarding 'lived lifestyle'. P.S. if you ended up curious as to why she had all that internal injury -- she had a terrible fight with necrotizing fasciitis on one of her legs after an injury during gardening from a rose thorn and subsequent infection earlier in her life -- her ICU stay was extremely long and filled with experimental drugs/antibiotics that came with all sorts of precautions and side effects. Her GP at the time believed the liver damage to be caused by one of the (many) antibiotics.
- wjossey 5y agoYes. Just going off the public report by the sheriff’s department. My message stands whether or not folks believe the report is accurate. Hundreds die every day from alcohol abuse, whether or not John was one of them.