Paul Reubens , Pee-wee Herman dead at 70 RIP

[DAPUNISHER]

I work in a climate controlled environment, but I do feel for the people working outside.

Story time.

Don't feel too bad. It's tough, but it's rewarding work to some of us. I had to wear jeans, work boots, and a hard hat when I worked for Clancy&Theys, building the operation support building #2 across from the VAB at KSC.

I was 40yrs old. Because I worked for the contractor and not a sub, I did whatever we hadn't explicitly contracted subs to do. Well, some big swinging dick demo crew that helped clean up the 9/11 scene came to take out "portable city" which was what our building was replacing. IIRC the Client was U.S.A. United Space Alliance. Anyways they managed to damage a 40K+? volt electrical line. Guess who had the big chip hammer and full gear mid day in the August heat in a literal swamp.

We worked in that building for months in summer, with the windows in, but no HVAC installed yet. I worked around outside a lot too. I was always drenched like I jumped in a pool within an hour of starting the day. But a cooler full of powerade and changing my t-shirt a couple of times a day, was all I needed.

We worked 7am-3pm. When I got home I didn't have worries or stress. I was tired and satisfied. I slept like the dead. Life was simple and wonderful. I never dreaded being in the heat. I never had heat exhaustion. The guys painting the dino will have their work seen and appreciated by millions. That's rewarding shit my dude.

The only thing I hated was Hurri-con. The clean up and lockdown for those blew goats for a nickel a herd.

 

[kt]

Pretty sure Paul wouldn't want people risking heat stroke just to repaint the prop

Don't worry, the dino is in CA where water break is still a thing.

 

[Muse]

What really makes me sad is your whole world is based upon familiar faces...celebrities you enjoy as you grow up shape your life. As they die off, eventually you have no more roots to your past. It's kind of debasing. A good 80% of my childhood heroes are already dead.

I feel compelled to reply to this. Yes, they die off. I don't get upset. A lot of the time I'm just, oh. A few I go, "oh no!" I was that with Tony Bennett a couple weeks ago.

I don't feel obliterated when celebrities die. I'm trying to just accept the stark fact that everyone, every single person I see or have ever known will one day be gone, including myself, of course. This morning I even tried to imagine the death of our planet.

These exercises make it easier for me to imagine the transitions we're facing these days. A whole lot of people are evidently utterly incapable of this.

 

[Muse]

Poignant or uplifting, you decide

Elvira's autobiography is NOT TO BE MISSED!

What a shot!

 

[skyking]

I feel compelled to reply to this. Yes, they die off. I don't get upset. A lot of the time I'm just, oh. A few I go, "oh no!" I was that with Tony Bennett a couple weeks ago.

I don't feel obliterated when celebrities die. I'm trying to just accept the stark fact that everyone, every single person I see or have ever known will one day be gone, including myself, of course. This morning I even tried to imagine the death of our planet.

These exercises make it easier for me to imagine the transitions we're facing these days. A whole lot of people are evidently utterly incapable of this.

I took a moment with Paul's passing and thought of Andy Kaufman.

 

[pmv]

What really makes me sad is your whole world is based upon familiar faces...celebrities you enjoy as you grow up shape your life. As they die off, eventually you have no more roots to your past. It's kind of debasing. A good 80% of my childhood heroes are already dead.

I feel that way about places. When I go for walks around the city I generally find all the places I know from my childhood and youth are pretty-much unrecognisable. Both the physical buildings and the social-make-up of the neighbourhoods have changed dramatically.

 

[skyking]

I get that every time I drive across Chinook Pass to our old home town. The Horseshoe Bend Quarry was inactive for decades. My recently deceased Brother in Law taught us boys to rappel on the cliff face there in 1969~1970, when he came back from his tour in the Army Special Forces in Europe.
My older brother died, so two of us remain.
The quarry was re-opened and they literally took the cliff away with dynamite. It was located where that white equipment is now.
https://goo.gl/maps/GrXj6tSSrzQkmXwz6

 

[JEDI]

Elvira's autobiography is NOT TO BE MISSED!

What a shot!

Explain?

 

[nakedfrog]

I get that every time I drive across Chinook Pass to our old home town. The Horseshoe Bend Quarry was inactive for decades. My recently deceased Brother in Law taught us boys to rappel on the cliff face there in 1969~1970, when he came back from his tour in the Army Special Forces in Europe.
My older brother died, so two of us remain.
The quarry was re-opened and they literally took the cliff away with dynamite. It was located where that white equipment is now.
https://goo.gl/maps/GrXj6tSSrzQkmXwz6

Not exactly the coal company with the world's largest shovel, but the impact would probably be similar, my sympathy.

 

[Muse]

Explain?

I simply plugged Elvira's great auto-bio (great read!) and the photo of her with Pee Wee.

 

[Fritzo]

I feel that way about places. When I go for walks around the city I generally find all the places I know from my childhood and youth are pretty-much unrecognisable. Both the physical buildings and the social-make-up of the neighbourhoods have changed dramatically.

Yeah...same here. I drive though my childhood neighborhood about once a year and see ghosts of things that used to be. It's a demilitarized zone now. Sad.

 

[Kaido]

What am I missing here?

COMPLIANCE!

 

[pmv]

Yeah...same here. I drive though my childhood neighborhood about once a year and see ghosts of things that used to be. It's a demilitarized zone now. Sad.

For me it's more the reverse process - it _used_ to look like a DMZ - that's how I nostalgically remember it - now it's all been gentrified, and is full of yuppies, with their pavement cafes and wine bars - and the buildings have mostly been replaced with far more modern and expensive-looking ones, low-rise crumbling brick replaced with mid-rise plate glass frontages (though I doubt they'll physically last as long as the old ones did). A concequence of the city over the last few decades reversing the process of depopulating that was going on during my childhood.

Even the sites that had been vacant since being hit by WW2 bombs (the blitz and the doodlebugs) that sat empty back then (effectively open green space for us kids to play in) have now all been in-filled and built on.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

The forum software has you covered in case you needed a grim reminder of celebrity deaths. The suggested threads at the bottom.

 

[Kaido]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1041501076731873

 

[SKORPI0]

Pee-Wee Herman star Paul Reubens' cause of death is revealed

Pee Wee Herman icon Paul Reubens' cause of death has been officially revealed, just over a month after his passing.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Pee Wee Herman icon Paul Reubens' cause of death has been officially revealed, just over a month after his passing.
His newly released death certificate, obtained by The Blast on Friday, attributed his primary cause of death, at age 70, to acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
The publication reported that the comedian 'succumbed to acute hypoxic respiratory failure.'

The complication occurs when 'the respiratory system cannot adequately provide oxygen to the body, leading to hypoxemia.'
In addition to blood cancer, he 'was also battling metastatic lung cancer.'

 

[Brainonska511]

Pee-Wee Herman star Paul Reubens' cause of death is revealed

Pee Wee Herman icon Paul Reubens' cause of death has been officially revealed, just over a month after his passing.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's a rough way to go. I hope they were able to make him comfortable in the end.