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Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
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@jon-nyc said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
It’s a shame you never met Vince.
Vince is a convincing arbiter of this question, but not in a way you’re comfortable posting about publicly? Is that the take home message?
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@Mik said in Dewey's post:
Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lug=fin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
he nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
I sat beside Vince for that dinner. I remember being sorry for that for Vince's sake. After all, this is at its core a piano forum, Vince was an institution in his world and I don't know shit about pianos or his industry. Kind of a waste to hang with the likes of me was my feeling on it. But he was very kind and accommodating.
And Vince... had some stories.
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@Mik said in Dewey's post:
Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
Also had lunch with Vince once in an Italian restaurant in Philly. A vivacious and gregarious gentleman of a bygone era, proud of his Italian heritage and his hometown, Vince was very much a delight. Vince offered to give me a tour of Cunningham's old Germantown shop, but I did not take him up on it because by that time I have already toured that Cunningham shop twice -- silly me, I thought there would be more time and more opportunities to meet up with Vince again in the future.
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@89th said in Dewey's post:
@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text.
Wow did you hear how many syllables he had when he said “redneck”? I counted 4.
You missed one.
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@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
He wasn't really a religious person at all; the whole subject only mattered to him insofar as it bolstered his extreme right-wing politics.
One of the little peccadillos of (some/many) Protestants is to step into the shoes of God Almighty and declare judgement on some other Protestants that aren’t in full theological agreement as “unsaved” and “unbelieving.” This may be the case with Dewey here. I didn’t follow the Larry-Dewey wars all that closely but I’m sure Larry had a similar pronouncement. (As a Catholic I don’t get into these internecine arguments and actually the one thing that just about all these Protestants agree on is that Catholics are “unsaved” and “unbelieving.”) Anyway, I do take issue here with Dewey’s appraisal. I remember when Wacky Iraqi was on the board and had terminal cancer Larry stopped his usual harangue, changed his whole demeanor, and tried to convert Wacky to the Gospel and save his soul before he died. It is exactly what Christians are supposed to do. Larry really impressed me by how he took his faith and Wacky’s salvation so seriously. It didn’t even occur to me to do something similar. And not that I would have even if it did. But Larry did it and that would be a Christian.
Well, there’s that. As to the tone of Dewey’s missive—Dewey was butt hurt by Larry and he’s just expressing what he feels. Larry, I’m sure would do something similar is the shoe was on the other foot. Next door the people there are pretty much dancing on Larry’s grave. They were sometimes on the wrong end of Larry’s personal invectives and are venting. The gleefulness is a bit troubling, but that is the sandbox we all play in. But those over there tend to see the mote in Larry’s eye and not see the plank in their own—right from the beginning they expected to lecture the poor conservatives on the error of our ways with equal measures of condescension and pity and they expected us acquiesce to their wisdom, but instead to their surprise they got one hell of a fight. All good.
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.Missing your target a bit.
Most protestants don't think Catholics are unsaved or unbelieving. We do reject sacerdotalism and don't understand how y'all got so hung up on that Mary thing. And we'll just mark that building the Church on Peter idea, down to a reading comprehension problem.
As for protestant vs. protestant, most don't sweat the small stuff. I don't care if Pentecostals believe they need to speak in tongues, or Baptists abhor taking an alcoholic drink, etc. Where I do have a problem with any Christian or somebody who identifies as Christian, is when they portray something irrefutably sinful as being okey-dokey. It just doesn't work that way.
And be we whatever shade of Christianity, those pastoral letters still apply to the leadership of the church. The clergy is held to a higher standard. They don't always meet it, but they must strive to do so.
I can't agree with you more, other than the part about who has the reading comprehension problem.
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@Axtremus said in Dewey's post:
@AndyD said in Dewey's post:
So I never met Larry.
Could someone here who actually met and talked to him write a few words about him, a eulogy?
No one here at TNCR has met Larry in real life, but a WTF regular has met Larry in real life.
Met him for five minutes and cashes that fact in, for so much more than it is actually worth.
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@Axtremus said in Dewey's post:
No one here at TNCR has met Larry in real life, but a WTF regular has met Larry in real life.
I believe CathyS met him, but I may be wrong. Steve Miller met him as well.
I spoke with him on the phone for about half an hour.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Dewey's post:
@Axtremus said in Dewey's post:
No one here at TNCR has met Larry in real life, but a WTF regular has met Larry in real life.
I believe CathyS met him, but I may be wrong. Steve Miller met him as well.
I spoke with him on the phone for about half an hour.
She did, as did Cat lady - was that her handle? The former piano dealer in VA. She wandered into his little antique store in TN. She said he didn’t seem happy to be seen by her.
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Steve Miller met him as well.
I did lurk “ over there “ and read the thread. Other than Dewey, Frost and Madame Kollontai I really don’t see much in the way of grave dancing.
Likewise, regardless of whether Steve Miller spoke to him five minutes or five hours, I noted that Miller’s physical description of Larry does not at all jive with with alleged photo Gryphon posted some years ago. I remember Steve Miller as a pretty even keel poster and not prone to hyperbole or immoderate statements. Miller’s physical description if Larry is as follows:
”I remember him as being a big, light haired, Irish-looking guy.”
I do recollect Gryphon posting the photo although I do not recall comments from Larry about the picture. Perhaps someone here remembers.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I have to admit, even recently, I thought that perhaps he was not a real person. But it does seem like he have been met in real life.
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