Remembering Dennis Ferdon

Today is the 13th anniversary of my brother's death. 

Dennis A. Ferdon Obituary

I resorted to Google this year for ideas on how to honor him. The Suicide Prevention Hotline website offered the best counsel:

"The best way to honor our fallen loved ones is simply by living. Live life joyfully and abundantly, the way that they would have wished. Spread love and hope and encouragement, and the message that no person is alone. Thousands of voices are silenced to suicide each year.. but not forever. We can be the voices of those lost."

We miss you brother!!!!

See also - 

Previous Posts re Dennis and Suicide

Current State of Affairs

 

The Wave - Excerpt from Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Strange Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971)

Hero

HST is one of my heroes. This is a great movie about him, his passion, and those heady days of my generation in the late 1960s-70s. This movie captures the excitement, the struggle and the hope of those days. 

Thompson was a true patriot. George W. Bush killed him. We can only imagine his views on Donald Trump and what Trumpism says about America and the American Dream. 

I wish that he could have stood it and was here to put his words to the frustration, fear, loathing and lost hope we have felt since Trump's emergence as a force in the Republican Party. Nobody could do it better.

More NYC Stories - Pretend It's A City

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Remembering John Lewis

This Book Says It All

Great book by a great writer. A book that needed to be written.

Who needs tell-alls from Anonymous, Mattis, Mary Trump, etc.?? This book says it all.

Read it, weep and share it with your friends.

(PS - I'm sorry this website is getting so political. It is hard not to be in these crazy times.)

R.I. P. Mr. Prine

John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73

The folk singer and songwriter with a raspy voice and an offbeat humor was revered by peers including Bob Dylan. John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Angel from Montgomery

Shantaram

Too many great quotes, sentences, images of real life to quote here. Read them for yourself.

Conor Oberst on Charlie Rose

On the Anniversary of My Best Friend's Suicide

Happy 55th Birthday David Foster Wallace!

From today's Writer's Almanac on NPR:

R.I.P. Leonard

Kate Kinnon is the best!  Man, what a talent.  One can see fun in her eyes and smile.  If you didn't see her camera wink in this video, you haven't watched it enough times.

Prince - Gone Too Soon!!!

Allen Iverson - Hall of Framer

We love you AI!!!!

David Bowie's Elephant Man

In his honor of his passing yesterday, the Denver Post uploaded today a number of articles about David Bowie's theatre performance of the Broadway play Elephant Man in Denver in the summer of 1980.  I was there!!!!!  It was  a memorable experience.  He was great.

Read the review by clicking on this link!

R.I.P. - David Bowie - One of a Kind

New York Times Obituary for Bowie

Frank Sinatra 100 Years Old - Time to Remember the Timeless

The New York Times had an excellent article marking the occasion of what would have been Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday:  "A Hundred Years On, The Voice Resonates Still."  Check it out!!!