hip hip hooray for a friend and legendary guitar player
I hope your sister gets well soon, your mother in law miraculously as
well.. you get your 3-D TV and that everyone lives happy
I also hope you come back to Vegas sometime again so I can cheer from the seats
:- )
At 03:47 PM 12/17/2013, Greg Douglass wrote:
Fellow members of our Marvelous Gaggle of Geeks:
I have been selling ...or trying to sell, in some cases...various
items on Ebay. I've raised a bit of money, and, to be frank, I was
going to put it towards a 3D television (a cheap one, but....hey, I
became addicted to 3D when i saw HOUSE OF WAX back in the late Fifties.)
Well...I believe it was Woody Allen who said , "Want to make God
laugh? Tell Him your plans." I knew that this would probably be my
mother-in-law's last Christmas. She has colon cancer, and is
refusing all treatment: no chemo, no radiation, nothing except an
occasional Vicodin. "I'm 88", she told me at Thanksgiving, "and I
want to go out with some quality of life and my family with me." We
we were prepared for that, but now it turns out that the healthiest,
most ass-kicking person i know, my sister-in-law Jan, has Stage Four
lung cancer. She is responding well to some amazing alternative
therapy (it's called I.P.T. ;it's chemo that doesn't make you sick
or lose your hair. They are working on BUILDING her immune system
instead of nuking it or poisoning it. She may have a chance: she
looks much better. I love her so much and her bravery inspires me
every day. My wife is being such a trooper...
I have a bit of money in my Ebay account: not a lot, but I
know my sister-in-law could use it. (She just retired from 30 years
as a dispatcher at the Sheriff's office in Truckee.) That stupid TV can wait.
I didn't write this letter to try to get you guys to bid on
my stuff: I've done enough of that this last couple of weeks.
("FA"; "FA"; "FA", ad infinitum...) I just wanted to vent some of
my shame at being such a greedy, materialistic dick while people I
love and who have been so kind to me are dying or very sick.
AND!!!!!I also want to thank some of the MOPO members who
tried to help me sell my beloved S2 Karloff MUMMY stone litho
recreation. Your notes to the group were small but heartwarmingly
selfless acts that made me proud to be a part of you.
Toochis....you are a gem. (Toochis wrote to me saying she would bow
out of the sale as she thought I could get more for the poster
than her final bid price. that was still during the "I wanna-gimme
my 3d TV" plan. (I shoulda gone for your priginal offer, Toochis,
but....what was i saying about being a "greedy, materialistic
dick"? You ladies and gentleman, supposedly my 'competition", tried
to help me sell my item. I have met Tom Martin...who is as
delightful as you would expect....but I have not met any of the rest
of you and yet i consider you dear friends. Thank you for cheering
me up during a difficult time. This is what Christmas is truly
about. I hope to do so someday. My household bills were taken care
of for the next couple of months by a surprise royalty check, so i
can do something nice for my wife's little sister.
So....sigh... I'll still be listing stuff, including that
goddamned MUMMY poster, but with a much larger heart and the
feeling that i have people who care about me out there, You're a
good bunch of geeks. Love and Merry Christmas to you all,
Greg Douglass
PS-Lest I get the reputation of being TOO warm & fuzzy, after a bit
of research into the life of Charles Dickens I understand that Tiny
Tim f**ked his leg up playing chicken with a horse-driven carriage
after drinking a combination of mead, opium, and goat urine. You'd
think Scrooge would be able to see through THAT scam!!! Well, we all
make mistakes. You guys made this holiday a special one in
significant, tiny ways for this collector.. Now light a fire and
drink some egg-nog.
Love to one & all,
Greg Douglass
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