RIP Robin Williams

grab parkinson's disease by the neck

people who are not 15 years old listen to anything Henry Rollins has to say?

honestly at this point 15 year olds don't probably know who he is so i guess it's adults who listen to him

jd otm, i am acquainted with people who have grabbed cancer, parkinson's, and depression by the neck. the dif is that if you die from cancer or parkinson's, ppl go "damn, he grabbed that shit by the neck, well fought," but if you fail with depression, they do quite often go, "what a pussy, he blew it."

i mean yeah, lolhank, but fuck him hard on this.

who's henry rollins

oh he's the guy from the tattoo band

which blob of ink is he

http://i.imgur.com/dNhoboZ.png

he's got a look

blue steel, man

mrs doubtfire. i've come to incinerate you.

"blew it" is such a sensitive and apt metaphor too

i haven't read that henry rollins thing so this is a non-sequitur but: kinda surprised at how many suicidal ppl i've admitted recently that have cited RW as a trigger

rollins thing is such garbage
imagine being outraged so many people ~choose~ to kill themselves

I don't think we've posted this yet. Somebody dug thru the next World of Warcraft update and found what will probably his tribute in teh game. Versions of Genie, Mrs Doubtfire, and Mork should be showing up.

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-what-world-warcrafts-robin-williams-characte-208404

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5201/71/16x9/640.jpg

i'm a longtime fan of rollins but this was such stupid garbage.

^same here

does Rollins have kids

do they have the right to have a dad that isn't an embarrassing fuckheel

idk

the kids thing is paretic offensive given his daughter has made it clear williams' kids totally understood and were sympathetic of what their dad was going through. poor concern trolling from the man who wrote low self opinion imo

This Rollins is a cunt looks like

guys, i somehow avoided this has-been's 'hot take' til now, u could've too

After the New Yorker debacle, I treat everything signed by a Rollins as a joke

lmao

When someone commits this act, he or she is out of my analog world.

note to self: rethink suicide, remain in Henry Rollins' analog world

http://31.media.tumblr.com/eed9d4fb10fef77f2e1f9c09d53044d8/tumblr_mqdckg70fC1sqhsqco1_400.gif

What is an analog world? Stop it, Henry.

did anyone else watch the short video thor harris (from swans) made about depression and suicide? it was really good. i was annoyed with him for that blowhardy list he wrote about "how to live" but he is a tenderhearted person and i identified with a lot of what he said.

henry rollins can eat a big fat donut and kindly stfu

that list by thor is one of my favorite things

and is not blowhardy at all

http://monofonuspress.com/how-to-live-like-a-king-for-very-little-by-thor-harris

<3 thor

this is the video, it's not even 8 min long
worth a watch
http://www.stereogum.com/1700410/watch-swans-thor-harris-explain-his-major-depression-in-a-great-short-documentary/video/

here's the doc on thor

http://www.stereogum.com/1700410/watch-swans-thor-harris-explain-his-major-depression-in-a-great-short-documentary/video/

oops

what a beautiful man he is.

sensible list imo.

ah, that video is wonderful, too. what a humane voice.

honestly at this point 15 year olds don't probably know who he is so i guess it's adults who listen to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-8vo0Rnec

"Life isn’t anything but what you make it." - rollins

pull yourself up by your bootstraps you saddos *kisses biceps*

ugh i just realized that jack frost movie is more than 15 years old

Henry is celebrating the 20th anniversary of being a wacky bit player in hollywood movies this year - Charlie Sheen's The Chase came out March '94

"robin couldn't hack it? fine, more potential bits in family comedies for me. i got this goofy priest role by the throat. residuals forever."

Patch Rollins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3S-IuxseAI

family, maaan

I rescreened Popeye this evening. One thing that doesn't get brought up much (if at all) is how well Williams handles the, er, Nilsson-ness of the musical material. He really captures the quirky touches/maker's marks.

Rollins posted a pretty earnest apology on his website

very unusual for a celebrity whose toxic opinion goes viral

heartless opinions about suicide victims are pretty common. glad rollins is getting dragged through the dirt for this.

that said, i think people sometimes adopt the attitudes rollings put forth in that essay as a way to talk themselves out of killing themselves. sort of like right wing rhetoric on "personal responsibility": as a personal mantra, it works great, but it's cruel to hold other people to that standard.

also it's probably cruel and toxic to your own psyche to try to whiteknuckle yourself out of suicide ideation. a more compassionate course is better. but anyone who has experienced that or knows people who have knows how scary it is, so it would make sense, in that case, to develop an ethos in which the act doesn't seem like an option...

Rollins' apology is really good, and no rote non-apology. It's worth a read, if only to get a sense that he genuinely seems to realise what he wrote was wrong, or to at least have genuinely been affected by the reaction to it.