RIP Robin Williams

man, def. brutal. had no idea he had suffered so much for years leading up to his death

damn

Lewy body dementia is what got my dad. Same sort of slow, quiet start, which he largely kept secret (for at least a couple of years), followed by a rapid decline in the final several months. The paranoia, hallucinations, insomnia, tremors, all of that, though in the end it was the inability of his brain to simply tell him he was thirsty that finally did it.

one of the greatest improvisers/comedians of all time, sorely missed

The new biography by Dave Itzkoff is getting glowing reviews; not sure I have the will to read it.

just watched the HBO special, pretty good, bummed me out

otoh this did actually happen:

I hope they name that tunnel in Marin after him, that would be cool

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Yeah, we totally went through it on the way to San Fran!

I'm saving the doc for after a herculean lump of work I have to get done by monday, looking forward to it tho

there is also a big Robin Williams mural on the laundromat down the street from me, and I guess another fancier one just went up on Market. So he is being commemorated appropriately, which is nice. There was some really funny stuff in the doc, made me miss him

just got the Robin bio out of the library, immediately turned to the passages about the Met special and Waiting for Godot (as noted previously, the two times i saw him perform). The first was considered a career crest, the second an awkward flop (I liked it better than that).

I was just watching something about Robin Williams with my daughter. At the end I asked her what she thought about it, and she said it was good, but she really didn't like Robin Williams. I asked her why, and she said he was kind of a bad guy. I asked her what she was talking about, and she dismissively said "oh, he wrote that really sexist song with Robin Thicke." I was, like, what the hell are you talking about? Robin Williams never wrote a song with Robin Thicke. And then I thought, ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

You're thinking of Pharrell Williams!

Now she and Robin Williams are cool again, but I guess she's got beef with Pharrell.

Pharrell Thicke otoh

hah.

Funny timing, my son was watching the original Jumanji this morning and was telling me how much he likes Robin Williams (I think he really mostly knows him from the Night at the Museum movies and Mrs Doubtfire). He asked me if I thought he'd ever do another Museum movie and was really sad when I had to break the news.

Pharrell Thicke otoh

Can hear Sylvester saying this to Tweety Pie tbh.

oof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=258xga9HsjE

At the beginning of "quarantine" we took a drive around to check out some of Chicago's most notable murals, which resulting in this gem of a shot of one kid who is most definitely posing against her will:

https://i.imgur.com/qyZU47f.jpg

pic.twitter.com/me6uYzmtQF

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Why was he never on STar Trek