tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post1364068272600641035..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Dying to Get Out the VoteScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-50786972979987377472011-02-16T18:40:55.220-08:002011-02-16T18:40:55.220-08:00Stefanie, with a f. Had to change my name at 16 t...Stefanie, with a f. Had to change my name at 16 to be different. Oh dear...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-33065235922777254312011-02-16T17:51:13.788-08:002011-02-16T17:51:13.788-08:00YES! WOOHOO!
Anonymous above is my older sister,...YES! WOOHOO! <br /><br />Anonymous above is my older sister, Stephanie.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-32755241414897940772011-02-16T17:46:50.214-08:002011-02-16T17:46:50.214-08:00And so is Mom frugal....Stef is NOT...And so is Mom frugal....Stef is NOT...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-51482238495554268922011-02-16T17:41:41.228-08:002011-02-16T17:41:41.228-08:00Fourfecta coming up. I've emailed my older sis...Fourfecta coming up. I've emailed my older sister the link, and asked her to comment.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-48155246733035452512011-02-16T17:24:57.484-08:002011-02-16T17:24:57.484-08:00Well, he's frugal, a quality I've always a...Well, he's frugal, a quality I've always appreciated.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-83215206826358732612011-02-14T07:41:14.308-08:002011-02-14T07:41:14.308-08:00Gergvos said...
Nice to know that if I have to att...Gergvos said...<br />Nice to know that if I have to attend your funeral, all I need to bring is a match.<br /><br />Wow Gerg, optimistic much? ;)Vickynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-91089958528292735752011-02-12T19:13:49.265-08:002011-02-12T19:13:49.265-08:00Scott writes: I can only imagine what he's bro...Scott writes: <i>I can only imagine what he's brought to his actual family</i><br /><br />Uh, yeah, well, you do that, Scott [laughing], imagine away, that's most definitely better than the horror I've subjected them to.<br /><br />When I was five, I tried to talk Mom into putting Gregor out with the garbage, but nothing doing.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-39280915339049369462011-02-12T19:01:56.870-08:002011-02-12T19:01:56.870-08:00Well it's a pleasure to meet both Vicky and Ge...Well it's a pleasure to meet both Vicky and Gerg. Chris has brought much joy over the years to the World O' Crap Family, so I can only imagine what he's brought to his actual family.<br /><br />And as an amateur photographer, I would be happy and honored to snap the pix if you guys ever reassemble to pose in front of fading and peeling Gene Krupa.<br /><br />Welcome!Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-14024890663354562842011-02-12T18:53:20.127-08:002011-02-12T18:53:20.127-08:00Oh, man. Allow me to also introduce my older broth...Oh, man. Allow me to also introduce my older brother, Greg (above), who when he first logged into AOL mistyped his name as "Gerg" and despite many attempts to apprise AOL of the error and correct it, well, nothing doing, so he finally gave up and changed his name, with the aid of a lawyer, to "Gerg".<br /><br />"It's easier this way," he said at the time.<br /><br />Gerg, or as I call him, "Gregor", introduced me, back in the sixties and early seventies, to many of my favorite bands, and is easily my favorite drummer-- I played with him a couple times, and I'm tellin ya, he's the shit.<br /><br />About a block and a half north of me on Vine, there is a yellowing poster of Gene Krupa in the storefront of the Hollywood Drum Shop, which Gregor and I posed for a photo in front of back in the sixties. <br /><br />The poster is still there, and I keep trying to get Gregor out to LA for another photo shoot-- we're talking forty years later--, but to no avail (he's trapped in Maryland).<br /><br />Thanks for that Gregor!Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-8695789067637640372011-02-12T16:08:52.727-08:002011-02-12T16:08:52.727-08:00Nice to know that if I have to attend your funeral...Nice to know that if I have to attend your funeral, all I need to bring is a match.Gergvosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-58089630378351754432011-02-12T14:59:21.339-08:002011-02-12T14:59:21.339-08:00Thanks, darlin, now I can die with a smile on my f...Thanks, darlin, now I can die with a smile on my face.<br /><br />Allow me to introduce to you all my younger sister Victoria, above, who is the smartest Vosburg of all, though she doesn't know it. Next thing I'll get my Mom to comment, or my brother. Then I can start in on the nieces.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-13601559380635921672011-02-12T13:56:44.317-08:002011-02-12T13:56:44.317-08:00"My family is on notice: when I go, strip me ..."My family is on notice: when I go, strip me for parts, cremate the remains, pack them in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lunchbox and chuck it in the nearest dumpster".<br /><br />**duly noted. :)<br /><br />With Much Love,<br />The Other SisterVickynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-42553199013674220402011-02-12T07:11:16.507-08:002011-02-12T07:11:16.507-08:00And Scott: Joey Ramone is in Hollywood Forever, so...And Scott: Joey Ramone is in Hollywood Forever, so he'll counter the Adolphe Menjou-countering John Huston vote.<br /><br />Your move.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-59217252931908138882011-02-12T07:01:51.363-08:002011-02-12T07:01:51.363-08:00Last add last add:
I'm afraid I have a dark a...Last add last add:<br /><br />I'm afraid I have a dark and, to many, deeply offensive disregard of the sanctity of the dead. <br /><br />A friend once reminisced about the times she used to go golfing with "her late father" and I couldn't resist a good straight line, "wasn't that complicated, hauling his corpse around in a golf cart?" <br /><br />She patiently responded that there were times she'd like to smack me right the fuck off my feet, and she meant it, and I apologized.<br /><br />Passing the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on bicycle, it's all I can do to resist asking the folks I meet leaving the grounds, "so, still dead?"<br /><br />Like I say, a little dark. Perhaps this is how I keep death at bay; by making light of it-- whistling past the graveyard.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-54776801628543850952011-02-12T06:46:57.042-08:002011-02-12T06:46:57.042-08:00As a last add, I'm personally offended by the ...As a last add, I'm personally offended by the idea of packing up dead people into a really nice walnut finished shipping crate-- and burying it in the ground. It's barbaric.<br /><br />My family is on notice: when I go, strip me for parts, cremate the remains, pack them in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lunchbox and chuck it in the nearest dumpster.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-198164516998210612011-02-07T20:23:09.489-08:002011-02-07T20:23:09.489-08:00Hollywood Forever doesn't just do horror movie...Hollywood Forever doesn't just do horror movies, they do classics ("Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" is the one I saw there). It IS a fun thing to do on a warm summer evening.Tehanunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-27832583389953755502011-02-06T16:43:34.166-08:002011-02-06T16:43:34.166-08:00Chris' review of the entertaining goings-on at...Chris' review of the entertaining goings-on at his local restored garden of rest reminds me a little of the description of the black cemetery in "To Kill a Mockingbird", with the cheery home-made decorations on the gravestones. <br /><br />The big municipal cemetery with landscaped grounds was a Victorian invention, and fit right in with that era's emphasis on funerary rites. The 19th C London cemeteries, with sweeping vistas, picturesque groves and rolling lawns, were designed for family outings. People would combine visits to family gravesides with Sunday picnics, being on more intimate terms with their deceased relatives than we are. I don't believe they encouraged them to vote, however. That would have to wait.Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com