We're human, trying to heal to this sound

[sovay]

Chadwick Boseman has died, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Knowing only his Prospero and his poetry, I found this remembrance of Heathcote Williams by his son a difficult read, like being parented by Mad Sweeney, but beautifully written and recognized.

Talking with selkie about the two or so seconds of Burn Gorman visible in the trailer for Enola Holmes (2020) has reminded me that I still have umpty-bazillion feelings about Pacific Rim (2013), including right now maximal resentment of an apocalypse in which it is significantly more difficult to shake hands awkwardly with someone before doing something stupidly, recklessly, selflessly world-saving with them. Which would be a nice option to have on the table, handshake or no.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I was so heartbroken to read of Boseman's death. He was beautiful, and brought such dignity to everything he did.

[sovay]

I was so heartbroken to read of Boseman's death. He was beautiful, and brought such dignity to everything he did.

I am sick of the deaths of people who bettered the world while somehow the people who worsen it still hang on.

[minoanmiss]

*raises a light to Chadwick's memory*

[sovay]

*raises a light to Chadwick's memory*

I like that form of remembrance. I have been saying, his memory for a blessing. His life already was.

[thomasyan]

Yes, Boseman's death was an unpleasant surprise when I checked the news before bed. Way too soon.

[sovay]

Yes, Boseman's death was an unpleasant surprise when I checked the news before bed. Way too soon.

Not knowing that he had been ill made it even more of a blow. At least with older artists, the awareness of the possibility is there. People in their prime, even in the middle of a pandemic, you don't expect it.

[asakiyume]

I was so surprised by that news :(

[sovay]

I was so surprised by that news

I didn't see it coming and I don't like that it did.

[alexxkay]

I first ran into Heathcote Williams as a joke in Neil Gaiman's "Being an Experiment...". Years later, I had a brief correspondence with him. He wanted to buy some Elizabethan books I had reprinted by Robert Greene, as research for a movie role.

[sovay]

I first ran into Heathcote Williams as a joke in Neil Gaiman's "Being an Experiment...".

I don't know if I've read that. If I did, it was before the name meant anything to me. I first ran into him as Jarman's Prospero.

Years later, I had a brief correspondence with him. He wanted to buy some Elizabethan books I had reprinted by Robert Greene, as research for a movie role.

Did he? And what movie?

[alexxkay]

The Gaiman story is mildly amusing in prose, but hilarious read aloud. Which, luckily, someone has uploaded.

I did send him the books. I remember saying I didn't need payment, as the books were largely dead inventory at that point; don't recall if he insisted on paying anyways.

The movie may have fallen through, as I don't see a credit in IMDB for such a role. Then again, perhaps he had his historical Greene's confuzzled, as he *did* play publisher *Nick* Greene in Orlando (1992). Although that doesn't work, since I didn't start that publishing project until 1993. It is a puzzlement.

[selkie]

If we end up having to fight monsters of various guises while quite possibly endangering our immediate existence and that of entire metropolitan areas, I promise I will very un-sensibly take my mask off and shake your hand. Or equivalent.

[sovay]

If we end up having to fight monsters of various guises while quite possibly endangering our immediate existence and that of entire metropolitan areas, I promise I will very un-sensibly take my mask off and shake your hand. Or equivalent.

I'll bring my sweater vest.

[oracne]

Definitely unacceptable. *cries*

[sovay]

*cries*

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

It seems so unfair that someone like Chadwick Boseman should die so young, when the worst of the worst just keep right on going.

[sovay]

It seems so unfair that someone like Chadwick Boseman should die so young, when the worst of the worst just keep right on going.

Yes. I know the universe isn't fair, but it could stop feeling unfair any second now.