HOLY SH*T! moments

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John A Arkansawyer
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HOLY SH*T! moments

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A friend was over today and he brought up Chet Atkins, which reminded me of a story about an old friend from college, who'd gone from zero to sixty as a musician between tenth grade and getting his degree, and the time he stopped Chet Atkins during a performance so they could start it over. (Chet had missed a cue in the opening, a back and forth between him and my friend playing percussion.)

"What ever happened to him?" I thought, "I'd like to get him to tell the story again. I'm not sure I have it exactly right," and Googled him. I'd done so before a time or two and come up dry. This time, I found the obituary. He'd died a decade ago at fifty-two, predeceased by his wife, forty-six, and leaving behind a kid, after having worked as a musician and in music for some time.

There weren't contributed memories on the obituary page, which seemed odd, and which left me melancholy and unsatisfied. I wanted some sense of what his friends were like and what they had to say about him. So I did a little more searching, having finally gotten the variation on his first and last name right. (His first name has multiple variant spellings; his last name has multiple variants.)

This time I found the news story: Man Found Dead of Gunshot Identified. "Geez!" I thought. "I wonder what happened." I read on to find he'd killed himself after killing his wife. He shot her dead, wrote a detailed note, called the cops, went to the railroad track, and shot himself. Money issues, one of the musicians quoted said he'd heard. (Not musicians any of you would recognize; other than my friend, I wouldn't have expected to.)

The detailed note and the call to the cops make sense. The rest of it I am utterly unable to understand. Holy shit! What happened? He was a really good guy when I knew him. What the fuck?
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be

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What the fuck indeed.

And a reminder that there are a lot of human stories behind headlines we routinely read and dismiss or ignore or make cynical jokes about.
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Re: HOLY SH*T! moments

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So I couldn't leave this alone and started searching harder for some sign of his existence beyond his death, and you know what I found? His name right next to Joe Cripps in a UNT program book. They were in a percussion ensemble together.
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be

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