My cry of grief is pitched at 200 to 400 Hz modulated at 1 Hz, interrupted every 6 seconds for .5 seconds. posted by seanyboy at 9:09 AM on August 21, 2007
Blind genius, deceased; age 5. posted by yhbc at 9:21 AM on August 21, 2007
He was a character, although he himself did not appear, in the Twin Cities-based Web short film series Chasing Windmills, in which I did appear, but was not a character.
His death is genuinely being mourned here in the Twin Cities, which usually does not have much use for weirdos. posted by Astro Zombie at 9:26 AM on August 21, 2007
I read the NY Times obit yesterday; very interesting stuff on someone I knew mostly from one-off comments and mentions in Steve Wozniak's autobiography.
. posted by inigo2 at 10:08 AM on August 21, 2007
I am a child of the Zzzzyzzerrific Funline. Much time was spent listening to his kooky rants (and they were rants - I don't know how he got the answering machine tape to go so long) and I called frequently to hear updates. It was one of those staples you have for a little while as a kid, find something else and move on. But when I heard of his passing, another little piece of my youth went with him.
I am very sad that in the six years I lived in St. Paul in the nineties, I never heard about Joybubbles. He sounds like the kind of person I really would have admired. And he's got just the best name.
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posted by roll truck roll at 8:39 AM on August 21, 2007