Joybubbles R.I.P.

August 21, 2007 8:16 AM

Joybubbles (1949 - 2007) [previously]
posted by mcstayinskool (18 comments total)

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People who abuse children are the worst.
posted by roll truck roll at 8:39 AM on August 21, 2007

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posted by smoothvirus at 8:41 AM on August 21, 2007

I was glad yesterday when I saw the NYT ran an obit for him.

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posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 8:46 AM on August 21, 2007

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posted by Mitheral at 8:53 AM on August 21, 2007

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

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posted by YoBananaBoy at 9:10 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

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posted by jtron at 10:03 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.
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posted by inigo2 at 10:08 AM on August 21, 2007

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posted by jkaczor at 10:44 AM on August 21, 2007

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posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:03 AM on August 21, 2007

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posted by gcbv at 12:49 PM on August 21, 2007

Huh. I felt almost like I knew him after reading the infamous Esquire article.

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posted by evilcolonel at 12:59 PM 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.

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posted by DonnieSticks at 3:55 PM on August 21, 2007

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 perilous at 12:03 AM on August 22, 2007

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(Little sine waves.)
posted by orthogonality at 5:08 AM on August 22, 2007

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posted by annasbrew at 5:30 PM on August 22, 2007