One Old Green Bus

Post details: Wow... it's odd... sad... and... odd.

09/06/08

12:00:01 am, by

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Categories: Half-Butt Postings

Wow... it's odd... sad... and... odd.

Despite all the things I have to keep me going, believe it or not, sometimes I get bored. I know, you're shocked...

That said, one of those times, long ago, I was looking for information on an actor... someone who I'd seen many times as a kid and I also knew he had a music career to boot.

I went online, desperately trying to remember this fellows name... and ended up on a site through my searches... The Dead People Server.

Now, this was a few years back... before the IMDB had really hit a stride... so finding this page with my search parameters came as a shock... after all, I didn't think this fellow was no longer with us... and if he was, it would be like losing a tiny bit more of my youth with memories of his movies still fairly fresh in my noggin.

Indeed, at the time, he wasn't deceased... he was quite alive! This is because the "DPS" catalogues pretty much everyone of note... and lets you know if they are with us or have joined the choir invisible... and as stated, my chap indeed was with us back then.

Well, imagine my surprise when this week, I flipped on to the DPS main page and sadly, there he was...

Jerry Reed, he of country music fame and Burt Reynolds' movies, passed away on August 31st...

I know what you're thinking...

Aren't you an old "gothy" kinda guy? What gives with country music and Burt movies?

Well, I admit... and please, don't hate me... I'm not a country music fan... that said, however, I am an old Burt Reynolds movie fan... and have very fond memories of watching the flicks on TV with my dad many moons ago.

...and as a guitarist, I never held a "preference" for styles when it comes to talent... and Jerry Reed was a very talented guitarist.

Ergo: Yes, I can hold a small if imperfect candle towards the memory of Jerry Reed... who's life lead me to a website that, rather disturbingly, lead me to find out about his recent departure.

It's been an odd sorta week.

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Comment from: Sassy Mama Bear [Visitor]

· http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/

Yeah it was a shock and sad news, we also lost a great voice talent and Snoopy illustrator this week, as well as a motorcylce racer who died in a speed test.
I can see you being a Smokey and the Bandit fan, I can see it. What about Convoy?

Permalink 09/06/08 @ 12:15

Comment from: Sassy Mama Bear [Visitor]

· http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/

Oh I have something for you at The Cafe...http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/09/not-string-in-sight.html

Permalink 09/06/08 @ 12:16

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey Penelope Anne... Thanks for the nutty award... and yeah, it's been a bad few months for losing people...

Permalink 09/06/08 @ 16:04

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses for now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live as does our dream! (It's just a little quieter on that latter bit...)

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