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Matt Thrower
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today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names
And which group of voters do politicians listen to?
My dad would've been 93 today had he not passed aged 88. A lifelong Francophile, here he is modelling Carcassonne in his Carcassonne sweatern
I kind of wanted people to respond to this bc it worries me a lot. I just don't dwell on this stuff as much or as deeply as I used to. I don't know if it's bc I've made up my mind about things, or my attention span has shrunk, or my brain can't cope anymore. None of those are good things.
He never really understood the appeal of games but was very willing to try them - see the Carcassonne photo - if only to see if he could work out what I enjoyed so much. He tried D&D a couple of times but would always turn left in dungeons as he'd read that stopped you getting lost in a labyrinth
He also had a taste for high culture even though he was also scruffy & disorganised & introduced me to some very fine authors and artists including my favourite poet. Years later I would write this in memory of both him & that poet - anyone guess who it might be?
1. Utterly incredible imagery of something bafflingly huge and bewilderingly distant
2. ‘Supersonic Jets from Young Stars’ is a *great* band name
The last time I saw him outside of hospital was in his nursing home - he'd had moderate dementia but we could still enjoy a reasonable conversation - I snuck in this bottle of whiskey & we shared a glass. I haven't touched it since, it's just littering the drinks cabinet :)
One reason I got so hard into games was remembering the fantasy stories he read me as a boy, especially the Hobbit. He was a talented amateur actor and a fine storyteller. At his eulogy, I had to include this snippet from LotR
