I have a long-standing dread of January. The month isn’t always miserable, but for the last 18 Januaries, more often than not, it has not been kind to me. Unfortunately, this last one has landed firmly in the not kind pile. My last grandparent, Grandma Pye, passed away. She was 96. When we were little, […]
Category Archives: so long
So Long, Tom Lorimer
This happened back in May so I’m sure some of you already know about it, but I had no idea until today when I randomly thought about the Whitestick website and popped over there for the first time in quite a while and saw this message near the top. In Memoriam On May 8th, 2019 […]
Bill Vastis is gone too soon.
I’ve needed to write this for about a month, but of course I’m behind. You’ll notice I haven’t written the post from Christmas, and that needs to be written too, but this needs to be written first. Late last month, I got the shocking news that Bill Vastis had died. Bill was someone I met […]
Some Radio Retirements
Seriously, I’m getting old. The last few years have really driven that home. Everyone I grew up on seems to either be retirement age or dead now. New to the retirement pile is Eddie Matthews, who has spent the last two decades or so as the morning guy at CJCS or Juice FM or whatever […]
Mildred Myrtle Ward-Ardiel June 22 1919-Jan. 22 2009
Apparently today is the tenth anniversary of the death of one of Gill’s grandmothers and she has a few words to say about it. Grandmas are the best, and I’m extremely lucky to still have one. I would like to take a moment out of the business of life to talk to you about someone […]
A Miserable Day For Childhood Steve
2019 seems to be getting off to a rather 2016-like start on the celebrity death front. Mean Gene Okerlund and Super Dave Osborne both died today. Both were 76 and awesome in their own ways. Mean Gene is the best wrestling interviewer I’ve ever seen. He had a way of making bad promos decent and […]
So Long, Aunt Merle
I should at least do this in the right year. I don’t know if I wrote about my one great-aunt much. It doesn’t look like I did. She lived across the street from my grandma and they used to go back and forth pretty regularly. She was single her whole life, and seemed to enjoy […]
So Long To The Dynamite Kid
John Pollock of PostWrestling.com has done a very good story about the life of the Dynamite Kid. It’s hard to write about a life and career like his since Tom Billington was equal parts one of the most influential wrestlers of all time and complete fucking prick, but I think this is about as good […]
Gill Remembers A Family Friend
Our condolences to Gill and anyone else who knows this lady. In Memory of Leona Knott Oct. 26 1928-Nov. 24 2018 I was getting my breakfast ready when a family friend called to inform me that someone who had been a large part of my childhood had past on. A Good Neighbor When I was […]
Some Little Kid Memories Of Nikolai Volkoff
There haven’t been as many So Long posts lately as there used to be, and that’s intentional. To be quite honest, I don’t particularly enjoy writing them. Some folks, even when you appreciate whatever it was they did, just don’t inspire a whole lot of words or draw out much in the way of specific […]
