From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #108 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, July 24 2012 Volume 10 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] For The Records [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] For The Records [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Depleted Uranium alert! [Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For The Records Sad news indeed. I never saw his TV show, but I knew who he was. He introduces Soundgarden in the Motorvision live concert video. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:14:02 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] For The Records I knew one loud-fan who thought this place was over and dead with back in the '90s. So while I'll never get a chance to stand inside it, I'm glad that it survived this much longer, at least. Not a good season for local institutions (see below), Andy Obituary: "J.P. Patches," Seattle's beloved TV clown By Jack Broom Seattle Times staff reporter Most people didn't even know his real name, but he was a bona fide piece of Seattle history, one that predated the Space Needle, the Mariners, the Seahawks and Microsoft. Chris Wedes, better known as TV clown J.P. Patches, died Sunday morning after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. He was 84. On television from 1958 to 1981, and in countless personal appearances since, Mr. Wedes delighted generations of Puget Sound-area children and adults with his zany antics and a style that was irreverent yet gentle. In his tattered hat, red nose and colorful patchwork coat, the character Mr. Wedes created, Julius Pierpont Patches, could cause all sorts of mayhem, tumbling off his tricycle, blasting himself into space and playing pranks on his TV guests. But he also reminded his tiny viewers, known as "Patches Pals," to follow the rules, which included minding Mommy and Daddy, saying your prayers and sharing your toys. He opened his last major public appearance, in September 2011, by leading the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. His unrehearsed Emmy-winning show, which ran weekday mornings and afternoons on KIRO-TV, had an audience of more than 100,000 people at its peak. "In my opinion, Chris Wedes  J.P. Patches  had a greater emotional impact on more people in the Puget Sound area than any person in the last 50 years," said Bryan Johnston, who cowrote a biography of Mr. Wedes. The Patches show was put together without a script, drawing on the improvisational skills of Mr. Wedes and actor Bob Newman, whose many roles included that of J.P.'s masculine-looking girlfriend, Gertrude; Ketchikan the Animal Man, and Boris S. Wort, the "world's second-meanest man." "Everyone remembers him," Newman said. "He left such a mark; he will never be forgotten." Newman last saw his friend a few months ago. "He was gradually going down, but the clown hung in there for a long time." [--from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018749756_chriswedesobit23m.html?cmpid=2628 ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:29:35 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Depleted Uranium alert! On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM, tgalczynski@gmail.com < tgalczynski@comcast.net> wrote: > Sounds much better! Gonna see Brave today. Pixar movie. :-) enjoy ur last > full day! Tq xxx > Is this Indie Hipster talk? I don't understand it, except for the part about Brave. Last full day? Is it the end of the world? There's so many things I haven't done yet, like watched Steel Magnolias. - --Rog ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #108 ********************************