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Jun 08, 2018 12:53

Over on Facebook two friends posted about suicide, one above the other. One talked about having it all and still kinda wanting to kill oneself, zir experiences with such thoughts, pointed to Leo from West Wing on alcoholism, wanting a drink, not doing so, maybe tomorrow as kinda the same thing as that feeling kept at bay. That first one had opened with "in light of Spade and Bourdain." The second had been more in the vein of 'please reach out' but had also had some personal connection to Bourdain. And noted that he seemed the embodiment of life lived to the full and still couldn't bridge that chasm. They were both really beautiful posts. To the latter, I commented Immediately above your post was another about depression and suicidal thoughts and how one can have it all and yet still, and he opened with "In light of Spade and Bourdain" and I thought, wait, what? And I googled and... omg. And it's weird. Someone who I knew for getting close to 20 years died yesterday, but I guess that'd been a possibility for a while and an eventuality for weeks, and I'm shocked and upset about Bourdain. (But not going to post, because I haven't posted here yet about her ; - / )
But yeah. Maybe it's because it's a shock, maybe it's because watching Parts Unknown or reading Kitchen Confidential feels like getting to know someone. I last thought about Bourdain when reading about his upcoming episode in Trump Country, which I forgot to look for. Watched a fair amount of Parts Unknown at Dad's. Maybe it's a selfish sadness over no more of his body of work, his window into the world? i went looking for the Bourdain Obama episode and of course it's at the top of the hits with something new written about it eighteen minutes ago, or perhaps it's just an update. I feel like I need to put something on FB about Sue. This entry was originally posted at https://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/1656422.html. You can add to the
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bourdain, death, suicide

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