MonkeyFilter | Spalding Gray is Missing.

January 15, 2004

Spalding Gray is Missing. The monologuist hasn't been seen since Sunday. Phone home Spalding!

Sad.
Sorry.

posted by beeswacky at 09:10PM UTC on January 15, 2004

He's always got such a a great way to tell stories - everytime I see one of the movies or him live I think "I should do that". I wonder how much of it is just thinking out loud and how much of it is carefully planned.

Hopefully they'll find him okay - maybe in a spider hole . . or a waffle house.

posted by Anonymous at 09:21PM UTC on January 15, 2004

he's swimming to cambodia.

posted by SideDish at 09:24PM UTC on January 15, 2004

Maybe he got into the time machine that spit out this post and is currently hanging out in the beginning of the week.

Plus I bet Jorn Barger knows where he is.

posted by Keith Talent at 09:28PM UTC on January 15, 2004

Also, James Lawrence, guitarist for Hope of the States, was found dead today, having hung himself.

Terrible news.

posted by Blaise Bailey Finnegan at 09:30PM UTC on January 15, 2004

he's swimming to cambodia.

extremely cruel... and funny. Nice!

I do feel sad for him. I though he was as cheerful as he appeared to be in his monologues. I'll miss him.

posted by Zemat at 10:43PM UTC on January 15, 2004

deeply distressing. don't write him off already, please.
please.
please.

posted by forksclovetofu at 03:58AM UTC on January 16, 2004

Agreed.

posted by Cheeky Monkey at 05:25AM UTC on January 16, 2004

Yup - I keep watching the CNN story - it's updated every day at least.

posted by Anonymous at 02:45PM UTC on January 16, 2004

Still nothing.

posted by forksclovetofu at 07:44AM UTC on January 18, 2004

John Perry Barlow remembers.

*sigh*

posted by Anonymous at 03:35PM UTC on January 19, 2004

That is a touching piece of writing. Like everyone says, I hope it's not his eulogy.

posted by tracicle at 08:16PM UTC on January 19, 2004

I haven't heard "Monster in a Box" in a long time.

posted by Anonymous at 06:18AM UTC on January 21, 2004

I'm sure I was one of thousands who had the chance to help Spalding Gray, and my interaction with him was so brief that he wouldn't remember it now, in Nirvana, or a klesha, or sitting on a beach by the Indian Ocean. But I had a chance to help and I either did nothing or worse than nothing, depending on how you count someone's tears.

The last line of Swimming to Cambodia is "I suddenly thought I knew what killed Marilyn Monroe."

I've known for years what killed Spalding Gray.

posted by petebest at 05:24AM UTC on October 03, 2005

thaks for that link, petebest. it's a hell of an article.

posted by patita at 02:34AM UTC on October 04, 2005

Thanks pete. Although, I think the guy's being a little hard on himself.

posted by Koko at 12:26PM UTC on October 04, 2005

Thanks, pete. It's nice to have a bit of an oral history to the guy.

posted by Capt. Renault at 02:51PM UTC on October 04, 2005

i still miss him

posted by ethylene at 12:50AM UTC on October 10, 2005

Sighs.

posted by BearGuy at 03:14AM UTC on February 09, 2006

BearGuy, interesting that you have uncovered a comment by ethylene, lucid and relevant not long before her...well I don't even know what to call it. I hope the subject matter of this thread is not too specific to her state of mind???

posted by Medusa at 03:57AM UTC on February 09, 2006

Yeah, what she said.

posted by petebest at 01:54PM UTC on February 09, 2006

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