Yeah, that was an excellent summary steve
― treeship., Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
Until you met him, you realized not so much that his ILX persona was "bluster" but that the bluster was his way of forcing me not to take shit for granted, whether Assayas films or life.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
<3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Will miss his withering contempt in general, but especially for people that don't appreciate Spielberg.
― lukas, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
"I loved how he was like basically doing a stand up routine 24/7, he was so full of wit and commentary and humor, so observational, so much fun to be around, so full of warmth and kindness towards those who deserved it and an incredibly righteous anger to those who did not. I loved how unwavering he was and how steadfast he was in his worldview, and I truly admired how left-leaning he was for someone his age. He was really, really, really super, I loved him a lot and I’m gutted"
loved reading this Stevie
― Dan S, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Bill more than any ilx0r I have ever met was someone who once you met him you were like “ohhhhh now I get it” and then all of his posts made sense
this is incredibly otm; i feel like it’s somehow damning with faint praise to talk about what a nice guy he was IRL, but he was a really nice guy IRL!
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
aww, Dan M thank you for finding that. it's perfect.
i've been typing and erasing and typing and erasing and... idk... no matter how clearly he told us this was coming, there's a part of me that truly believed he'd survive us all through sheer cussedness and bc there was still so much more to drink in.
such a generous spirit, deeply written into the walls of this place... wishing peace and comfort to his loved ones and better days for us all.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
The best way to honor Morbs without schmaltz? Fucking watch an early '30s John Ford film tonight.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
and give Dennis Perrin tweets a few clicks
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
Well, shit.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
yeah i could never get seriously mad at his posts here after meeting him. we met up again in boston in 2015 and had a couple beers on a sunday afternoon and he was the same old bill, attending baseball stats conferences and catching up with friends. i guess in the back of my mind i thought we would hang out again someday but isn't that how it always is.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
and watch a lubitsch movie
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
When we finally arranged to watch a movie in Manhattan a decade ago and he wanted to nail down meeting details, I said, "You talk as if you don' own a cell phone."
"I don't," he said.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
I love that this was the first post in his own thread, Brigitte Mira 1910-2005:
Someone who was associated with more great films than Tarantino or Teresa Wright...http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,345411,00.html― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 9, 2005 1:33 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 9, 2005 1:33 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Teresa Wright, who died the day before.
Essential morbius
― flappy bird, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
"I’m gutted I’ll never get to have drinks with him at Julius again"
co-sign
― donna rouge, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
I’m so, so sad. We only hung a couple times but he was absolutely the sweetest. Love to Cathy and Stevie and those of you who were closest to him
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 22 October 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
When we finally arranged to watch a movie in Manhattan a decade ago and he wanted to nail down meeting details, I said, "You talk as if you don' own a cell phone." "I don't," he said.
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
doug henwood's reach is going to be cut in half overnight
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
RIP Morbs, one of my favorite posters
― badg, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
as a millennial it was SO baffling and also like “wow so this is what people did, huh”
lol stevie d
by the time i met him (2016) he had a cell phone, but proudly not a smartphone! <3
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
A flip phone in 2017 lol
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
he'd still be like every action movie film character in 2020 who inexplicably has an LG flip
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
he actually had a laptop in the hospital! but i couldn't walk him through opening the baseball book epubs i sent him
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
fuck
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
this is awful, i'm so sorry. good bye and take it easy, Dr.
― goole, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
Awful news. Never got to meet him in person, but he was very clearly a passionate guy and I learned a lot from him. RIP.
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
factual error! my brooklyn stint was 2014-16, so that was 2014
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
one of the few people who drove me up a fucking wall but i read everything he wrote. and, if it matters, he would probably get the last laugh as my politics have gotten closer to his as years advanced. what an awful thing.
― goole, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
I’m going to honor his memory by trying my best to move further to the left as I age. Not joking. If we all try to be a little more Morbius we can start to fill in a little bit of the gap that’s left today.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
Bill Weber was an example of Catholic dialectical grace: fight tooth and nail, offer words of comfort you wouldn't think are possible.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 21, 2020 8:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Beautifully said.
― Langdon Alger Stole the Highlights (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
rip bill
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
Here are the charitable organizations that Bill asked us to support: WFMU, Amnesty International, Society for American Baseball Research, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Silent Clowns Film Series.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
he was a sweetheart. gutted. i don't think he was a big biden guy but i wish bill could still be here on nov. 3rd to see trump get socked in the jaw.
― A Smedley Adoption (get bent), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
Goddamit all anyway. I’m glad he’s not in pain anymore.I liked you bill.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
He and I met here sparring on the Brokeback Mountain thread. I admired his prose here enough to ask him to write for the long defunct Stylus Magazine as a film critic. He genuinely scoffed at this job and what he did in Slant, but he was no fan: an incisive, precise writer who'd spent decades thinking about shit in film to know what worked and didn't. I especially admired him for throwing GREAT and GOOD at everything. "Don't lose your cool until you have to" is not a bad way to approach art.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
uh for NOT throwing
That makes a lot more sense.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Oh, no.Even if I hadn't been able to see through his cantankerous persona to the frustrated idealist underneath, the numerous indications from those who knew him as a person offboard were enough to tell that he was good and well-loved.I mentioned to him recently that I dreamt I'd met him irl (which I never actually did, unfortunately) and sang the opening refrains of 'Wedding Bell Blues' to him. He has the distinction of being the only ILXor to appear in my dreams.Bill, I love you so and always will.I'm really sad right now.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
I met Bill pretty soon after I moved to the city - maybe 2005 or 2006?I can't articulate anything but he was one of the best people I've had the privilege to know. Fierce af and also hilarious and kind and so smart.
Love you Bill.
― ian, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
but i wish bill could still be here on nov. 3rd to see trump get socked in the jaw.
I thought this too, but didn't post bcz it'd be even better to have him still here on Jan 3rd 2025, shouting about Biden
― Un-fooled and placid (sic), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
fuck, RIP
― Bee OK, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
― Un-fooled and placid (sic),
otm
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
Ahh reminds me of morbs in the noise board days xxp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
damn. really sorry to hear this. loved chatting with him on the Brewers threads. I assume he was a Wisconsinite??
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
bumped WFMU, demanded that they air a once-a-month hour of mekons called the king morbs flower hour
ok not really but definitely the first part
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
was anyone else surprised that Justice Stevens didn't hand Biden his robe and say "I quit" the second the VP oath was done?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:35 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
lol there it is
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
xp: He was from Newark iirc... Essex Co for sure.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 October 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
does Pseu post here anymore?