Yes to all of the above.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 April 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
I used to run into Paul Auster quite a bit in NYC and talked to him briefly sometimes and once even to SIri but the son never came up for some reason.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
Not sure if I understand the storySo this was not an accident?This guy killed a baby…on purpose?
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
Could have been some form of negligence. However you slice it, it’s not pretty.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
"Wouldn't stop cryin;, so I gave 'er just a little bit," maybe
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
Ugh
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
Maybe the baby was digging around and came across heroin and fentanyl and chewed on it. Whatever happened, so damn grim.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Monday, 18 April 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
Dan is a childhood friend of one of my oldest and closest friends. We hung out a bunch of times before the Angel menendez thing. He seemed to have eventually turned his life around and my friend reconnected with him while his gf was pregnant with the baby. He was so happy.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
They spoke after her death and he was distraught. Said it was SIDS. This is all so horrific and fucked up. I think it was almost certainly accidental ingestion knowing what I know but fucking hell. And, yeah, his mom is Lydia D.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
many x-posts - I sincerely doubt it was on purpose. Horrific regardless though.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
I'm sorry. A social worker friend has told me about such things, but gratuitous speculation here, and an accident does seem more likely.
― dow, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 02:45 (two years ago) link
If his mom is Lydia Davis, why does the NYT article focus exclusively on his dad? (I had no idea that Davis and Auster had been married, though I see it was brief.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
Because Auster is more famous than Davis, I imagine.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
Yes.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:48 (two years ago) link
But still.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 04:49 (two years ago) link
Just realized I wrote Menendez but obv meant Melendez. Yeah I assume because he’s more famous. Also - he’s written characters that are very obviously based on him and it’s been a very fraught relationship from what I can tell so maybe that’s why? And no need for sorries. I haven’t seen the guy since the late 90s and then only socially etc. It’s just an awful situation and my friend is so upset. I can’t stop thinking about it though. It’s just horrific.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 07:15 (two years ago) link
Daniel Auster is dead of an overdose:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/nyregion/daniel-auster-dead-arrest-overdose.html
― o. nate, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
awful
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Yeah. The details surrounding it are fucking awful too but not anything I could/would share. Just unimaginably tragic.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link