RIP Leonard Nimoy
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Leonard played an iconic character that will give us all a lasting memory.
Rip
May the Shwartz be with you!
A dark day. His last tweet was simple, beautiful, and poignant:
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
2:36 AM - 23 Feb 2015
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
2:36 AM - 23 Feb 2015
The more I think about this, the more it saddens me. To lose a truly good man, even though he lived a good, long life, just seems especially unfair.
If I didn't have to drive to Buffalo tomorrow with SWMBO for shopping, I'd be raising a few glasses to him this evening. I just watched Them! a month or so ago in which he plays an uncredited part as an Army guy.
The man lived a life most any of us would trade places with, and lived into his 80's. Can't ask for much more, if anything, than that IMO.
RIP
RIP
I feel so blessed to have had the modern equivalent of Shakespeare piped into an electronic box in my living room in my formative years. I needed to know how to feel, and Nimoy showed me without telling. That is why I weep today. I know I'm not alone in this.
I dunno if I'm weeping. I'm with Rockminer...the man had a long full life and will live on for ages in the public mind as Spock.
Celebrity deaths are odd in that they don't really effect the relationship I had with the person in question, other than I know that there won't be Nimoy as Old Spock in the reboot. For me, he lives on as he always has, in that show and those movies, unchanged.
These celebrity passings are almost like burma-shave signs in that individual trip to eternity. Milestones, sure, and certainly appropriate times for introspection and reflection. But weeping? I just have to fire up Netflix or pop in a DVD and there they are, as alive as ever, on the bridge, McCoy and Scotty too, struggling through space without circuit breakers or seat belts.
I'm as geeky as the next nerd, but I'll raise a glass of Saurian Brandy in fond memory and watch an episode instead of mourning too deeply. Besides, I've got that fight music from "Amok Time" stuck in my head, and that's just doesn't allow for depression.
Celebrity deaths are odd in that they don't really effect the relationship I had with the person in question, other than I know that there won't be Nimoy as Old Spock in the reboot. For me, he lives on as he always has, in that show and those movies, unchanged.
These celebrity passings are almost like burma-shave signs in that individual trip to eternity. Milestones, sure, and certainly appropriate times for introspection and reflection. But weeping? I just have to fire up Netflix or pop in a DVD and there they are, as alive as ever, on the bridge, McCoy and Scotty too, struggling through space without circuit breakers or seat belts.
I'm as geeky as the next nerd, but I'll raise a glass of Saurian Brandy in fond memory and watch an episode instead of mourning too deeply. Besides, I've got that fight music from "Amok Time" stuck in my head, and that's just doesn't allow for depression.
Watched The Savage Curtain for old times sake.
Gone, but never forgotten.
Gone, but never forgotten.
I watched "The City on the Edge of Forever" a week ago, got to cue up "Mirror, Mirror". Hooray for Bad Spock!
and of course, my all time favorite line from pre-Spock Spock in the Cage:
SPOCK: The women!
-jim
Radio interview about Nimoy's early years in Boston's West End.
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I hear you. That show, and its cast, took on a lot of social issues and helped some of us look at the world a little differently (for the better).
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It's a Jewish thing- you wouldn't understand.
I should have scrolled down- I posted a video about that. I didn't know until yesterday.
Thanks- that will probably be todays ear worm.
Well said. I think I will imbibe of the Romulan Ale.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one. RIP.
Even though he lived a long life--still very sad. RIP Spock.
Final salute from an Astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
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