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One Request about "Die in a Fire"

I know this isn't my blog, but I spend more time here than I do there, and I have one simple request.  "Die in a Fire" took on a special meaning to me today, as I had a bit of a scare this afternoon.

I got a call at work from my son's babysitter. My son had been napping on the couch in the living room (per usual custom at that time of day), and her teenage daughter was watching him while our babysitter took her grandson to get his haircut.  The daughter smelled smoke, and grabbed my son and ran over to a neighbor's house.  The neighbor called 911, in spite of not seeing any smoke or flames, and the babysitter returned home to find the firefighters in her house.  Seconds later, the firefighters came scrambling outside, and the house (duplex) was engulfed in flames.  

Fortunately the daughter knew what to do, and got everyone out of the house, in spite of not seeing flame or smoke.  Had they still been in there, it would've been disasterous!  I definitely wouldn't be here typing right now.  

So -- I'm gonna be a little more sensitive to that whole phrase, having experienced that.  I want to see Dudley Dumbass thrown to the curve as much as darn near everyone 'round here.  But I definitely don't want him, or anyone, to even have to suffer what our babysitter (and my son) experienced this afternoon.  I don't wish that on my biggest enemy (and there are many people further down the list than Hargrove, as odd as that may seem)!

Thanks for your consideration!  

Edited to add:

Fortunately our babysitter had excellent renter's insurance. She'll be put up in a hotel until she finds a new rental, and will have financial help getting back on her feet. Even if you don't have much stuff you care about, it's well worth the expense to keep you afloat while you're in shock and trying to figure out what to do to find some normalcy. It's really not horribly expensive, and better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

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Glad your son's okay
And ::points at Goose:: that was him.

Okay, SRSLY, tho, I'll stick to the typical 'Bite Willie's schlong' and 'Eat shit and get fired' sort of catcalls with Grover.

by Gomez on Aug 18, 2006 7:57 PM PDT reply actions  

Joseph Campbell tells us
that "death" and "birth" are equal, as two sides of the same duality, and fire is simply "transformation," because you see, fire on earth consumes, but fire in the sky creates life.  So, obviously Goose really just meant that he wanted Hargrove to be transformed into a fetus in a different country (or on a different planet).  Surely we can all agree with this.

by chaney on Aug 18, 2006 8:22 PM PDT reply actions  

So, in the Hero's Journey
Is Hargrove's refusal to play Adam Jones and bench Willie Bloomquist the "Refusal of the Call"?

by Gomez on Aug 18, 2006 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm thinking that Hargrove is playing the role
of the parental Ogre figure who was once himself the hero but who, through clinging to familiar forms and resistance to divine transformation, has made himself the villain.

by chaney on Aug 18, 2006 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

Truly glad your son is okay
We say the same thing about our home biz, "It's really not horribly expensive, and better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."

Let me know if you need anything.

by ppl4life on Aug 18, 2006 10:48 PM PDT reply actions  

Ok, then instead of die in a fire
How about "Die in a woodchipper"?
Fire Mike Hargrove!

by Goose on Aug 19, 2006 2:19 AM PDT reply actions  

Won't work
Only the "experienced" flowers will bloom. The new flowers will be held down until they wither from lack of sunlight and nourishment. And besides, the whole damn place will just smell like shit.

by kva15 on Aug 19, 2006 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions  

Oh So True...
I killed a 12 pack just to watch it die...

by Dollar97 on Aug 19, 2006 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions  

Encase Hargrove
in a block of ice, so that his idicy can be studied by future generations.

by MtGrizzly on Aug 19, 2006 10:34 AM PDT reply actions  

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