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The death of Lyman Bostock

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:47:17 +0000

Thirty years ago next week, during a heated division title race with the Kansas City Royals, star California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock was murdered in Gary, Indiana at the age of 27.

ESPN has a tribute.

He's the best baseball player you've never heard of, and quite possibly also the greatest human being you never heard of.

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Katelyn’s out of ICU!

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:27:59 +0000

There is lots of news on Katelyn, and almost all of it is good. Katelyn got out of ICU today. They removed all the tubes from her, except her feeding tube, which she has always had. She's in a private room, and the doctors say she ought to be able to go home in 2-5 days!

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Not just a haircut…

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:15:20 +0000

I got my hair cut yesterday. I'm pretty stoked about that.

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Recovery, Day 5.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:51:44 +0000

I didn't go see Emily on Wednesday night. Instead I went to see From Hell with my friends Jeanne and Tom. The theory it presented was interesting, but anyone who knows anything about Jack the Ripper knows it played awfully fast and loose with the facts. I can't say much more without spoiling it. I'd have gone to see it just because of my fascination with Film Noir, but From Hell seemed to me like an excuse to show a bunch of closeups of Johnny Depp and shots of Heather Graham dressed up like people imagine turn-of-the-century prostitutes looking. In other words, too much oogle and not enough plot. I think the directors realized this wasn't enough, so they added a sex scene and a few female-female French kisses. And of course lots of blood. I'd have preferred a less-predictable storyline and a little more intrigue.

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Recovery, Day 3.

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 31 Oct 2001 06:21:54 +0000

I saw Emily again last night. My heart sank a little when they said at the front desk she was still in ICU, but Emily was a lot better yesterday. She was much more alert, and I saw her give a couple of people dirty looks, including me. She talked about the people who came to see her. She remembered me coming to see her, but she thought it was during the day rather than Monday night. Narcotics do that, and she's still on strong stuff. I'm surprised how much she remembers from yesterday, but I doubt she'll remember a whole lot a week from now. I know when I've messed myself up seriously, codeine seriously killed the flashbulb effect, and she's on stronger stuff than codeine.

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Recovery.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:18:46 +0000

I went and saw Emily last night. She was beat up, but not as badly as you'd expect someone who'd been thrown from a car to be. She was still in ICU because they're worried about her spleen. She was in pretty good spirits considering everything she'd been through in the past 36 hours.

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When bad things happen to good people…

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:07:58 +0000

When bad things happen to good people. A couple of weeks ago, I got e-mail from a friend I'll just call by her nickname, Hammer. Hammer moved to upstate New York this summer, after having lived in a small Illinois town outside of St. Louis her whole life. Hammer e-mails her friends a lot, and she's probably the wordiest and most vocal person I know, myself included. Hammer told me (and others) about a longime friend who'd been going to our church for the past six months, who wanted to join our small group, but didn't know any of us.

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