Posted on 08/13/2014 1:54:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Robin Williams was everywhere in San Francisco, it seemed, as he made a place for himself in the everyday fabric of a city where he once said he passed for normal.
The comedian was there to usher a few fellow inhabitants of the Bay Area into life—visiting a pediatric ward, unheralded, each year on Christmas Day to welcome newborns to the world.
He also ushered friends out of life—delivering a boisterous eulogy for an iconic local journalist known as Mr. San Francisco, musing on heaven as a nice bar in the city with a dry martini. …
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Not this last time he didnt.
I liked SF too.
It’s way too expensive, tho...
Great restaurants, architecture, art, and sweeping vistas BUT FULL OF POOPY BUMS AND DEEPLY HOSTILE TO KIDS.
I think the homoz are ok but they’re really, really taking over and genuine tolerance of differences is a trillion miles away from their minds.
Tiburon doesn’t smell like pee, but SF sure does....
Tiburon would indeed be a nice place to live...
It seems even Williams couldn’t afford to live there in the style he was used to - the British press is reporting he was worried about money as well.
I read somewhere that Williams was living in the small bungalow his mother owned for many years.
Bay Area made him feel normal?
It probably kept him nuts.
My thoughts exactly.
If Fag City makes one feel normal, then yeah...
Suicide is a natural result.
Robin Williams: Bay Area made him feel normalDuring Williams's first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he met in 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming that he did not tell her he was infected with the herpes simplex virus before he embarked on a sexual relationship with her in the mid-1980s, during which, she said, he transmitted the virus to her. The case was settled out of court.
Well he went to the right place. Parnassus Ave. Way high up with an amazing view of the Pacific Ocean and all around SF.
I miss Robin already. Something about him I liked.
Pretty sure he used to live just east of there. I lived in that area in the late 80’s and thought he owned a home just a couple of blocks east of UCSF south of Parnassus.
What is normal in an asylum?
These days, nuts is normal and normal is nuts.
-PJ
Dang, I somehow knew your music already..!!!
Hey, that’s some good stuff..!
In my own way, I stubbornly love The City, too.
In many ways it is very hard to surpass and that’s why I’m sort of worried about some of the things I’ve been seeing there.
I always liked him as an entertainer.
The more I read about him, since his death, the clearer it is what an ordinary, conventional secularist he was. Lots of sentimental, safe benevolence—entertaining the troops, being kind to children and puppies, etc. But a trail of destruction in his private life: Aborted one of his children; sex, drugs, alcohol; was pro-abortion; pro-gay-marriage, etc.
Sad, sad, sad.
I used to work in a lab right next to the School of Dentistry..!
I bladed all over that hill (but not the super steep descent down to the baseball field!)
Well, I know he used to live in the exclusive Sea Cliff area which is kind of northeast of there. Maybe he lived near Parnassus before that (?)
He said himself that he took the TV series because he needed the money, that his home and lifestyle cost so much.
Yeah. I just try to focus on the good stuff which is pretty abundant around there. Really, an amazing place. The more I think about the more I want visit there right now.
:-)
I am so tired of these phony liberals trying to show that they care so much about Robin Williams death. Where were they before he offed himself? Were they calling him to offer assistance in some way that may have stopped him from killing himself? Of course not! Deep down they could care less about Robin Williams or his family. They only do things for the purpose of being seen doing them. How many of them are right now showing any care about the number of youths who have recently died in the streets of Chicago and Detroit? None, that’s how many. Not until something happens so they can join the “I Care More Than You Do” bandwagon will you hear anything from the likes of these liberal jackasses. So what about Robin Williams? Is the fact that he made a bunch of idiotic but successful fictional films make him worthy of more respect that others? No! He chose to end his life and it was his decision whether you like it or not and you liberals need to stop putting rich Hollywood actors on a pedestal. They are not as important as you or they themselves think. Robin Williams made plenty of money to have had a nice retirement but he was too busy going though wives and living large when he should have been planning for the future. When the time came he did not have enough to support two ex wives and a current family. Too bad Robin but it’s all on you buddy. If anyone still feels like they need to get on an “I Care” bandwagon they should visit the cancer ward at the nearest St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. These kids are not the rich and famous but they are far more worthy of your sympathy than Robin Williams ever was.
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