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Robin Williams: Bay Area made him feel normal
Associated Press ^ | Aug 13, 2014 2:41 PM EDT | Ellen Knickmeyer

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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TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: bayarea; california; robinwilliams; sanfrancisco; shazbat
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To: Arthur McGowan

“he clearer it is what an ordinary, conventional secularist he was. “

I read that he was an Episcopalian, but then that’s often the same thing these days


41 posted on 08/13/2014 7:26:07 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham

If an Episcopal bishop can be a gay Maoist atheist—and he can—any Episcopalian can be anything.


42 posted on 08/13/2014 8:27:24 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

And in San Francisco I’d expect the worst of the lot is in charge. A leftwing social club masquerading as a church.


43 posted on 08/13/2014 10:03:08 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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