Posts by Remembering Crashpryor
Please help get Chris's things to his Mama
It's Micki again...I finally spoke with Chris' Mama... we shared our grief... it was sad but I like to think it was encouraging for both of us to be in this together. Now, there seems to be a problem... Chris lived and passed away in LA, and his mother lives on the East Coast. She told me I should take care of retrieving his things, most of all his writing. But I don't understand the legal side...
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Micki here.Chris "Crash" Pryor was so many things to a lot of people... sage, guru, brother I've heard him called... he was our Connector, indeed, Michelle. To me, he was so many things, too. He was my teacher and my student, and my brother, and my best friend; he was my lover, my soulmate, and amazingly, my fiancé... sometimes I felt as though he was my mother and father, and he was that one man
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"Lost much sooner than you would have thought"
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The way I tend to react to a tragedy like we've been processing in the past days is that words feel to me like empty chatter. (To others, they are indispensable; persons differ in our ways.) So I've been quiet. Accordingly, I pay my respects to Chris in the form of instrumental jazz. This one starts from a familiar place but goes off and develops into something distinctive and insightful. Chris's
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Speechless
"Dave":http://www.mog.com/dave here:I just learned of Chris' passing he was a man with a flair for words like no other, he inspired me to MOG more, write more, put myself out there... and here I sit staring at the empty screen, speechless.I'll hold onto these Miles Davis albums for you, Crash. Rest in peace.
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Sing Thanks
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Knowing Crash made me one of the cool kids.Cos it was one thing to be one of his Trusted MOGgers. No small thing, but - to have him comment on your MOG: quick, with wit, often with joy, inducing a laugh. Aah, yeah, there, son. You've made it.But it always felt so terribly selfish. He wrote. He wrote a lot. He wrote so much that post rarely could fit only on the MOG page. So there you go, heading o
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