The Rest of Bill Schmalfeldt’s Life Starts Tomorrow
We were pleased to see this on Bill Schmalfeldt’s Twitter feed this evening.
We are very interested in what he will decide to do with it. To help with the possibility that there might be a true fresh start, we’ve changed the usual default Billy Sez image to a more recent one of Bill. We’ll leave it that way for a bit and see how things go.
We believe that Bill is feeling many emotions right now following his wife’s death. Anger, sadness, fear, loneliness, hopelessness- a grief counselor will tell you that these are all usually present after the passing of a loved one. Depression is common too. We are guessing that Bill will struggle with some or all of these things as he moves on. We suspect he will go through a period of writing and perhaps saying things that will strike many as the same old-same old. He will probably lash out with even greater violence at his usual targets, or even new ones. He may even reach new heights of being hateful and bizarre over the next few days. We hope he won’t, but this is real life we’re dealing with.
So we are going to take a break here. This is not a truce. Pretty much nothing Bill can write, say or do will end it. In five days we’ll come back and see where things stand. We’ll check in and take things day by day from there. We are hoping that Bill will seek professional help with the grieving process (not a sign of weakness btw, but of self-insight), and we are will to help by doing the things we’ve described as well.
We’ll leave this thread open for comments, but we hope that they are forward looking in tone, and not simply reactive to Bill Schmalfeldt while he goes through a difficult period in his life. Our friend and commenter “Sam” put things in clear perspective on the Gail Schmalfeldt is Dead thread when he wrote:
This all seems so sad. I know, I know, give it a few days and he’ll go right on saying the things that make you throw up your hands and wish him ill but right now I genuinely feel sorry for the guy. Grief should be shared with friends and family, not adversaries. Unless that’s all you have.
We think that Bill has an opportunity at what we know is a sad time for him. Let’s give him a reasonable chance to take advantage of it. We are not his friends, but we share with him a common basic humanity.
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Well, we now all know how *that* turned out…
He can’t change, he’s always been that way, he will go to his grave cursing fate (and his “enemies”).
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I was going to comment similarly, Roy. I’ve been around enough to see many, many decent people try to help the malignant monster, give it space, try this or that to help it see how normal people view the things the freak says and does, and it always, always, always ALWAYS ends up with alienating them, and adding to the horde.
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Btw – EPWJ tried harder than most, for longer than most, before he gave up.
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And those who’ve tried seem to be some of them he goes after the hardest.
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library, I have an offtopic question.
Did you ever comment over on the Lawdog’s blog? I was thumbing through the archives, reading some old stories, and noticed a comment by one ‘library-gryffon’. Was that you?
Just curious. It’s a sign of good taste to enjoy Lawdog’s writings, though 😀
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Yes, that was me over at LawDog’s. I still check there, but sadly he isn’t posting much these days.
Just thinking about the ratel, the trebuchet, or the drunk armadillo still makes me giggle
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Oh God yes. I laughed so hard I cried at the pink gorilla suit story.
Hope he’s doing okay.
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What about the year he killed Santa Claus?
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I have not given upon him……….
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Lawdog appears to have a lot on his plate riding herd on Thing 1 and Thing 2.
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Ash, your list is impressive, but I am sure 2016’s will be better. After all, no one is posting comments yet about the various idiocies contained in the latest LOLsuit from Witless Willie, a failed political candidate. Of course it’s possible that everyone will be disciplined enough to reserve such comments to motions to dismiss, to sanction, or for summary judgment. If so, I have confidence that Willie will say something else so spectacular as to make 2016 at least as good a year for Billysez as 2015.
And I sincerely hope your 2016 will be better than 2015.
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I’m not suggesting anything here, but I think next year’s Top 10 list would be better if there were only 4 posts to choose from, IYKWIMAITYD.
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Who has the pool when LOLsuit VI: The Undiscovered Krendler will be dismissed with prejudice? Over/under?
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Bill is not alone in filing for butt-hurt, click through to you-tube to checkout the side bar for how it worked out. enjoy
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Really, who would have known, if she hadn’t told them? I’m sure it was embarassing, but next week, someone else is going to have some piece of avoidable stupidity caught on camera, and she’ll be forgotten.
Very, very silly.
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