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well, AFAIK Hoffman wasn't

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:46:24 +0000

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well, AFAIK Hoffman wasn't really on the street....

The simple truth of economics

oldenGoldenDecoy — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:19:30 +0000

The simple truth of economics . . .

When Oxycontin is selling on the streets for 10 to 12 a pill then a $6 package of brown on the street will win out every time...

A sad... but bitter truth.

~OGD~

I read about this on the web

Richard Day — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:07:31 +0000

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I read about this on the web and then listened to the story on cable.

I come from a long line of drunks.

Drugs always scared me.

Booze is a much slower death for most.

Let me hide from the world.

That is all addicts wish to do really.

He was a great, great

Richard Day — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:05:14 +0000

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He was a great, great actor.

MSNBC spends a lot of time of this but it causes me no problems.

This was not Bieber or however you spell it.

Gravitas is all I can say.

He had this depth.

Oh well.

Oh hi Ducky. Yeah, I recall

Richard Day — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:01:56 +0000

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Oh hi Ducky.

Yeah, I recall you have this history in this biz.

I really, really enjoyed this man's work.

It made me sad.

Bad heroin, for chrissakes!

I recall seeing him in earlier works and he was so very young and talented.

How can the lucky, the geniuses fall apart like this?

I was going to add that he reminded me of Spencer Tracy.

Spencer looked like he was 80 when he was 60.

Yeah, it is a sad day!

Heroin is on a

artappraiser — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:57:53 +0000

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Heroin is on a roll:

Hoffman’s Heroin Points to Surge in Grim Trade
By J. David Goodman, New York Times, Feb. 3/4, 2014

[....] Each of the packages, which can sell for as little as $6 on the street, offered a grim window into Mr. Hoffman’s personal struggle with a resurgent addiction that ultimately, the police said, proved fatal. And the names and logos reflect a fevered underground marketing effort in a city that is awash in cheap heroin.

Heroin seizures in New York State are up 67 percent over the last four years, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said. Last year, the agency’s New York office seized 144 kilograms of heroin, nearly 20 percent of its seizures nationwide, valued at roughly $43 million. One recent raid, in the Bronx last week, netted 33 pounds of heroin and hundreds of thousands of branded bags, some stamped “N.F.L.,” a timely nod to the Super Bowl.

From 2010 to 2012, after several years of decline, heroin-related overdose deaths increased 84 percent in New York City to 382, according to the Health Department statistics. Staten Island, where prescription drug addiction has been especially virulent, has the city’s highest rate of heroin overdoses, though a connection has not been established.

Bags bearing different stamps turn up in raids of large-scale heroin mills around the city.

They are named for popular celebrities or luxury products [....]

His performances gave me

artappraiser — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:50:16 +0000

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His performances gave me great joy, even when he played a creep.

Sorry to here you're feeling

oldenGoldenDecoy — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 05:56:08 +0000

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Sorry to here you're feeling down there Dick...

You know, after working in the music business these past 50 years, whenever I hear news such as this it always hits me deep in the gut. Over these years I've experienced the loss of 11 people that I've worked with closely in the biz to suicides, overdoses or drank themselves to an early grave.

Sad sad sad . . . Two of them were in this band.

~OGD~

His dying sux. His

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:08:52 +0000

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His dying sux. His performance in Synechode was great.

I told the UU congregation on

Donal — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:20:34 +0000

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I told the UU congregation on Sunday that it seemed that death was all around me.

Last week I heard on Facebook that a talented local actor had died a bit younger than PSH, of diabetic shock. My wife and I had played with him in The Miser. She played Dame Claude, a servant woman, and I played his long-lost father. We hadn't seen him in seven years but it seemed like yesterday that we were in the green room laughing as he called her Damned Claude and me Dad.