NOMINATION: Steve Boursy for the BOBO
lits...@hotmail.com
He was one of the greats!
Rebecca Ore wrote:
> "Gareth" <hotma...@dgareth.spm> writes:
>
> > "Rebecca Ore" <ogoen...@verizon.net> wrote in message
> > news:m2sly9g...@rebecca-ores-emac.local...
> >> "Gareth" <hotma...@dgareth.spm> writes:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> There's a paid for/family placed death notice in there for a Stephen
> >>> Smith
> >>> Boursy published on 24 April 2005.
> >>
> >> Steve said once that there weren't many Boursys out there. He had a
> >> couple of brothers.
> >>
> >> Did the announcement say anything about cause of death?
> >
> > Someone kindly forwarded me the notice. It says nothing at all about the
> > cause of death - not even a date of birth for that matter. It just said that
> > the service was private at the request of the family and named his mother,
> > late father and brothers: late John Boursy, Eleanor Boursy (mother) and
> > brothers John Jr (who lives in France), Andrew (who lives in Malborough CT)
> > and Richard (who lives in New Haven CT) (all with the Boursy surname).
>
> Matched what I knew about Steve (and I finally paid to see it). He
> told me that his mother lived in MA, west of Boston, and if one of the
> brothers was a priest, I believe omitting the surname is traditional.
>
> >
> > There's a message in alt.fan.speedbump describing the belief that Steve
> > Boursy killed himself some months ago - no evidence is described though.
> >
>
> The family was strongly Catholic. If Steve did kill himself, that
> would explain why the service was private, perhaps. He had mentioned
> on his website that he'd been molested by a family member as a child
> -- and I tend to believe him. In my dealings with him, he was shy and
> rather drily witty in person, and had been a terror on line and in
> email (with John Grubor) before he calmed down.
>
> He could change moods over what seemed like almost nothing, and I
> sometimes couldn't tell if he was serious or trolling (as when he
> threatened to kill Caputo if Caputo "pulled his plug"). For someone
> as difficult as he could be, he cared more about other people than
> most people who were that aggressively depressed. That compassion, as
> misplaced as I found it on occasion (I *don't* feel that sorry for
> John Grubor, thanks), was one reason I thought well of him. I told
> him before we were friends that I felt like he was stalking me. He
> immediately stopped baiting me. I've never had that reaction from
> anyone since when I asked them to back off in a public usenet post,
> including people who I thought were friends.
>
> Suicide? Yeah, I can imagine that. Or cancer from smoking.
>
> I posted two pictures of him to the Flonk website. Both were taken in
> 1999 at ReaderCon. <http://www.meow.org.flonk>
>
> I once said that Steve had all he really needed for a basically happy
> life, just didn't know how to accept it.
>
> When I first talked to him on the phone, he told me about how he'd
> realized the Private Investigator character who'd tricked him into an
> attack on Chris Lewis wasn't a good guy. At that point, I hadn't
> known anything about the incident, but Steve said that the PI offered
> him floor plans of Chris's house and at that point, he realized the PI
> expected the worst of him and told the man never to contact him again.
>
> I hate the people who tricked him into that attack. Neither he nor
> Lewis deserved that.
>
> Long time ago in Usenet years. As far as I could tell, he had a
> painful life and wasn't willing to walk away from the pain.
>
> But most people like that don't care about other people, and Steve did.
>
>
>
> --
> Rebecca Ore
Archie Leach
lits...@hotmail.com wrote:
>Steve is dead, and possibly by his own hand.
>
>He was one of the greats!
Not a Bobo. GET SOME PRIORITIES (tm).
Maybe a Posthumous Palmjob Paddle, though.
Hopeflly, heaven.* will have a new regular contributor along with JM
Hunter, and whomever else is up there.
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evetS
kill himself, he had OD'd on pills. At his work a book was found on the
subject of suicide. He had just started working for me, i found a lot
about him after he had died. In his emails to me he had mentioned
suicide a few times. He was having issues with relocating his from
Waltham to Boston. I was working to accomodate his requests and he
seemed to be a lot better when he realized that I was trying to help
him.
>From what i found in the Usenet archives was not very positive. I
figured that there would be someone who would care.
PJR
> On 21 Jul 2005 14:37:27 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks
> lits...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>Steve is dead, and possibly by his own hand.
>>
>>He was one of the greats!
>
> Not a Bobo. GET SOME PRIORITIES (tm).
Absolutely.
> Maybe a Posthumous Palmjob Paddle, though.
Not really, since the (alleged) suicide isn't Usenet-related.
A posthumous pardon might be more in order, since he'd been "going
straight" for many years.
> Hopeflly, heaven.* will have a new regular contributor along with JM
> Hunter, and whomever else is up there.
I hope Earl Curley will buy him a drink.
PJR :-)
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Archie Leach
<p...@NOSPAMkookbusters.org> wrote:
>On Friday 22 July 2005, Archie Leach wrote in alt.usenet.kooks:
>
>> On 21 Jul 2005 14:37:27 -0700, in alt.usenet.kooks
>> lits...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Steve is dead, and possibly by his own hand.
>>>
>>>He was one of the greats!
>>
>> Not a Bobo. GET SOME PRIORITIES (tm).
>
>Absolutely.
>
>> Maybe a Posthumous Palmjob Paddle, though.
>
>Not really, since the (alleged) suicide isn't Usenet-related.
>
>A posthumous pardon might be more in order, since he'd been "going
>straight" for many years.
Fair enough. I was just mentioning it for the sake of alliteration.
>> Hopeflly, heaven.* will have a new regular contributor along with JM
>> Hunter, and whomever else is up there.
>
>I hope Earl Curley will buy him a drink.
>
Which would be viewed with extreme skepticism by Glenn Quarnstrom.