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RIP Michelle McNamara LOS ANGELES–Michelle McNamara, a crime writer and wife of comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, died in her sleep at her home here April 21. McNamara was 46.
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46. Her life had just begun.
It always scares me when I hear that someone “died in their sleep”. Now I know it usually means they don’t know the details yet, but it’s so scary! Knowing you could just go to bed one night thinking everything’s fine, and then….. you just never wake up.
:(
Very sad. My condolences to her husband and family.
Very, very sad. They have a 6 year old daughter together. RIP. My brother passed away in his sleep. He apparently had a heart condition no one knew about.
The missus and I have been big Patton fans for a while, and between his stand-up and books he feels like an old friend. We heard about this late last night, and honestly were much more upset than at the loss of Prince. Their daughter is only 7 for crying out loud. F%@# you, 2016. You’ve gone too far.
Very sad. And count me as another who has had enough with people dying this year.
i wonder how this will effect the show. i know its a show but still. we waited as fans for the return since 1999 so we can wait some more if need be.
RIP
My cousin died a few years ago at 47. He’d just semi-retired, very successful. Again, a heart ailment he didn’t know about. :(
My thoughts are with Patton. Hang in there.
Patton is awesome, this is just devastating news. On behalf of all MSTies, sending our love your way.
I hope Patton gets through this. I know how much his wife meant to him. I can’t imagine where his mind’s at right now. I’m sure his friends and family will rally round and help him out, but this is just gut-wrenching.
Such a tragic loss, in a year that has already brought too many others. RIP to Michelle McNamara, and sincerest condolences to Patton Oswalt and family.
@#7: As far as the new MST3K is concerned, I’m fully prepared to support Patton in whatever he decides to do, whether he feels the need to step away from the show or if he chooses to go on with it.
Heavens. I know the main story is her, but still, poor Patton. He’s already battling depression and now this.
I just hope he’s able to remember he has a little girl who needs him.
My heart is heavy for Patton, his daughter, and their family and friends.
Condolences to all from the MSTie community.
So sorry to hear this. All the best to Patton and his daughter.
The fact that he has work (and not just the MST3K reboot) is a Good Thing. The last thing in the world anyone with a loss needs is idle time (been there, done that).
And making others laugh? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many of our great comedians have suffered from depression. Creating joy for others can give your life a purpose that will see you through a lot of tough times.
So sorry to Patton and the rest of the family. Too many dying young these days. RIP Michelle.
Sometimes, some people, seem perplexed why I reject the idea of a loving, personal, & fair “God.”
Here you go. Exhibit A above.
It’s much easier and logical to accept the laws of nature (however cruel and chaotic they may appear to be at times) than to accept the frightening idea of some psychopathic omnipotent personal BULLY allowing or meting out physical and mental torture according to whatever whim possesses the genderless “it”.
That’s not a god worth spitting on, let alone one you can trust or (cringe) “worship.”
Self-righteous believers can put MY INEFFABLE LOGIC in THEIR CIRCULAR LOGIC pipe and smoke it till they’re face turns cyanotic.
Words will sound, at best, like empty platitudes right now, Mr. Oswalt, but know that all your fans and all the MST3K fans are sincere with their postings of condolences and that the empathy meter readings are off the scale.
Use all your support systems, Paddy, and navigate as best you can.
You are a resilient man she would want you to take command over your destiny, despite this … this f***ing darkness.
Very sad. No mention of an illness. Makes it tougher when it is sudden. Condolences to Patton Oswald and his family.
What my visiting brother-in-law Cam said.
I just don’t have the words like he does.
This rips my heart out.
I’m really sorry, and wish Pat well.
If I am this disturbed and shocked at the news, I cannot begin to imagine what Pat is going through.
:-(
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no comment, just… condolensces.
bows head, and wishes for best thoughts to – try to get through untry-able times.
signs postcard… take care, best wishes, the oswalt family.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Patton and to her family..Very sorry for their loss..
My sincere condolences to her husband, child, family and friends. I’m sorry for your loss.
Damn.
I was devastated when I heard about this yesterday.
Have they actually started filming yet? I hope not, I’d rather Patton go and grieve for whatever length of time is needed, then he comes back and plunges into this project alongside Joel and company with full fervor. They need to dedicate episode 1 to her…or something like that.
Do you know how to tell if someone is a vegetarian,atheist,or doesn’t own a TV? You don’t have to,THEY will tell you. Thanks for making someone else’s tragedy about YOU.
I agree – they should dedicate the 1st new episode to her
I could be wrong, but I believe Joel said shooting doesn’t start until July/August. (Think it was in one of the Kickstarter updates.)
He’s always struck me as the type to not recast, so I could totally see a scenario where he casts another Mad (or even Trace/Frank doing a solid) and tells Patton the part is his if/when he’s ready.
Everyone here is a filter and discussing this sad topic. That’s how it works.
You could just as easily condemn those who are innocently wondering how the event will affect the show, or voicing their theories as to how Joel will deal with it. Some might view those posts as less than sensitive. But they’re not. They are simply part of the discussion.
Understandably, fans are very upset and unless I misunderstand what a forum is, dickweed, people are allowed to speak their mind up to whatever point the website’s owner deems germane.
If you feel it was “God’s will,” etc, that’s no skin off my back. Believe me, I thought like that many moons ago.
But singling me out with your post because you do not like what I posted just brings attention to yourself, which makes you a bit of a hypocrite if you think about it.
I am not an atheist, but dollars to dimes, I do have a vastly different idea than you as to how things work outside the black iron prison.
You believe YOU have the market on how a topic is discussed and WHAT is allowed to be said? Sorry. You do not.
If this were a “guest book” on a funeral website, I think you would have a valid point. Or if I were giving a toast at a wedding or giving the eulogy at a funeral, you could tell me “enough already, get off your soapbox, Cam.”
But this discussion isn’t those things, Dave. We’re expressing condolences AND discussing what happened.
If fans are pissed off and/or saddened at how unfair and unexpected what happened is, it seems to me that THIS is THE place to vent about it. If you just want every post to be one or two sentences saying they are sorry, that’s just tough. I don’t perceive the topic as a static shrine of that nature.
I can’t help but wonder if you are like this if you’re with a group of people face to face? Someone says something disagreeable when something like this happens and you shut them down with that self-righteous judgment crap? My ex-wife used a very similar passive aggressive tactic. During an argument, she would suddenly accuse: It’s always about YOU! But when SHE was making a point, SHE was simply, “talking about her FEELINGS.”
She never saw or admitted to seeing the contradiction.
You know EXACTLY what I’m talking about, Dave and it was a cheap shot to try to take me down a peg.
I have nothing against believers, just the self righteous models.
I didn’t MAKE this tragedy about ME, you nitwit, this TRAGEDY caused ME to respond ABOUT IT.
Let me guess, you’re a long time poster here and feel within your rights to stomp around like an alpha male hall monitor if anyone gets out of line according to you.
I do not seek your approval and if I decide to start posting instead of lurking, you’re just going to have to ignore me, though I can’t imagine why you would, since all I would be doing (normally) is talking about how much I love MST3K.
If Sampo wants to remove my post(s), that’s completely okay by me with no resentment from my end. I always support the discretion of any given website’s owner. Period. That’s how I roll. Free speech does not pertain to saying whatever the hell you want when you’re in someone else’s home.
But it’s like you didn’t even read the second half of my post.
EVERY BIT OF OF MY POST, even the first half which upset you, was specifically designed on the very off chance Patton ever reads it, you stubborn butthead.
I’m as disturbed about what Patton’s going through as any other typical Mistie.
When others on a different forum claimed it was “God’s will,” I just had to get the hell out of there and vent.
Imagine if Patton were to read that… “It’s God’s will…”
SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD if I ever say that!
I’m pissed OFF, damn it.
I’m only human (most of the time). So sue me.
Everyone knows what a good spirit Patton has, which makes it all the more tragic.
Like everyone else, I hate it that this happened and I can’t stop picturing his reaction.
At this point, SCREW MST3K, if you get what I mean.
It’s all POINTLESS CRAP if you lose your other half.
That… that sense of DESPAIR, is what I was attempting to address. Believe it or not, in my experience, re-framing things as part of natural law can often help the surviving person reboot at a critical juncture.
Cam out.
Wow. The timing, her youth…this is just SO depressing that no matter what happens with the new show, it’ll be tough to ever watch it without thinking of Ms. McNamara. But then, keeping someone’s memory alive can never be an entirely bad thing. My condolences to her loved ones.
All else aside, from one married man to another, love ya, bro.
You sound pretty self-righteous yourself
#17: Brave, narcissistic words from someone whose religious strawman doesn’t have the Book of Job in it, apparently. Are you sure you haven’t mixed up all organized religions with Santa Claus?
As the commenter above note, thanks for making it all about you.
There’s a time for bold, challenging, passionate discussions about the nature of the universe, and religious belief vs. skepticism, and differing views on fairness from a human standpoint, and so on. And there’s a time to simply say, “I’m sorry for your loss. My condolences.”
My Mom is a Christian, and so am I. But when my Dad passed away, the last thing she wanted was a sermon or a big discussion; the latter choice was all she needed. I believe she was exactly right, given the circumstances. Perhaps addressing the former option is something for another day.
Well, that’s my view, anyway.
Nobody likes a good philosophical discussion as much as I, but I think we’ve gotten a little off topic here.
I would lose what’s left of my mind for good if I lost my wife…especially with no parting “goodbye.” Condolences to their families.
Weird, too, my daughter and I were recently watching the Marc Maron episode with him interviewing Oswalt via his garage podcast, and he was going on about how ‘good’ life is with being on three anti-depressants simultaneously. Ugh… sympathies, man.
Well, refreshing to see someone ELSE be the Official Site Asshat for a change….
Tragedy happens, but what God gives us is the ability not to be crushed by it, or turn (ahem) defeatist about it and retreat into self-serving cynicism, put it in perspective and maybe even be stronger enough to help others with it.
Getting back on the horse to try to do your act is one indication of the latter. The solution’s not easy, but it’s there, and less addictive than anti-depressants.
It’s said that there are exactly FOUR different kinds of atheist, and you can tell which one by the loud theories they blast in public–
And since you’re obviously Type 1 (“Hitman God”), Cam, just when did your mom die, anyway?…Six, was it?
(Doesn’t sound like the gay/ex-Catholic “World conspiracy” Type 4, or the “Word-literal Bible-anomaly trivia expert” Red-state-childhood Type 3.)
As the child of a philosophy teacher I’m biting my tongue to not throw in my 2 cents worth on the metaphysics here, but could we please dial the heat down, take a deep breath, remember that the issue here is a tragic early death of one of our own, and stow the debate on the ultimate nature of reality for a more appropriate thread?
I got married 2 years ago and I don’t even want to think about how devastated I would be if my wife passed away. Please rely on those who are there for you Patton.
Oh, for….How difficult is it to offer sympathy? I’m guessing pretty tough for some people, since there’s not one word of it.
Patton, I am so very sorry for your loss. You have my condolences.
I would reiterate the obvious at this time.
“…then repeat to yourself it’s just a show, I should really just relax…”
(those wishing to stay focused upon the true and real importance of the proceedings going on… please, look away…)
the only real, true thing anything any of us can say is, “friend, call us if you need to.” that’s all that can be said right now… mr. oswalt already has some good, concrete thoughts about how much “bunk” the net and net-commentary can be these days (along with much “good” that can come from it too), and i hope for his sake that he avoids this forum until long after he has had time to adjust back to some sort of “ilfe is halfway-normal again” routine. (-WITHOUT- reading your self-absorbed diatribes, meantime; nor, mine own!)
i’d been fighting the urge to applaud dave @ #25 – but failed ultimately early on. and then, unfortunately saw that it was not the end of it. i can nitpick the “status quo” choices taken within his short-but-sweet argument, but applaud the spirit of his sentiment. dave said a bit, like i say in spirit, the same thing i thought… but that’s always the way of it; we construct our arguments within our own mental spheres – like effin’ “finite math” and all those damn pie-charts intersecting each other… “oh well, 47% of you think this way, but that means 53% of the rest think that way”… binary BS! ;0). so very non-AI, isn’t it? (you’ll never, ever, ever, -EVER- meet someone you agree with 100% on everything; you just get to define the percentage that it takes for you to agree with, or agree to make friends with. remember that, and even politicians and political issues/voting decisions become a little clearer.)
myself, agnostic by choice – probably a #3, but nature in it’s simplest forms constantly reminds me that we are all one connected, that we are all just energy vibrating at a slow rate, that we are one and there is no separation between us and there is no separation between ourselves and god. (now if -that’s- an excuse to not take mushrooms… and to ban all drugs… ;0 take it as gospel. our blessed friend saint bill. or just watch “gandhi” once. and if you don’t get it once, then don’t bother again… and trust others to make those decisions for you. m’k? that’s life, in all it’s confusion and politics and b.s. and shiz.
citations/scriptures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRstsat8uU (“evolution didn’t end with our thumbs folks… by the way there are more dick-jokes coming.”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Zc-siuOlk (“my god… i love… everything.”)
(there should be a comedy club in the gta game that licensed his stuff, and that’s all you hear when you go into the club… brother and friend.)
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but… aggghhh, yess, i think i’m about to say too much and go on far too long about this now. and only hope it will leave nothing else to be said, because i feel what i have to say will be about as final as can be said about any sort of random “ranting” that you or others like you come into places like these, like this, and go off just so…
– un-welcome, within (as you then went on to propose as) “just” a topic, “just” another subject, “just” this thread…
-THIS IS NOT- -just- a “TOPIC”, a “SUBJECT”, a “THREAD”.
someone close to this circle died – even -if- not many of us even personally knew before this time (i knew patton was married, had a child – could assume then lol, he had a wife??)… despite that, those of us who gather together to help comfort him, his family, and all of those around him, especially in such a tumultuous time in their lives…
and now, you want to come into the middle of all of that and piss all over the place with yourself?!?
“MY INEFFABLE LOGIC in THEIR CIRCULAR LOGIC”? “SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD if I ever say that!” “I’m pissed OFF, damn it.”
pissed off at us for circling our wagons? well you goddamn right, we’ll do that… what are -you- gonna do about that?
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you don’t have to take the drugs mr. hicks or any of us might recommend to get the message, but if you don’t get the message (or if, just by chance of fates, you maybe kinda physiologically -need- drugs to help balance you out)… then, you should seek the right kind of forum, advice, professional consultation that you need (and maybe, thanks to your regional laws, maybe even the right state to live and work in), that allows the right kind of prescription to help “mellow yaself out.” here in the good ol’ beloved u-s-of-a, we don’t have the same rights in some states, as other states! that’s a sad, sorry state to be in (literally)… i’d been advising recently those younger folks who have chance to ever consider “jumping state” in the future to take such a choice seriously, if it offered them a “free-er” place to live. do it while you’re young!
or, maybe sometimes all it takes is finding the right consultant, and it may not always be the first one, just as many of us do not find the right teacher the first time – could take two/three/four times before one find the right one person to connect with.
i’ve a “minimalist” mind about it anymore (the less drugs, the better! including sugar/caffeine via the appropriate drinks, commonly) – but that comes with age too. our bodies really do change a bit over time, and our brains are part of our bodies – “an unfortunate fact”, but very true. treat your brain like the rest of your body – drink lots of water. take vitas and aspirin (sorry, no debates here over whether “do/don’t take vitas/aspirin” – NO ONE in this country has a balanced-enough diet to do without, and it hurts no one to take them in a “just in case” fashion). eat well, but not too much. but, pay attention to your body and brain’s needs. get a doc’s advice when you can (but, i’m still the type myself who won’t ever take any recommendation as “gospel truth”, like all human advice, nothing’s a certainty). we are all just a little physiologically different. this manifests itself in often thinking, often talking, differently than others. there’s nothing unusual about that really, when you think about it like that.
but, it’s always up to you, yourself, to try to work yourself out “into the groove” of life… into a life you can actually “have” and “live with.”
now, mr. cab-cambotty blahblah-mcboaty, what kinda life ya got to live with? can you possibly, potentially work it out on your own, and leave the rest of us alone here in the funeral parlor? stand outside someplace else and rant… because, general consensus is, your crazy-goin’-on just ain’t welcome here in the visitation room. so, i walk you outside… no one here is really looking at you with welcoming eyes anymore. if you don’t know where you aren’t welcome… hell, where you even -are- anymore, then maybe you shouldn’t be inside a funeral home right now, because there’s other things, other people’s emotions going on in there right now.
if you’re gonna be all ****-crazy angry, “pissed off dammit” and “shoot me in the head” about it, then no one’s gonna really want you around, or wanna talk to you at all. period. got that? not here. not there. not anywhere, in public, or in private (outside of a consultant’s office). no one’s into that. not even you would want to listen to yourself right now, i bet, if you had to listen to someone else talk like you have been. got that?
NOW, now… NOW that you’re out in the parking lot, maybe had a few smokes and walked it off, i’ll say this to ya mate… slooowww dowwn, horsey. -EEEASSY.- got a lot of energy now, don’tcha? now make sure you’re directing it in the right direction. because (although i love all of our horsey friends in all forms out there)… -you- aren’t just a ‘dumb horse’ now, are you? reacting to every little firecracker popping around your hooves? (and, for cryin’ out loud, this isn’t about -your- life or loved ones right now, it’s -someone else’s- life right now! so get real and calm down two or three octaves.)
take it easy. sometimes, just take -one day off-… DO… NOTHING. don’t do anything but bathe, eat, take care of anything else essential, and – i dunno, read or watch TV (nothing consequential). DO… NOTHING. SLEEP the whole goddamn day. it does wonders. just for a little bit. just for one day.
been there. done that. dunno what it is. ineffible energies sometimes. you don’t even need to dwell upon it; just get over it and forget about it and get on with the rest of your life. but don’t blame others being protective of others in reaction to your actions. they’ve got their own lives to live. i’ve talked this over with other young hotheads i’ve met along my way before. not everyone’s lived the same hard life as you feel you have, and as much as you want to express yourself out in the middle of whatever else that has little-to-no relation really to your own life, understand that most normal, regular, everyday people just aren’t your “audience.” they’re living their lives.
maybe you can find a standup act out of your “material,” but you’ve gotta find an -ACT- that has a -PLACE- with an -AUDIENCE.- otherwise you might as well just stand up in a public mall and rant and rave until the cops take you away.
p.s. guess what? in all practical sense and purpose… this -IS- a funeral-home guest book, right here, right now. and you’ve already signed it the way you had. now, get smart; find something to do with your life other than what you’re doing right now, maybe. and meanwhile, just “drop the mic” and leave this “just another thread” alone.
Not the time or the place for any of this. Please just stop it. :-(
If this site ever needed a moderator, it’s now.
This is terrible news.
lol can we go back to arguing about joel vs mike?
I’ve been married to my bride/best friend for 44 years next month, and if I ever lost her, it would hard beyond imagining.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Patton and his family during this devastating time.
Pax, friend.
Love and condolences to Patton and family.
Patton talks about his wife’s passing here:
http://time.com/4316653/patton-oswalt-remembers-michelle-mcnamara/