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ChompChomp said:
Just a tiny correction, Tofte was 96 years old (born 1930-01-08).
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I believed a journo and didn't check the math; eternal shame on my part.
ChompChomp said:
It's also curious that the family was said to be having financial setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Didn't that end a few years ago?
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Enchanted Forest isn't Disneyland; they're only open March-September. (Oregon does get pretty cold and rainy for magical fairyland, plus that's when they maintain the rides and repaint.)

Enchanted Forest is doing better every year, but they had an entire season (= year )closed where they still had to pay the year-round staff and all the other fixed costs. Then a really bad ice storm hit the PNW in 2021 (the park is literally in a forest, with old trees) plus attendance was still restricted when they could finally open in 2021, after paying even more money to rebuild and do tree work.
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They're not Disneyland, just a multigenerational family with cement, chicken wire and a dream. They don't have a money stream when the park's not open.

Although part of what kept them afloat was that they started selling engraved bricks in 2020. Enchanted Forest isn't a nonprofit, but people have feelings about the place, especially if they went there as a kid; this is the normie equivalent of buying a wand from Cobes to keep the dream alive.

mine is by the Blackbird Bakery. no they have never seen nor heard of the Tiki Room at Disneyland.
 
Troonos said:
After hitting my late 30s, not a day goes by when I'm not filled with existential dread about aging and disease and death, and the eternity of nothingness that comes after. I have a wife and a lucrative career, but deep down this is all I can think about anymore. I don't know how every human in history hasn't become totally dysfunctional over this anxiety.
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As the great Eddie Vedder said, "it's a fragile thing, this life we lead
If I think too much, I can get over-whelmed by the grace, by which we
Live our lives with death over our shoulders"
 
I lost my Mom in November, I took care of her for a bit over 15 years after my Dad took his life. She was the only living family member I had that wasn't a piece of shit. I'd talk to her about threads here and get a lot of chuckles and "what the hell is wrong with those people". She followed harry and Megan marhkle, they were her lolcows. House feels empty and I feel like I lost any purpose I had. And on the 20th, it'll be both the one year anniversary of my heart attack and 3 month mark for her.
 
mlanguishi said:

Robert Duvall, indelible actor from 'The Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now,' dies at 95​

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He did not want a formal service, so his family encouraged fans to honor his memory by "watching a great film, telling a good story around a table with friends, or taking a drive in the countryside to appreciate the world’s beauty."
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Will do, Mr. Duvall.
 
Secondhand Lions is one of the best movies ever made and I am personally offended it wasn't included in the Community Happenings post.

Yes, I am just in the anger stage of grief, do not take actual offense to that, dear poster.
 
Polyboros2 said:
Secondhand Lions is one of the best movies ever made and I am personally offended it wasn't included in the Community Happenings post.

Yes, I am just in the anger stage of grief, do not take actual offense to that, dear poster.
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It's there now, I was on the way to post it just now and someone already did. (ETA oh not the movie, just in general about him on there. I haven't seen Second Hand and in fact I don't think I ever heard of it somehow) I think my fav of all of his was Falling Down, the only person in the movie who was truly 'good' (all the acting was good, I mean as a good person of course)
 
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damn, RIP Robert Duvall
just watched Godfather I and II this weekend for the 1000th time and was thinking what a great actor he is and how great Tom Hagen as a character is
 
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