Paul Fredrocks:
Honk if you still think he’s alive!
You got it, you give it up, you still got it…
To the realms of heaven, hell and purgatory, add Facebook.
Because anymore, the fine line between life and death keeps getting finer, as larger than life local personalities such as former KY102 jock Paul Fredrocks and local comedy king Craig Glazer soldier on – well past their expiration dates – on social media.
Sans some sort of change-of-address system or imaginary expiration date, Facebook continues to feature their – and other dead folks – pages, complete with all of the photos, friends, comments etc, that existed prior to their departing this world.
As in, dying.
For some – ostensibly “friends” -it may be comforting to visit their Facebook pages to reconnect or relive the magic.
It’s certainly a heckuva lot easier than trekking out to some cemetery.
Lately however both Fredrocks and Glazer have celebrated social media birthdays.
Leading to a bizarre spate of congratulatory messages by people clued out to the fact that both have long since taken dirt naps.
“Hope you had a happy day,” wrote a dude named Jim Flink on Fredrocks Facebook page.
“Happy birthday celebrate,” added former KCC columnist Mark Valentine, who garnished his comment a smiley face emoji.
Channel 9 weather wonk Bryan Busby breathed a bit of grim reality into the festivities by adding, “Happy Birthday in heaven, Paul.”
And just a couple days ago, deceased KCC scribe Craig Glazer rose from Facebook’s dead – much to the surprise of some – who weighed in with a host of attaboys and good tidings.
No wonder…
Craig Glazer:
Honk if you think he was born in the Middle Ages!
“Write Craig a birthday wish,” my Facebook page pimped me.
“Happy birthday, Craig! Cheers!” wrote someone named Brian Bruce.
All told, more than 100 people weighed in to wish Glazer well.
Someone named Suzi Sanderson gets top honors for dark humor though.
“Is the virus in heaven?” she wondered.
Another good one:
“Happy belated birthday!!” wrote Michael Price.
It was definitely a “belated” birthday, as in “coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time.”
Some dude named Bob Packet took the cake though – not only totally clueing out to the fact that Craig is on longer of this earth – instead writing a mini dissertation on the allegorical significance of Glazer’s birthday.
Check it:
“Happy, happy birthday Craig and may you have many, many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Besides your birth other famous events to occur on this date in the world of the Middle Ages include; 979 Murder of Edward the Martyr 1314 Jacques de Molay and Geoffroi de Charney burnt at the stake. I would point out that De Molay was the last Grand master of the Knights Templar and as he was burning he looked out and spoke to the King of France and the Pope and said that within the year he would return to bring them before the Throne of God for judgement for their actions. A few months later the Fr King was killed in a hunting accident and a few months later the Pope died from a heart attack brought on by fright.”
So yeah, life goes on – even after death – on Facebook.
Still shouldn’t there be an expiration date for those who no longer walk among us?
Just asking…
Shows you how stupid and pointless those “birthday wish” posts on Facebook are.
must be a little knee jerk in nature for some people
All of social media is knee jerk.
More like circle jerk.
George Carlin did a bit(right before he himself passed away) about giving his dead friends a free pass for about 6 weeks after they die. After that? “facts are facts you’re dead and you’re deleted from my address book”.
Still it’s hard to forget Glazer he was a hoot.
beginning of the end for kcconfidential, or do just not know how to log in? I enjoy it, and hate to be fool by logging in every day, for naught!
No posts for 10 days…
watergun force!
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