The WELL: inkwell.vue.190: St. Jude Memorial and Virtual Wake

#36: Dennis Wilen (the-voidmstr) Sun 16 Nov 03 17:50

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:50:00 PST

These stories about St Jude are great! I wish I had known her better. [Read entire topic]

#35: Infradibulated Gratility (ssol) Sun 16 Nov 03 15:33

Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:33:00 PST

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#34: Sharon Lynne Fisher (slf) Tue 11 Nov 03 12:47

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:47:00 PST

Wow, I'm just finding out about this now. How sad. [Read entire topic]

#33: from JEAN E. KREILING (tnf) Wed 17 Sep 03 09:20

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:20:00 PDT

Jean E. Kreiling writes:

Jude was way ahead of me. She had an astonishing intellect, a fast brain that took in everything. I met her when we were 17 and newly enrolled in college. Her way with words was dazzling and I never knew a better writer. Some thought her gifts were wasted on comedy, but I doubt she could have done things differently. She had some early tragedies and I think these permanently set her face in the direction of humor.

We were out of touch for years when I bumped into her on the Internet. We met in NYC and corresponded a bit before losing contact again. I didn't know she was sick until two months before she died when she sent me a file, a musical farewell. I was stunned. On the one hand, she was dying; on the other, here was this file that was the funniest thing I had ever received. Egad, as Jude would say. Goodnight, my friend. [Read entire topic]

#32: David Gans (tnf) Wed 17 Sep 03 09:19

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:19:00 PDT

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#31: Mark Szpakowski (szpak) Sun 7 Sep 03 19:10

Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:10:00 PDT

An appreciation, from Jude, of the people who helped her in her last two years, is at http://www.well.com/~szpak/jude/. [Read entire topic]

#30: double-axled haywains and Harpo Marx going honk-honk (lioness) Mon 18 Aug 03 00:28

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:28:00 PDT

She was a good one.

Glad I had the chance to be around her, here and between the covers of HowTo Mutate. She will be missed, but more than that, I believe she's left us a pretty good bunch of inspiration, which is a damn fine legacy for a damn fine writer and whatever-she-was. (She was one of the good ones who doesn't fit in one word.) [Read entire topic]

#29: RUSirius (rusirius) Wed 13 Aug 03 10:59

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:59:00 PDT

Jude remembered as "Judy Milhon" w. photo

http://famousdeaths.150m.com/WeekInReview/WIR2003/WIR20030802.html#D52 [Read entire topic]

#28: Standard Normal Deviate (justpat) Mon 11 Aug 03 18:01

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:01:00 PDT

Honest, she really claimed not to know Shockwave Rider. [Read entire topic]

#27: RUSirius (rusirius) Mon 11 Aug 03 11:14

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:14:00 PDT

Nice tributes. Patrick, that was a fun NYC trip. One thing about your memories of Jude though: I find it hard to believe that Jude never heard of Shockwave Rider, since she wrote about Robert Morris' SR inspired internet virus for our 1989 issue (under the pseud Lady Ada Lovelace). Maybe she said she'd never read the book... but she must have known the title. I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the piece although I don't have a copy convenient to check.

Or maybe she forgot it completely. I think she was one of those people who get to be thrilled and surprised by something repeatedly by forgetting about them....

Queen Mu used to always look at the final design of each edition and say *I* never saw *that* about some piece even though we'd all been through everything in it a dozen times... Fortunately, most of the time she was happy with her "discovery."

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