Remembering Roup, Anecdotes, pictures, stories Options

[Ivy]

So many of us were fortunate enough to meet Roup, and anyone who spent any amount of time with him knew that he was a great wit and a natural born goofball. This thread is to tell stories, post pictures, and share memories of a wonderful man, even as we try to make sense of losing him.

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The first time I met Paul was in Seattle, at MsChilePepper's house. I had a small gift (hey, I was his Brunchma groupie and I owed him something, right?) for him that I'd put in a gift bag and decorated with ribbons and tissue paper and all that froofy stuff. I knew I'd get along with him just fine when the first thing he did with the gift was put all the ribbons and froofy stuff on top of his head as a hat.

Other highlights of that trip were the kilt try-ons, the Archie MacPhee trip, where he was oddly fascinated by the taxidermist's deer eyeballs, and the consumption of fried pickles at a bar where Paul tried on some of his Archie MacPhee goods, including an aviator helmet/goggle set up. At one point he said that removing the goggles made it feel like your eyeballs were being sucked out, here, try it! I literally fell on the floor, laughing. My sides ached for days after that visit.

At the Austin Gerald he and I shared a room with Serendipity. I can honestly tell you that Paul, even on his tidiest behavior, was one of the most genuinely messy people I've ever met.

[Babylonia]

I have a ridiculous amount of pictures, and I will be posting them to a gallery on the domain I just registered - roupie.org. It'll be a memorial site.

Just registered it a bit ago so it won't be reachable for a day or two.

[Fernanda]

The Green Fairy Dance

[grendelyn]

Ha! Roup was so pissed when I took the green fairy video! Serves him right.

Paul got slakko and me together through his very very silly matchmaking thread. I owe him all the best things in my life. I am very grateful that I got to tell him that many many times.

[Bennyboy]

I'm lucky enough to have been half the subject in one of the best Roup pictures ever. We never did clear up the question of who was the evil twin.

[MsChilePepper]

Oh, my darling gRoupie! The first to be my groupie, and such a dear, sweet, sick-minded little pervert he was. He was always there to cop a quick feel, but hey, nobody will ever waggle his eyebrows and point at his crotch like Roup could. I loved his wry wit and the way he'd say, "Mmm-HM!" when he agreed with you.

A couple years ago, I was in Portland with my parents, visiting some friends of ours on New Year's Eve. Paul was coincidentally visiting his parents in Portland, so he came over to my friends' home, and we all played silly card games. He wore my leopard-print fez, and he was so kind and sweet to our friends' developmentally disabled daughter, who I think ended up with a wee Roupcrush by the end of the night.

At the Vegas Gerald, after our roommate flaked out on Dora and me, Roup lent me some cash for the hotel bill, without even blinking.

I love you, Paul, my dear friend. God, I'm gonna miss you!

This post has been edited by MsChilePepper: Jul 20 2006, 09:57 PM

[Slow Motion Walter]

When I joined Brunchma, Paul was the first person who made me think, "goddamn, this guy is cool--maybe I've come upon something really special here." Even as I mixed the rest of you fuckers up all the time, he was the first one who stood out to me. And in the years since, he or someone else would occasionally note here or there that he and I were occasionally weirdly similar in certain beliefs or opinions (look in my title history--I was miniRoup for a little while) and I always took it as a really flattering compliment.

I wish I would've told him that.

I'll miss you, Paul.

[Arwon]

I got curious, and this post turns out to have been the last one he made.

[Ambiguous]

I'm lucky enough to have been half the subject in one of the best Roup pictures ever. We never did clear up the question of who was the evil twin.

That sausage was a lucky sod, too.

[Angel Fish]

I know he was best known for goofy, but there were normal photos too.

[brokendreams]

After lurking in this board for a very long time (I think I joned like a year after I was lurking) I finally joined. My first post was somthing of an intorduction. I made a quote about Roup's Penis, which I guess was a long running joke (which I now can't remember the origins of).


Looking back on the past 3 or 4 years I've been here, I have to say that Roups posts always stood out as something I should read. Whether they be about music, politics, religion, et cetera, they were always insightful, even if some of us disagreed. I can't ever remember anybody having said a bad thing about the man, and on the intarweb, that is a rare and beautiful thing.

Having lived so close to him for all these years (I'm about 60 miles from L.A) and never meeting him is a sad thing.


Requiescat in pace, Mr. Wilbert. Yur insight, comedy, intelligence, and most of all, good, pleasant company, will be missed greatly.

[EmberLeo]

I'm re-reading my LJ entries from when I braved the unknown wilds of Las Vegas for Megs and Morat's wedding.

It was the first time I met Roup in person, and we ended up rooming together! How scandalous!

Normally I'd be twitchy as all hell to share a room alone with a guy I'd only met in person a few hours before. But Roup had a vibe that's just... very trustworthy.

We got to hang out several more times at various brunchmeets in LA and Las Vegas, and he was just... I don't know how to be more specific than "a really wonderful guy".

*sigh*

--Ember--

[Fernanda]

He was a mensch. It's really the only word that fits.

[Djelibeybi]

He was a mensch.  It's really the only word that fits.

I never got to meet him in person, and yet I know this to be true. He was indeed a mensch. A goy too, but a mensch nonetheless.

[FireLily]

Just looking through the Boston Gerald gallery, he was only in about half the pictures posted. He was definitely the life of the party.

Roup's coloring book page. Too funny.

[Dutch Philosopher]

My shrine to Roup, from the time that it was all cool to group.

As to the story of the Roupenis, as I remember it:

If I remember correctly, Roup once hotlinked an avatar from (I think) Somethingawful.com . They have a habit of replacing hotlinks with something terribly unsavoury. In this case it was, what can best be described as "a dribbly willy".

And he had just so proudly posted in the "Lookit my avatar" thread.

This post has been edited by Dutch Philosopher: Jul 21 2006, 09:16 AM

[MsChilePepper]

God, wasn't that just a Roup thing to do?

I remember on one visit to Seattle, he used the bathroom at Ursula's apartment and ... stunk it up rather significantly. He was quite proud of himself, really. Ever after, she and I refer to that act as "Rouping up the bathroom".

[WTDT]

I only met him the once, though we talked a lot. (Not so often recently. I figured there'd be more time than this.) He was the only other smoker at the table and we puffed away obnoxiously. There were photos of all of us taking turns to wear a silly hat, but I can't find them in the gallery now.

[Fernanda]

As to the story of the Roupenis, as I remember it:

If I remember correctly, Roup once hotlinked an avatar from (I think) Somethingawful.com . They have a habit of replacing hotlinks with something terribly unsavoury. In this case it was, what can best be described as "a dribbly willy".

Not quite - the Dribblesome Willy Incident happened after the Roupenis meme had become established.

What really happened was that Eugenie started a thread called The Sexiest Part Of My Body, and Roup replied "My penis. Definitely my penis."

[Kittywench]

MCP told me all about you weirdoes last year, and when I showed up, she squealed like a little girl (I think she groped me too). Roup's first words were, "Is she hot?"

I think I ruptured something.

[Janric]

About 3 months ago, our friend Andy had a black tie/toga/lingerie party at his beach house. The day of the party, Paul sent me a text asking me what's going on that night, so I sent him a text telling him there was a black tie/toga/lingerie party at Andy's house, and asked if he wanted to come with us. Paul told us that "there's a party at a beach house featuring girls in lingerie. Wanna come with?" has to be the dumbest question he ever heard, and later on that night he showed up in a suit equipped with a bottle of bourbon (the party was BYOB). The party was fun. Paul made fun of my latest scotch obsession:

Me: Yeah, I'm going to a scotch tasting in 2 weeks.
Paul: You are becoming SO yuppie! In a month you'll be all like "Oh, the Bouquet on this one is delectable"
Me: Um... actually in scotch it's referred to as a Nose
Paul: aHA! See?

On the way back home, Paul was drunkenly trying to convince Babs and I that iPod ads are sexy, because the silhouettes have a suggestive eroticism to it. Since he was in no state to drive, and Babs needed to use our spare bedroom as an office, we let him take the living room couch.

When I went downstairs to get some water about 10 minutes afterwards, I found RoupSuit scattered on the living room floor, and a suitless Paul in a blanket on the living room. I gave him a bottle of water and told him he must drink it before passing out, then I went upstairs and said "Honey, there's a naked Roup downstairs". We didn't really mind, but it just seemed like an amusing thing to say at the time. Paul thanked us profusely the next day for nursing him back to health, even though all we did was hand him some sheets, blankets and a bottle of water.

This post has been edited by Janric: Jul 21 2006, 10:44 AM