@Ontheroad It was indeed very sad to find this out.

He will be fondly remembered by more than a few.

@0uijaFinger He really was.
I smiled when I read the part about him beating chess masters in the game.

He had a very subtle wisdom that you could tell he had gained that from a full life.

@Vampyre He was the only other person I ever talked to on the phone from EP or here besides you and your brother.:-)

He was good people.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales He definitely had a class of humor that was purely him.

I will miss that wit.

@fun4us2b How wildly fitting. :-)

@lissah I messaged Poet earlier because I knew they were.

@DancingStarGoddess He was as good of a friend as any of my R/L friends are or were.
He had a way about him that made you feel comfortable in his presence on line or on the phone.
Strange to feel the loss like he lived next door and realize I never actually saw his face.
Some people can just command respect with the softest of tones.

@Dainbramadge I understand. We spoke for a while some months back. I just tend to be quite covert about my conversations with people here and no one ever really knows they happened but me and the other party. I could almost swear I saw their name fairly recently but I think it was as you said, some weeks ago. I'm off and on here a lot

@SleepingWithGhosts That was the biggest reason I chose to share the link to his obituary rather than copy and edit out his personal details.

He was a pretty amazing soul and I am sure, at this point, he wouldn't mind having his real name and location shared with everyone.

I figured I am probably not the only one who would like to share a message with his family about how he touched us.

@DDonde People come and go here so often and most times we never know what ever became of them.

Unfortunately we know what happened with Chris.

It's a unique situation for the people of this sight.

This has given so many people the opportunity to say their farewells and to reflect on how special some connections are with some people even if it is anonymous.

Thank you for paying your respects to a man who meant a lot to a great many of us.

@JimboSaturn Our mutual friend said they knew of a few people that should be notified and I figured I would just go ahead and make an official post about him.
I'm glad I did because I had no idea he had touched this many people.

I know what he meant to me and I am glad this many other people had the privalage of his company.

@Magenta His account made comments in August too. They're deleted now though. I guess someone was using his account - which is weird but well, humans.

Whoever deleted those August comments was probably not that good at math or missed the others somehow.

No one will ever know.

This is why no one has my passwords haha.

@Magicianzini Hmmm... I guess we won't.

Ditto! Why would I give anyone my passwords, right?

@Magenta I'm not sure how that time zone thing works. If it shows you what time and date in your time zone or theirs. LOL

@Pretzel Even though his phone is shut off I couldn't help but send him a last message anyway.

"God speed my friend.:

@OogieBoogie AdaXI actually brought up him not being on in three weeks and was worried.
Stupid me had just messaged him three days ago oblivious to his absence.

So, since we had talked on the phone I knew his town and already new what stae so I looked him up and found it.

I didn't think Chris would mind at this point everyone knowing his real name and what not.
I posted the link because people could leave messages for the family.
I left one with a link to this post so his family could see what an impact he had here.

Sorry again.

@Quimliqer He was an honorable gentlemen.

He and I were chatting in PM here one day a few years back and it turned out he wasn't very comfortable writing and he told me to call him and gave me his number.

I wrote back and told him I didn't do that with people I knew from here, with it being anonymous and all.
He just wrote back and told me not to be such a sissy and to call him. LOL
I am glad I did. Our conversations were normally 3 or 4 hours long.
I don't think I have ever talked on the phone that long to anyone.

He was full of wisdom and had an amazing way of captivating me no matter if he was sharing an amazing story from his life or commenting on some hairbrained thing I had done.

I guess it's normal to have regrets when someone like him passes but I truly wish I had called rather than make that last message.

The world is a little less bright now.

@Dainbramadge The passing of people, like him, leaves a hole in our lives. You were blessed to have known him on such a personal level.

@Quimliqer He kind of came into my life at a point where I could really benefit from his wisdom as well as humor.

@Magenta I knew I wasn't the only person who he had touched deeply.

That is why I posted his obituary without concealing his real name and location.

There is a place at the bottom to leave a message for his family and I am going to leave one and I thought it would be nice if anyone wanted to share their experience with the family it would be nice.

@Dainbramadge He had such a good presence and energy for many years.

And thank you for this.. 😔

@MrSmartyPants He was definitely a true class act.

@Picklebobble2 ay

@Picklebobble2 Great humor and wisdom disguised as a clever joke now and again.

I linked this post to the messages in the obituary so maybe his survivors will be able to see he touched so many even on an anonymous page like this.

@Bexsy He was indeed a remarkable soul.

I shouldn't be surprised to see how many people he has touched here.

It's good to see he will not be forgotten.

@hunkalove I knew he was important to me but now I see he blessed way more people with his charm than just I.

I am glad to see how many people got to know him as a blessed entity here.

I have been going through my past message history with him looking for how he enticed me into calling him. Normally I wouldn't call anyone from here and in all my time on EP and here he is only the second person I have made contact with via phone or any way really outside of S.M it's self.

He and I had some intriguing conversations in PM and those couldn't hold a candle to the hours we spent on the phone together.
He was wise and fun but so gentile with his observations and opinions on some very sensitive issues I have dealt with while being his friend.

In my mind, I think of him as my wise old crazy neighbor that is always around when you need someone to talk to and to think the closest we ever were was a late night phone call.

He is and will be missed.

@ChiefJustWalks He was amazing. You would have really enjoyed his company.

He was a big music lover so apparently you posted some good tunes. :-)

@Dainbramadge I know we've talked at times in passing. He always seemed thoughtful & helpful. Makes me wish I knew him more. I guess in general we should talk to people more & get to know them because we never know. There's lots that deserve to be known

@ChiefJustWalks He is one of two people since way back on EP that I actually had a relationship off SW.
He was a cool guy with a great sense of humor. More than one person has mentioned they had no idea how old he was.
He had a kind of timeless personality.

You should go to his profile and read some of the things he posted like about his brother.
That story was touching and really showed what a wise and thoughtful person he was.

This whole situation makes me wonder who else I am taking for grantid.

@eyeno He was an amazing man.

The stories he shared here were great but to hear him muse and reminisce on the phone was always a sure bet to lose track of time.

@HootyTheNightOwl Yes he is and will be by more people than I realized.
He was a good man.

@kodiac That was touching.

Thank you for this. It is very fitting.

@kodiac Aw, he would've been really touched by that...

@Dainbramadge Sorry we lost him

@Boeing Yes it is.

It's nice to see how many people were aware of him and his contributions.

He met with people on so many different levels here.

HIs absence will be felt for a while.

@TexChik I remember Rooster. He was pretty cool. He tried to get me a job with a company that did video games.

@Dainbramadge He was a Green Beret in Viet Nam. His weapon of choice was a Katana. He was also a pilot and ended up owning a P38. He was a mechanic in civilian life and after his discharge he sold his garage and bought a license to grow Marijuana for dispensaries in California. Of course he tested is products personally, but he made a small fortune doing that. I remember he took his ex wife back in because she was homeless and dying of cancer, then he got cancer and passed himself. He was a nice man (to me anyway) and I admired his service. My adoptive father was a Marine. The Admin booted him off here after a lawsuit he filed against them. So I lost contact and only heard of his demise later from members he stayed in contact with.

@TexChik Rooster passed also?? Aaww. Sorry to know that. 😞
I signed up on a forum he invited me to when he got booted here, but I didn't stay or become active.

@Lostpoet I know man. It kind of hit me like a 299 lbs marshmallow.

I had been real busy and would pop on and shoot him an update and then to find out he hadn't logged in in three weeks.
AdaXI messaged me about it.

@Baybreeze The thing with good friends is they don't have to be an every day occurrence to know they are in your heart.

He had an impact on just about everyone he had any kind of contact with.

He was wise, warm and unafraid to be real.

He seemed to treat every interaction with the same zest.

I am confident he is in a good place now.

@MsSwan From his posts he made here and the things he and I talked about in the wee hours of the mornings made me feel he was a wonderfully wise man with a great sense of humor and outlook on life.
But I can't help but feel he was so much more than even that.

@NudasPriest He was a funny one.
I used to say he was using his "high brow humor" on me when ever I would miss the punch line. LOL

@Dainbramadge I certainly didn't understand every joke of his.

@NudasPriest Well, he was one of them book reading folks and it stands to reason he probably liked them thinking type books. LOL

I actually think he enjoyed the jokes I missed more than the ones I got.

He had a very disarming way of dumbing it down for me on occasion. LOL

@Dainbramadge I am also an EP refugee and was wondering if he was there also, I thought I remembered him being there. I remember you from way back then also, we spoke sometimes. Thank you for this tribute

@InterdimensionalSideEye I am amazed at times at how many of us did transfer to this place but am even more surprised at how many didn't.
EP was a thriving hive of excitement for more than a few yet the active user numbers between the two sights are greatly varied.

Booker was friends with a woman who I too was friends with Skatingmomma.
When we moved here skatingmomma didn't continue on with us.
Booker later reached out to me to see if I had maintained contact with her and he and I started hanging out.

I told her today of his passing and even though they didn't have any further contact since EP she was crushed.

It's amazing the impact some people can have on us.

Thank you for being apart of this.

@Dainbramadge it really is

@Chern0bylplaygr0unds I think he was in a good place in his life and now he is just with better company.:-)

@M00ed Yeah I had just messaged him 3 days ago and had no clue he hadn't responded in a while.

A mutual friend of ours reached out worried and that got me to look into what may have happened.

It really is sad news.

@ShenaniganFoodie Not that it needs it but I could lead over that for days.
Nice.

@MellyMel22 Yeah a mutual friend of mine and Bookers noticed it too.

I on the other hand was still writing to him 3 days ago. LOL

Chris was one person I know would find humor in that.

It is truly heart warming to see all the people he had such a profound impact on here.

He will not be forgotten.

@Dainbramadge He would find humor in most things!

He definitely won’t be forgotten.

❤

@robingoodfellow I knew it wasn't going to be good when I found his phone was disconnected.

I think we are all feeling the loss but are glad to have the closure.

To many people just disappear here for any number of reasons.

This time we know what happened.

@Sutten I have been going back through our message history and laughing.

We went from talking about browsers to quantum stuff. LOL

He was very intelligent and insanely modest about it.

He will truly be missed.

@CookieCrumbs He had a powerful personality that seems to have been very personal with everyone he touched.
I know I was attracted to his straightforwardness because it would be direct and not sugar coated but with warmth and compassion.
He told me he was amazed of the things I had done in my life while just "Bumbling through it." LOL.

His wisdom was through a life truly lived and appriciated.
He would share stories in such depth that you felt like you were there with him while he lived them.
He wrote a few posts here about his father and brother that are still amazing to reread.

He was indeed a true treasure to have been found by, being as he sought me out from interactions with a person from the EP days.

I will miss my 1 am calls for sure.

@Dainbramadge
The people we meet online can have an impact on our lives if we let it happen.

There is the shared interests and experiences part of the friendship, and there is also the willingness to let someone in our protective bubble of emotions.

When we allow both to be nurtured in our online interactions, we can build connections as deep and as real (or even more (as our offline friendships).

I’m deeply sorry for your loss. I cannot imagine how I would feel if I lose the people I regularly interact with here and talk to on the phone. Despite distance, those friendships that we are able to sustain through the years have seen us grow as a human being.

In your times of grief, just remember how you have made Booker’s life happier and meaningful by the friendship you shared. Hugs to you.

@CookieCrumbs That was very thoughtful and moving.
Thank you for sharing that with me.

@Dainbramadge Same, he brought up Tower Records a lot and liked vinyl, being really into audio and used to ask me technical questions... I'd follow up asking him how his Woofers and Tweeters were doing...I'm really glad he lived a full life. I felt like he had some sort of mobility problem, but he wouldn't go into that with me...but I did ask him about his UN and he told me he intended to be BookemDano - but after the typo it just sort of stuck...

@fun4us2b Even down to his user name he was so subtley humorous. LOL

I would share stories kind of like that with him about my life and he could think of the funniest ways to frame them.

He once told me he was fascinated with my life. His words .. " I mean your just bumbling through life and all this stuff is happening to you." LOL

Who else could ever claim you were bumbling through life and it not feel like an insult. LOL

He tried telling me about his sound system but I was ignorant to half of what he shared. Didn't stop him from trying to explain it though. LOL

@Dainbramadge That's funny - he made similar life related comments to me - which was surprising to me how perceptive he could be from a relatively small amount of info...and same - he was good natured about it - so I didn't feel insulted - man, I can't believe it...

@meggie That's what I have been saying since this happened.
People disappear from here all the time and most of the time we never really know what happened.

@meggie Good idea.

@Musicman I agree. The world lost a gleam of light with this one.

@Dainbramadge Yes it did. 😥

@Justmeraeagain It's a sad day for many.

It has given me an opportunity to respond to comments reflecting on all the wonderful things he shared with me in our little time as friends.

There were many fascinating layers to this man.

He may be missed but fondly remembered.

@NerdyPotato I wasn't sure if I should have shared it either.

I thought about editing it withholding his name but there is a place where people who knew him could write a message about him to the family.

He was a very open and personable guy to me and I imagine to others as well.

Thank you for pointing that out though.

@uncalled4 He was a great man. Fun loving and wise.

I think he would find the people, in others threads, that had more texture than most and then reach out in some fashion.

@OogieBoogie Sorry Oggie. When I mentioned him I was thinking you had already seen this post.
Kind of a crappy way to find out.
My bad. This just raced so fast I was having trouble keeping up with it and overlooked telling you.