is there an ask rrrobyn thread?

yayyyyyy rrrrrrrrobyn!!!

rrrrrrybyn and hyr warryr wymyn visited me tonight at the store!

such a treat. just as beautiful in person as she is in the pictures.

just hope she didn't get any of my residual winter cold. hopefully not. i don't think i'm toxic anymore. goddess preserve her.

awes

<3

yaay! + aw :)
meeting scott was radness - and rufus too! i wish i could have spent more time at the store, but did have to run off to the wylds for the wkend, which was awesome and whoa :) we had delicious pizza at magpie beforehand tho! and no colds, nope. i'm all lovin greenfield and area - magic is a afoot there even if not everyone can see it oooh

<3 rrrobyn

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OTM

:) <3 this is very nice to wake up to <3 :)

How is rrrobyn?

aw i am fine :)

i've been doing a lot of thinking+action re: life direction. whew.
i also started reading novels again, like the whole novel, not just the first few chapters and skimming the rest, which is great.
i'm happy about vacation action at the end of March: going to Maui with my mom! then Vancouver, then NYC!
also i saw a record three former/part-time ilxors this weekend here in mtl and that fun :) saw art and did crowd karaoke with two of them and ate smoked meat with all three. good times!

also:
recorded an album's worth of crazy last weekend with my band
kicking ass with rock climbing
still writing things

hm
i am pretty busy, in weird ways

yaaaaaaaay

are you a full-time LA worker now, adm? Is life good?

i was happy to eat smoked meat with you & the others this weekend robyn! even if i was completely brainfried

I am a full-time worker, more than full-time in fact! Was that what I was wrestling with when you were here?

And yes thank you, life is good. LA is good. I am at home drinking some kind of sangria and trying to edit a little movie project.

I wish I could go Mtl =(

i was super happy to eat smoked meat with you & "the others" on the wkend too! :) good to walk & talk in the fresh air too - helpful for the brainfriedness really!

adm, when i was in LA, you were in the home stretch of school and wondering where/what re: work. so that is very good to hear :) i totally want to visit again! i would like to visit SF friend at some point this year too and so wouldn't an LA road trip be great...

do you have a cat yet

yes visit Mtl! some time! :)

Oh yes, I work in a totally bizarre place. Weirdest job I'll ever have, I'll tell you about it some time.

Haha, no I can't have a cat! I want one though. Recently I have wanted a dog, which I also can't have. My friend (a childhood friend of cutty's!) has a really cool French bulldog and I want that.

Yes, come to LA! Maybe I'll go Mtl

It's really snowy here right now and they're clearing the streets.
Part of this process is that a truck goes down the street blaring this weird honking siren so that people come out of their houses to move their cars, if they've forgotten to move their cars or read the signs that tell them to move their cars. This is happening right now. And of course someone forgot, leaving their truck parked and covered in snow right outside my window. The honking truck just honked at it again, for 2 minutes. Now it is getting towed. Mtl is really harsh on cars, in several different and expensive ways.

aw it is sad that you can't have a cat or a dog :( but you will live! friends with pets are good for helping with that. though i feel like i can't live without having at least one cat, but that's me.

i'm glad that your job is weird tbh! :)

I saw a really great Canadian movie by a HOT, YOUNG Mtl-based director today!!! =D

xp I guess. I was tearing up today from how weird it is. It is like being in a Christopher Guest movie about art!

tearing up as in from laughter, not despair

haha good!

HOT, YOUNG Mtl-based directors are the best kind!!

yes, you're so Locki to live there!!

hahaaa!
it's true tho

I read a French sci fi novel a few months ago that mostly took place in mtl and wondered if rrrobyn would fit in as a character

oh of course she wld, don't be so silly

http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/22779000/ngbbs4dca00ba0ffa9.jpg

What is this book

Ps thanx ads

i could seriously do my hair like that
tho it isn't red (yet...)

The book was "Babylon Babies" by Maurice Dantec. It had some good passages and interesting ideas but I'd give it a mixed review.

There's a movie that's barely based on a few things in the book starring Vin Diesel. Movie lacks Mtl, though.

My loves and my doves, some of you might have seen a recent fb post by ilxor rrrobyn with some not encouraging news about her current condition. It's awfully, hatefully, worse than that, and she has been moved to hospice.

If you know her, maybe send her your love and affection. If you want to support another way, there is a fund that I just found out about. It supposedly closes tomorrow but we might be able to request an extension. Anyway if you want to and can, it's here.

so unfair. so so so unfair. love rrrobyn. one of my my all-time fave people. she sent me a nice message not long ago. i'm going to post something on her facebook wall. if any of you are FB friends of hers feel free to add to it. not a sad thing. a nice thing. :(

:(

thank you so much, in orbit, for posting that link

^^^ Thanks, IO

oh fuck. thank you for the update, L ❤️

hi :(

good to seeya slock. wish it were under better circumstances.

same bud.

can’t sleep, just lying here thinking about how wonderful (rr)robyn is

fucking hell

Wait - I had no idea. I don't think I'm fb friend with R. This is horrible.

can’t sleep either. lucky to have met her when she once passed through LA

Thank you for the link

I am so sorry to hear about this. I don't know rrrobyn well at all, but her title and opening post from the Nov 2008 WDYLL thread always come to mind for me in the Halloween season.

Oh no it's November 2008 it's dark it's scary it's cold but whatever, What Do You Look Like?

This is unbearably sad. I’ve watched her beautiful kid grow up over the years on the socials. I think we’ve only met the once, Bell House, Brooklyn, April 2012.

I haven’t known what to say so I haven’t said anything. rrrobyn is fantastic.

A mutual friend who is closer to Robyn and in better communication with her has been giving me updates and asked me to share a couple of opportunities here:

First of all, Robyn's colleagues at Delve are making a whole podcast for her. I don't know exactly where or when it will be airing, but they're asking:

We are creating a personalized podcast for Robyn. Please send a song that you think Robyn might like and a one-minute voice recording explaining why you chose the song.

Song: Send the YouTube link for the piece of music so we have the right version. We'll take care of downloading the full version.

Voice recording: Use your phone's voice memo feature [to record] a 60-second explanation [of the song].

Please send both to eric.dicaire @ mc gill.ca

Email without the spaces obv.

The second opportunity, set up by someone else, is a Spotify playlist being made that anyone can add songs to. That playlist is here.

There are several Billy Joel songs already on the playlist so no disrespect to the man (Allyzay would end me) but Robyn is so much wonderfuller and weirder than that. Go forth.

I wish i had gotten Rufus and Rrrobyn together up in Montreal. They would have liked each other a lot. This is their last year at McGill.

Can someone tell me what kinda stuff she likes?

re-reading this thread is making me smile, but in the saddest way. I wish I could remember some of the stuff we were talking about better, but I'm so happy these fleeting conversations are preserved here.

alden turns ten today

: /

She's gone.

https://www.facebook.com/share/C62L5qzFv41Up24p/?mibextid=oFDknk

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I didn’t know her but would love to give her kid a big hug right now

Love you, Robyn! I'll always remember you and how much you used to make me laugh.

Back in 2006, Robyn and I were Gchat pals, and she invited me to visit Montreal and stay with her for a few days. She was the best host. We walked around the city a lot, hung out with her friends, went to a dance party. I remember her as funny, empathetic, curious about the world, and just generally full of life. The kind of person you want to be more like.

We didn't keep in touch much after that (apart from ILX), but I've been feeling sad and not sure what to say since this thread was revived last week. What a loss. May she rest in peace.

RIP Robyn, this is such terribly sad news

I wish I'd gone to Mtl to stay with her and silent-dance-party at the winter festival and do all the things she introduced us to via her life and her journalism and her love of fun. She was a sage and a mystic who looked for the unseen. I am so lucky that our lives touched for a while.

That's a lovely post.

I don't know what to say, but I also want to say so much. I had typed something out and accidentally lost it the other day, and it seems so wrong to say anything in the past tense. But she was always a being in the universe, and I feel like she still is, even if it's not in the same way

Robyn was fiercely independent, but also the person most generous in spirit I've known. She was constantly in motion, moving forward, and doing anything with her felt like an adventure. Take her hand, and away you go, off to do great things. You'd have to hold on tight, because she just would not stop. She cared so much. I can't even say the world is a little less bright today, because I feel like she'd take issue with that and demand it be brighter.

scott, you'd be happy to know that the first time I dropped by her place, she pointed out a mixtape that you had made and sent to her. She was so happy that you'd done that!

awww...

https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/robyn-fadden-rip

Thank you scott.

a nice little remembrance by s1ocki at the end of his latest newsletter:

https://www.markslutsky.com/archive/something-good-103-all-i-want-to-do-is-read

robyn's ilx presence made a big mark on me. rip to a giant.

RIP, such a thoughtful presence on ILX

i read the two montreal alt-weeklies that s1ocki and robyn wrote for every week throughout my adolescence. they both came out on monday, and id read them on the metro and bus to school. it’s kind of crazy that there were two anglophone alt weeklies in a majority francophone city. and maybe it’s just nostalgias rose tinted glasses but iirc they were both unusually exceptionally good? the quantity and quality of reporting on local nightlife, art, film screenings, made the city feel really huge and lively and wide-open to me. montreal in the 2000s was a pretty magical place (and in many ways it still is) but i think a lot of the effect im describing was the product of the infectiousness of the enthusiasm of writers like robyn. it’s so wonderful that robyn had a platform to project the enthusiasm and curiosity that many of the people who knew her personally are attesting to so widely. writing and posting feels so different now with the internet being what it is, and it’s easy to fall into being a cynical crabby couch potato. but the kind of writing and work robyn devoted her career to, which propulsively brought things happening in the outside world to the page, does have an outsized impact that stretches really far outside it’s initial radius, and goes a long way in imbuing the world with the magic life force in the minds of so many people

i love to hear that flopson! (slight correction: they came out on thursday, so people could plan their weekends)

right!

much love and condolences to you man <3

I initially met rrrobyn irl after I'd had a really shitty time in my own life and just needed to get away and do something fun. I ended up deciding the mutek festival in mtl was up my alley and ended up meeting her there. She wrote artist bios for their festival programs (in that same inimitable style mentioned in the mRb article) and occasionally did artist interviews at the festival.

I've ended up heading up to mtl for the festival again and our schedules lined up the following year so we spent a lot more time bouncing between events, along with some other trips I ended up taking. She was frustrated when she ended up spraining her ankle in 2014 and couldn't come out after the first couple days of mutek. This was the beginning of June, so she was almost five months pregnant at that point but slowing down wasn't really a thing she did.

I've never met either of her brothers, but she had a lot of funny stories about them. She had a friend visiting the west coast, and robyn passed on the contact info for her brother who lived out near Vancouver. I guess he ended up taking the friend on some wild adventure and when they got back they were like, "I didn't know I was going to get Fadden'd!!"

ha!

just saw something i wanted to tell rrrobyn about and then paused and realized

still dealing with similar situations seven years after my dad died; i guess it just shows how important some people are

i had a FB memory come up that reminded me I bought my Snuggie (tm) blanket bc rrrobyn said they were so good & i still have it & it reminds me of her & sigh

i didn’t know rrrobyn irl but i was very sad and also shocked to learn she had died. she always seemed so alive, a most beautiful, bright, joyful spark of a person, and it was striking how much she was adored by everyone who knew her. i liked knowing she was out there in the world, enjoying life and making others enjoy it more too. my condolences to all who loved her so deeply and are missing her now