Death is Weird, But Life is Weirder
(a remote, wireless blog by laptop/satellite)

I'm in the *Bing* at the moment.   The *Bing* is the dance bar where my friend Sunny used to work.  And I have just received from mutliple reliable witnesses some immensely relieving yet still troublesome news: Sunny aka LonelyLittleChic  is still alive.  She was, in fact, in this very bar last night with a guy named John (The Tattoo) Artist.  So unless John is tattooing corpses or zombies, Sunny walks alive amongst us.  Somewhere.

Here's the eulogy I left on my blog following the unconfirmed report from Your_Conscience that Sunny had died in a tragic traffic accident while moving to Buffalo:

She would always shout “Fire in the Hole!”

Loud above the crowd

To set another shot up.  Cuervo. Tequila.

“Fire in the Hole”, always as a reverberating expectation.

 Fire in the Soul.

My most memorable time with Sunny was spent on the afternoon of 911 as we sorted out new visions for America in a bar she called “the Bing”.  Youthful and fiery always, she matched my spirit of warrior defiance on that most tragic day.

Now comes a report from Your_Conscience that Sunny , aka LonelyLittleChic is gone.

May she be blessed forever.

 So what can be said about all of this? 

After Your_Conscience announced her death (he spammed widely around Xanga on July 10th with a comment similar to: "As one of lonelylittlechic's readers and friends, I'm sure you need to read my post." And, in the post referenced, he said he had spoken with Sonny's mother and that she had told him that Sunny had died July 7th.), I wrote him requesting more details.  But never got a reply.  I was cautious.  I reported her death as "a report" from the before-named.  It was the "best information" I had available.  At the time.  I pondered saying nothing.  But realized that if it were true, and I failed to come promptly manifest, that I would be but a small darkling creature huddling immobile in the shadow of a responsibility that I was afraid to assume. 

Yet personally tortured to know more, I returned to the dance bar to ask her former co-workers if they had any more details.  They knew nothing as they heard "the news" from me for the first time.   They would, however, "inquire around" in a fashion that only a fuzzy part of some underworld be's and wannabe's might be familiar with.

Well, they were all in for a shock as Sunny walked in last night with a "report of my death is greatly exagerated" pronouncement.  Brandy. the bargirl, and fiance of the owner's son, and Carson, the table girl, both attested to her ongoing blogworthiness (vitality).

So who is the deceiver?  Your_Conscience (Real name: Jason) in some psycho love-revenge ploy to hurt or damage his ex-fiance?  Sunny's mother in leading Your_Conscience, by his report, into believing she had died?  Or did someone's online persona(s) just devise a conspiratorial deceit to take flight into the night?

I have no idea.

But the girls here tonight are delicious. 

And I have but one thing to say:

"Hey, Brandy, I'll have one more."

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