Brendan Stryker: The Memorial Service
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#100Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:26pmJulie's voice has never sounded better. Now she begins Brendan's favorite song: The Theme From The "Tamarind Seed". Even Corine has put doen the Alize and is weeping. Liam hands her a Kleenex. She doesn't know what to do with it.
#101Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:27pm
This is for you, Brendan...these are all the things I wish I'd said when you were with us... *chokes...can't go on*
(I apologize again for the quality...bad equipment, yadda yadda)
I Love You, BeeBee.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#102Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:31pm
Excuse me, excuse me please. We have one announcement.
There are already a sufficient number of "official" threads, "appreciation" threads and "Brendan Styker" related threads so the "Official Widow Stryker Appreciation" thread has been closed.
All of the widows are receiving guests here in the side chapels. One in each of our 36 sice chapels. You may pay them your condolances here.
Now we return you to the service.
Updated On: 1/14/06 at 11:31 PM
#103Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:31pm
Jose or someone just froze Yenta's "The Official Widow Stryker Appreciation Thread."
Was it because I was about to describe my cybersex sessions with Brendan?
#104Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:44pmI made my speech in honor of Brendan, but I used lyrics from Cabaret. Jose fussed at me. I will not be speaking in his honor again!
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Joined: 12/31/69
#105Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:52pm
"Jose fussed at me."
No, that's not quite what transpired. I brought your attention to the Guidelines which prohibit the posting of copyrighted material. The lyrics to the song "Cabaret" are copyrighted material.
You're response to me was something like, "I'm so sorry. I hadn't realized."
Fussed at you? No.
Feel free to speak to the mourners. Just use your own words.
Updated On: 1/14/06 at 11:52 PM
#106Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:57pmOh lawdy, I was KIDDING.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#107Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/14/06 at 11:57pm
One never kids at a funeral lest the corpse sits up and takes notice.
Updated On: 1/14/06 at 11:57 PM
#108Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:00amOy, you gotta have a corpse, first. Being that this being never existed, it's just a memorial. Now, who is going to sing, "Onward Christian Soldiers?"
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#109Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:04am
I have to say that this has got to be the weirdest/sickest/funniest/saddest thread ever in all of history- not only BWW history.
Who wants to put this all together and make a book?
If this was sent to Funniest Home Videos, it would probably win.
When any of you have an hour or so- you should seriously start at the very beginning of this thread and read through. Also do it for the other Brendan thread.
You will be shaking your head in disbelief.
Other Brendan Thread
#110Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:14ami will miss him, but never understood why he thought my cows were gay
#111Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:37amI love it. It's the MARAT/SADE of BWW dramas.
#112Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 12:51amI just took a xanax in honor of Brendan. And because SNL is so bad. Anyone join me?
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#113Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 3:45am
"i will miss him, but never understood why he thought my cows were gay"
If I could only remember one thing from my almost two years on this site, this is what I would want it to be.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#114Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 9:12am

And now the memorial slide show begins:
Here's a picture of Brendan dressed as Clark Kent. It was at a Halloween celebration we hosted in our home when he was alive.
#115Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 9:52am
He looks at least thirty in that picture. Are you sure those weren't the photos from his youth and he died from natural causes at the ripe old age of 99? I'm just sayin'...
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#116Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 1:10pm
Ivan, is that how you look with glasses?
love, carla
#117Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 1:23pmI thought that was his Rocky Horror Show picture?
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#118Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 1:52pm
Scene outside the chapel:-
Finding Namo 'I don't know how you're doing on the inside, Dollypop, but your hair's just holdin' up beautiful'.
Pal Joey 'Are you okay?'
Dollypop 'I'm fine. I'm FINE. I can jog all the way to Texas and back but Brendan can't. He never could. Oh, God I'm so mad I don't know what to do. I want to know why - I want to know why Brendan's life is over. I want to know how the new posters on this Board will ever know how wonderful Brendan was. Will they ever know what he went through for them? Oh, God I want to know WHYYYYYYY! I wish I could just understand. No, no, no - it's not supposed to happen this way. I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first. I don't think I can take this. I just want to hit somebody until they feel as bad as I do. I want to hit something. I want to hit it hard.'
Finding Namo (drags Baddadnpa back from the other side) 'Here - hit this. Go ahead, Dollypop, slap him! Knock his lights out, Dollypop.....You gotta lighten up.'
#119Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 1:57pm<---- applaudes wildly!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#120Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 1:59pm
I thought that was his Rocky Horror Show picture?
Odd that Brad Majors would have a soul patch, but our Brendan could charm the pants off anybody!
#121Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:00pm
Patti, darlin, THAT is why you're my husband.
BRAVO!!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#122Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:11pm
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Here's a picture of Brendan at the luau we hosted in our back yard last summer. Oh, how Brendan loved a luau! Many a time I'd come home from work early to find the house full of good-looking young men, sitting around the pit and waiting for their piece of pork.
Now these times will never happen again. It's over, and Brendan is gone.
``The Widow Stryker
#123Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:19pm
And now I'd like to read a poem by W. H. Auden....
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#124Brendan Stryker: The Feodor Sverdlov Connection
Posted: 1/15/06 at 2:21pmNo, we don't need a book of this thread. We need a dramatic reading.
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