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About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone

Many of us have come to know Patrick Malone (Lugnut) as a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable and kind individual. He is a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to our analog discussion forum. He has initiated only 17 threads, but responded to 559 threads. I would guess that many, if not most, of us can recall a time when Pat replied with helpful advice to a question we posted or helped us track down a rare recording. I have come to love Pat as a friend, and to respect him as a man, and I suspect many of you share those feelings.

Today I write to share difficult news with you. Pat has been diagnosed with an aggressive stomach cancer. It has yet to be determined whether surgery will even be worth it. If surgery is performed, most or all of the stomach will be removed, and Pat would face a difficult and long post-op period in the hospital. The medical course is still uncertain, but will be determined soon. Whatever is decided, it will not be easy or pleasant.

Something may be planned in the future to assist the family. For now, Pat could use some of the friendship he so often and willingly showed us. You can email Pat at: lugnut50@msn.com. You can also mail cards, letters ... or whatever. You may email me for Pat's mailing address. My email is: pfrumkin1@comcast.net.

I hope to spend a few days with Pat in Idaho or Nebraska (from which he hails) soon. Between this news, my legal work, getting ready for family arriving for the holidays, Audio Intelligent, and trying to make plans to visit Pat, my head is spinning. If you email me and I don't respond, please understand that I am not ignoring you, but rather simply do not have time to reply.

Pat may or may not have time to respond to posts here, to emails, or to cards mailed to him. But he has asked me to convey to each and every one of you that he has cherished your friendship, your comradery, and sharing our common hobby on this great website.

As we prepare for our holiday season celebrations, and look forward to -- as we should -- enjoying this time of year, I ask that you keep Pat and his family in mind ... and softly offer up, in quiet moments in the still of night and early morning, prayers for Pat and his family. God bless.

Warmest regards to all,
Paul Frumkin
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paul_frumkin OP
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Welcome back, Pat. Glad to hear you beat that nasty infection and are now feeling better. Yeah ... have Steve help you get everything set up ... lay back in that recliner ... apply some enhancer ... and spin some vinyl. Now ain't that livin' large?

Here's hoping you feel stronger and better with every passing day.

Warmest regards,
Paul
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jmcgrogan2
6,346 posts
 
Welcome back Pat! Good to hear from you, I do hope your condition will continue to improve.

I'll be very interested in your impressions on Greendale, that is high on my list for new vinyl purchases.

Although to be honest, I haven't had as much time to listen to the harvest I reaped at Christmas. I must have been good, because I got about 2 dozen new LP's for Christmas. I have listened to them all at least once, but I just never seem to get as much listening time as I'd like. I need to get a dedicated listening room, that will help. My boys are getting older, so it shouldn't be too much longer until I can steal one of their bedrooms and convert it to my own private domain.

Anyway, here's to better health, quality tunes and great friends I say (raising my mug).

Cheers,

John
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Pat, now that you got the tabacky back in your pipe, how 'bout we start solving them world problems?!

First off, who's gonna be the first to open a high-fi store and bring Audiogon to downtown Bagdhad? How about Sunni Sound? Hussein's Hi-Fi? Salah Al-Din Yussif Ibn Ayub Audio & Video? Ahmed & Khalid's Stereo?
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jmcgrogan2
6,346 posts
 
Gunbei, I've already invested in Allah B Back Analog Shop.
lugnut
1,190 posts
 
Steve came over today and we set up my new stand and the amp stands. They look good and I'm proud to say the stage depth improved. We inserted the Supratek and the system sounds wonderful. We'll be mixing in various new pieces for quite some time to find the best synergy. Steve is a good, faithful and dear friend who is fearless in the face of my enemy. God bless him.

Paul checks up on me all the time. There must be an especially nice little corner in Heaven for guys like Paul. I've known him my whole life or so it seems.

John, the Greendale set is worth buying to hear Neil play some blues licks. I'm guesing that one of my life long pals will be bringing over the DVD which I hope makes understanding the story more fun. The set is pretty pricey but it's recorded really well on the best of vinyl. All the other stuff that comes with it is cool. All the art work is Neil's and there is a bunch, a bumper sticker, a 7" record I don't have a clue about and some other stuff I've forgotten. Buying it depends on big of a fan you are but I'm guessing it's a low production number which makes it a good investment.

Dean, world events and politics don't seem to have a lot of meaning EXCEPT my heart is warmed by the possibility of a self governing Iraqi people. The next ten years is going to be a challenge for them and I wish them the best from the bottom of my heart. To this end everyone should be on the same page but alas....GWB will enjoy an especially nasty place in the history books over the real issues of illegal invasion of our country, exporting of jobs, importing of cheap labor, outsourcing industry and sucking up the wicked empire. To be fair he is just continuing what was begun around the time of Richard Nixon. Lugnut has spoken.

Baghdad will enjoy huge prosperity and high end audio will be there in no time if....It's gonna have to be an Ali, Ahmed or the like that'll open it up as I don't expect there will be any foreigners dumb enough to do it. Unless they get the power to stay on for awhile the high end market may be comprised of systems like Tom Lyons complete with batteries. No doubt their systems will be analog with all the raw materials they have.
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