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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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nrchy
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Pat, I'm glad I called Friday instead of Thursday, after reading your post. It was great to talk with you again.

I can't imagine the yo-yo to which you refer! To prepare for something dreaded, only to have it postponed is more than I can wrap my little mind around. From a distance you seem to deal with it so well, but the inner turmoil must be profound. I didn't like "Groundhog Day" when it was only a poor movie, much less when it's a part of the life of a friend.

I missed the Star Trek episode about the Vinylians and the Digitarians. Did it have something to do with fingers and rubber gloves??? Reminds me of a recent trip to the... oh, never mind!
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Ahh, the Vinylians and the Digitarians. Long ago, the Vinylians declared that the world was flat because that is the way the platter was spun. The Digitarians decried that that wasn't the case since the digital domain was all around us. Captain Lugnut (He hadn't made it to General at the time) helped the people to understand that they both were right but they each were on the other side of the fence and should learn to accept each other. Both sides agreed to agree to disagree and just enjoy the music and the Captain became General.

How does that sound. Lugnut, more power to you ;-)

Greg
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HELLO AUDIOGON! So enjoyed meeting many of you in Denver at the recent RMAF. Getting together with Pat and Barb was my main reason for coming out and all the nice new people I met and great music was just icing on the cake!

Pat so loves the music and the related equipment to maximize enjoyment. He shares this with his family and his friends freely and often. He has done this for all of the 30 years I've known him since college. As we went from room to room enjoying music and auditioning systems at the RMAF we noticed the demographic of the presenters and the attendees. The age demographic we felt was the most dramatic. Having more young people enjoy high end audio seemed a compelling goal and we agreed it would be good for everybody.

On the plane on the way back home to Omaha I had a flash idea.
I ran it by Pat the other day and he felt touched and comfortable with the idea so here goes:
Let those of us members of the Audiogon and other listening communities pull together and pool our resources both personal and commercial to set up a yearly scholarship in Pat's name.The scholarship offering will be for a selected person(s) under 30 years old to have their tranportation, lodging and admission to the RMAF or other similar event paid for by the foundation. The selection process could be done any number of ways and the number of awards and nominations could vary greatly. The criteria should be simple and forthright. By this posting I hope to start a chain reaction involving many others much more knowledgable than I about the logistics and specifics. I think it is a worthy idea and Pat did as well.

I welcome any and all responses to this query via this forum for all to see, or at my personal email jmccabe1@prodigy.net

Warm Regards to All,
Ampster (Jeff McCabe)

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albertporter
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Patrick Elowishis, alias Lugnut, alias Pat Malone, alias part that holds wheel on.

It might not be better living through chemistry, but if it gets you well enough to party with us again at the Porter house, you and the previous gang, TWL and Barb are all welcome.

I am sincerely grateful for the time we spent at RMAF in Denver. That is the first time I had a chance to meet Barb in person. I would wish for angels to watch over you but I believe she beat me to it by standing up for you.

I love you my friend and hope you get better. I may call that doctor yet and give him a thrashing
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Jeff - good to see you here. It was a pleasure to met you at RMAF. Any friend of Pat's is... well, crazy! Oh, I mean an friend of mine!

I like the scholarship idea and would be glad to contribute. Maybe this should be run by AudiogoN and a new post started. Jeff, you're not the first nominee are you?!?

As far as TWL and Dallas... I talked to Tom at RMAF and he really would like to visit Albert. I don't know if it is possible right now, plans have not been made, as much as wishes expressed. I don't know who should take up the task of arm twisting?!?

If this comes to pass, I will do everything I can to be there. I'm just not sure Albert could take another group of crazies descending upon his abode.
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