tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post8534648443495165915..comments2023-11-23T04:26:01.790-08:00Comments on Gone & Forgotten: TRULY GONE&FORGOTTEN : SGT. SPOOKCalamity Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800364546694770009noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243661303845968536.post-75951112084189393672017-06-16T08:50:10.609-07:002017-06-16T08:50:10.609-07:00Most striking about Sgt.Spook's debut -- besid...<i>Most striking about Sgt.Spook's debut -- besides the explosion that killed him, I suppose -- is his blase manner in the face of his sudden demise.</i><br /><br />Hey, his name was "Sergeant Spook." Of course he's pretty blase about dying and becoming a ghost. It's like Denis Leary's awful-yet-grotesquely-kind-of-funny line about Lou Gehrig dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease: "How do you not see that coming?"<br /><br />Maybe he hoped it would happen in his sleep when he was older, instead of dying in a fire, but what'cha gonna do?<br /><br />One imagines his dad telling him from an early age, "Son, your name is Sargent Spook. Your mom and I aren't sending you to Juilliard. You're a helluva fine pianist, and I'll always be proud of you and I'll always be impressed by your gift. But after high school, you're going to the police academy or you're going in the Army. One or the other. Because you, son, have a destiny. You're Sargent Spook."Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.com