July 31, 2007
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Terry Cuthbert's Webshots Gallery
I "met" Terry Cuthbert when he left a comment on my blog soon after I started blogging in 2004. It was a comment from "Lord Pineapple", one of the many blogs Terry wrote on Xanga. I didn't have many people comment when I first started, and so I went over to "Lord Pineapple" to check him out. At first I didn't know how to relate to the blog. Terry was a poet, a clown, and a master chronicler of the human condition, and he wrote under many "guises". This confused me at first, but within a matter of days, as I maneuvered through his many blogs and websites, I began to get a picture of the totality of humankind as protrayed by the many "personas" in Terry's bag of tricks.
Listed in the "expertise" section of Terry's profile, he wrote: "Poems by Lord Pineapple, Sophie Morgan, blackie fortuna, Horace Smith Esq. Wee Duncan D. Ingar Gorse, Jacques du Lumerie, The Rev. Tobias Trontby, "Empty Chairs", Tiffy Witherington, Three-Headed Sarahs', Marie St. Denis, AND guests. " Throughout his life, the Englishman known as "Terry Cuthbert" had written thousands of poems "attributed" to these "characters", from an 8 year old girl, to a priest, to a blind man, and including an extraterrestial three headed bird called "The Three-Headed Sarahs'".
I was almost overwhelmed with his output, which exceeded my own attempts at poetry. We visited each other's blogs and websites, and a friendship grew, but this friendship wasn't really allowed to blossom and grow. Terry was a victim of cancer, and he passed away exactly two years ago, on July 31, 2005. Occasionally I will peruse the Lord Pineapple blog, and his Homestead website, plus his last blog on Xanga, More Than Just Crabs. I still leave him "comments". I miss you, "old bloke", and I wish to remember you this day, your last day inhabiting the souls of your many "personas".
Most Xangans knew Terry from his "Sarah's" and from his poetry, but Terry and I shared a love of photography as well. He didn't post his photos on his Xangas, and soon after I 'met" him, he established a Webshots Gallery, which is still online. I particularly liked his shots of English and Scottish busses and his penchant for taking snaps of telephone booths and mailboxes. Below, in tribute to this little known side of Terry's bag of tricks are some of his photos of busses and telephone booths. Links to his photos, poetry , and his "last blog" conclude this entry.
As I do every July 31st, I raise a pint in tribute to this wonderfully witty and omnipresent Xangan. I invite you to the do the same as you enjoy his photos
Blackpool June 5, 2005
Oxford. May 19, 2005
Oxford
Blackpool
Queen's Lane Post Apr 27, 2005
St. Giles Oxford Apr 29, 2005
EDIT: 5:22pm pdt. I'm adding a few more carefully selected photos because I wasn't really prepared this morning when I posted, which was from work, and just hurridly nabbed a few images right before beginning the workday. All these photos can be clicked to show the larger image. I'm a sucker for lighthouses and old English busses. I can imagine Terry out roaming the Island taking photos. A lot of the photos in his Webshots Gallery were actual photographs scanned into the computer, and he uploaded a lot of them in a very short amount of time. I think he knew he had a "need" to document his life online, and the photos are as much a part as the poetry. As far as I know, the free Webshots accounts stick around in perpetuity, so hopefully Terry's photographic skills will be checked out by those who only previously knew him as a talented poet. MFN
Blackpool Tram May 3, 2005 I believe this is a touristy seaside resort. Love the font and the colors on this trolley.
Scrapped West Midland busses. May 3, 2005 I really like this shot of an English bus graveyard.
Rossendale May 19, 2005 Here Terry gets a snap of one of the more modern double deckers as it leaves the garage.
Thanks to Becca (LittleEgypt) for maintaining Terry's Xanga blogs as a legacy to this wonderful poet, photographer, and man.
Comments (51)
Terry was a big reason I stayed with blogging in the early days. He showed me what could be done, and he was always supportive. I will always miss him, and I surely thank Becca for all of her efforts.
Wonderful tribute!
Man, I remember Three_Headed_Sarahs, from the BXU and such...now I feel old.
Terry and I went way back. We were on several poetry sites together for quite a few years. I always loved his poetry, his characters, his wit, his charm, his keen eye for the human condition.
I miss him terribly. One of the first places we met was way back on Poet's Quill. We had some great times.
Cyn raises her root beer mug to her old friend......RIP, old buddy.
PS. If you roam around his sites a bit, you will read poetry and such he and I entertained each other with for such a long/short time. My fav. that I wrote for him was the haiku....I will see if I can find it and post it on my site.
Sadly, Terry passed away before I was able to know him. Once, I had the opportunity to meet him in person, but it slipped away. I'm glad his vast work is still available to appreciate. Thanks, Mike, for sharing this today.
Great tribute. RYC: I don't have a video camera so I use my small digital. It is hard to hold still. I was laughing in this one, but sometimes I have to hold the little camera up for too long. I know the quality is bad, that's why I am not a video person. It served it's purpose though. :sunny:
Wow, this is a wonderful tribute. It's great that you keep his memory so alive even after he's passed away.
<3
is there a register for dead people on Xanga?
sort of like a graveyard for the blogs of the dearly departed.
i do research on the internet for my boss.
he's a real devil.
It's good of you to keep the memory alive
Dear Michael, Those are really beautiful pictures, and it is so sweet of you to keep his memory alive like this. (((Hugs)))
I can't believe it's been that long already, but in some ways it seems longer. There was really a big hole in Xanga for quite a while after his death; and his presence is still missed by many. I thought it was so kind of him to drop by my site, although I was never sure what to think when it was The Sarahs! Whichever character he was, he was unforgettable!
Hiya Michael! :wave:
What wonderful photos (as always) and great tribute. Thanks so much for bringing us on this trip.
BE blessed,
Steve :sunny:
Wow, has it really been two years already. Loved getting a look back at Terry's photos, thank you for posting them (and remembering him).
Sandy
(what is this 'password to view private comments? Xanga has changed much since I last perused on by)
In his apartment Terry had many, many files of photoes he had taken. One file he showed me was entirely devoted to sewer covers!!!! In his living room where he stayed the entire time I was there, he had shelves on all four walls and in between cabinets filled with memoribilia. There was just barely enough room to walk between them. In all this seemingly untidy room, there was something that brought tears to my eyes. At the end of the room was a bank of windows with only roofs as a view. Upon the ledge, Terry had lined up bottles of different shades of blue. We were very alike in our reading habits and he often urged me to take any books from the shelves that interested me. One that I brought home with me was a small book of his poetry that was published early in his life. It is dear to me. I knew in my heart that I needed nothing material to keep his memory alive, yet I am grateful for the pictures I took whilst there. The one I love the most is on the patio of the room at the hospice where he spent his last days. His brother snapped our picture there and Terry looks so happy. I went there to help him and he reversed that and was such a help to me. I will be forever grateful for him and our time together.
Thank you, dear friend.
Hi Michael! Love the photo's you posted. I am just getting around to saying hello to everyone! :hugs: Hope all has been well with you!
Barbi
how great! I will check out those links...
Wonderful tribute, Mike. Terry was my first Xanga friend. I was a little miffed because all of his Homestead.com pages are gone now.. (damned AOL greedy bastards) But his several non-premium Xanga pages are still there, like Bob Smartass, Tiffy Witherington and The Clowne from Clown. He shut down his Three Headed Sarah's site himself because he was feeling guilty that some of his more prudish readers were offended. Damn them! Many kudos to you, sir.
:heartbeat: Yes I remember Terry well! Cheers <|_|*|_|> raising and clinking mugs... he always had some very fun comments. I first found him as Wee Duncan then on to the Three Sarahs and then to Lord Pineapple.:heartbeat:
i was revisiting some of his sites a week ago. i do that when i'm feeling a bit out of sorts with the world and my own writing. while it's sad to know he's not with us now, his poetry still refreshes and regenerates me! beautifully remembered!
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