Bruce Caudle 1950-2001

Two brief flash animation tributes are available for viewing. The animations are large files, & playback will suffer if you have a slow internet connection. If they play haultingly or stop, let them stumble through fully once as far as it will go & play again. They should behave normally the second time.

VIEW FLASH ANIMATION TRIBUTE

DOGGO (pictured during his brave, if futile struggle with alcoholism) reflects on his former owner, Bruce:

Lord knows, I put up with him
as long as I could!

 

There is a semi-official coyness about the authorship of this website, but many of you know who we are - and just as many of you know how heartbroken we are at Bruce's grossly premature passing.

The web offers us a quick & inexpensive way to assemble an appropriate remembrance. Please share with us any photographs, written remembrance or other items which we may thread together & post here.

The e-mail address for any contributions is dean@haplessdilettante.com

If you haven't the wherewithal to provide electronic versions of your contributions, e-mail us anyway. We will provide you with a mailing address & take care of that for you.

Please remember whom you are dealing with here. While sentimentality and reverence are okay for a bit, they don't do adequate justice to our subject or his memory. Have the courage that John Cleese displayed at Graham Chapman's funeral to say "Nonsense! Good riddance to the freeloading bastard". [More thoughts on that balance from Bob Devereux's poem: Man Behind the Mask.]

We think he's running around on the astral plane announcing his own death anyway, judging from any number of uncanny coincidences. While he managed to discretely closet it in recent years, he always was a glutton for attention ...

Um ...

Oh my god ...

Whom are we kidding?

The Editors

Electric Bruce Stuff (aka Bruce-oriented stupid internet tricks):

There is a mailing list which you may join and through which you can address and chat with an impressive collection of his associates at one swat. If interested, follow this LINK. To protect everyone from internet predators, one of us humans has to approve your first posting - after that you're on your own.

go to bruce mailing list info page

Newly Published or Republished Bruce Opera:
(check back - these lists are growing)

Contributed Recollections, Talismans & Artifacts:
* Winner: Iridium Peccary Award

 

The basis of the left picture is the cover of a CD made especially for Bruce several years ago. That picture, in turn, was built up from a production photograph of Bruce's character in the 1985 production of Greg Seagle's Albert. The white lettering was added for this particular display. Bruce also contributed "My Breakfast with the Scream" (nearly unbeknownst to him) to this website, and that is accessible here from the table of contents.