I received an email from Puppylove Sugarsteel

I wasn't here during his zenith, I must have come around just as the sunsetting was really start to enfeeble his brain, but there were multiple times I wanted to ask if I was supposed to take him seriously or if he was a really committed Andy Kaufman/Tony Clifton-esque character, and in the latter case to what degree we were to play along. There was this mythology around him as a great poster, but all I ever saw was a confused semi-literate, semi-coherent old man full of empty bombast.

I think having not witnessed the precipitous decline, I'll prefer to remember him as the Neil Hamburger of hardcore husky, the unfunny comedian who is the only guy not in on the joke, but maybe he was and was JUST THAT GOOD.

First off, real talk, love or hate Pup he was a HCH institution so if this departure is permanent it marks the end of an era.

I’d always flip back and forth from feeling deep compassion for the man one minute to rolling my eyes at his idiocy and overblown sense of self-importance the next.

There will never be another like him.

So @puppylove_sugarsteel, if you’re reading this, thank you for the entertaining poasts... I will always treasure my “Soup” moniker.

XOXO, your favorite gay man,
DDJ

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