Monday, February 9, 2009

Will ya stop talking about funerals?!!

I can't believe how society deals with the sick & destitute -- first they try to lock you up in hospices (places to die soon); then they keep making these creeping arrangements for funerals BEHIND MY BACK!

Hey folks I'm alive, ok? Face it! I'm in real bad shape, but, still keep on truckin!

Vultures of the world, religion industry and cancer industry leaches, leave me alone! I love being at home and that's where I want to be!!! (or travelling whenver possible)

Let's live a day a a time, always enjoying the sun, friends' love & all that is around!

Keep all the morbid talk to yourselves you doomers!

12 comments:

Hans Sweden said...

I miss you LEON

Hans Sweden

Darren said...

hey leon, so sad you're gone. it was great knowing you. your performances at Shake Well in the early 90s really changed the way i thought about making work. always enjoyed talking to you. miss you.

and, please, warm a seat for me; it's only a matter of a few years.

Sarah|BHood said...

I first met you through a great cartoon you published about Caribana. You've had a unique viewpoint always and I'm so sorry it's not in this world any more.

Unknown said...

"What is good for USA, is not necessarily good for Canada". Leon. Miss you in kensington, and now I miss you on earth.

Hans Sweden said...

http://groak67.wordpress.com/category/leon/

Cat said...

arrgh... another good one bites the dust. But Leon certainly shook that dust as high (or low) as he could. Never let that dust to settle!
missing your warmth and laffs!

Hotel Gripe said...

hi Leon. we didn't get a chance to talk before you passed away. we lived together on Ossington for a brief period-- do you remember? it is hard to believe that you are not around and when i received the news from Susan via email a few days ago, it came as a really sad shock. i miss you and will think of you often, Andrew Szatmari

Susan said...

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

Leon did both of the above, leaving an exhausted and empty-handed crew behind. This was the ultimate disappearing act.

I always thought he would make a very interesting old man one day, maybe even a wise one. He had an old world/new world dichotomy about him, as if he were from a different time and place, but also always endeavouring to be hip with the times. If he had reached old aga, he might have been something like the funny old Jewish trouble-maker with all the speed boats in his documentary film.

Leon usually had a vision for things that he was doing that was apparent only to him. I couldn't understand an internet cafe in Toronto with lousy or non-existent coffee that would also be a book/junk shop and an art gallery among other things. I realize now it was a meeting place for people and that's the purpose that all of Leon's storefronts served. Seeing all his cartoons on a sign outside his final tiny storefront in the desolate Down Town East Side, I thought how much just that one little sandwich board animated a place that's pretty hard to animate.

And why run for mayor in one's final year of life? Because it made him feel alive, I guess.

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Hans said...

Wanted to post about a new link to my site about my brother Leon.
I can promise you all that he still is there but not here.
He sended me some fantastic pictures with the letter L at the bottom.
(Yes I am spiritual/medial)
the spirits contact us most easy with symbols, pictures and -music.
I also got some info from our father, Julek Izrael Kaplan


http://leonkaplan.wordpress.com/

(was not able to log in at my old account here so I created a new)

Regards and all the best

Hans Sweden

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