I woke up Monday to devastating news that Paul Rubens had passed away and you know, you lose,

we lose people all the time. There's always hearing about people that have died and obviously

you know, some, you know, better than others, but it really hit me that Paul was gone. He

didn't tell a lot of us. I don't think any of us that he was sick. He's been fighting, I think,

his illness for a number of years and I just adored this guy and I think one of the things that

people need to know is that obviously the character of Peewee was just mind numbingly funny and

surreal and hilarious and original. He was so funny as as Peewee, but Paul, when he was

Paul Rubens, he was so quick, so razor sharp, such a delightful person, a very sensitive guy.

And you know, I sent this out in a tweet. He would always be sending over on anyone's birthday.

If he knew them even slightly, he would fill their inbox that day with all these silly cartoons

and memes about birthday. Old Disney cartoons, old weird memes about birthday and cats falling

into birthday cakes and he would do it all day long and it wasn't just me. It was just anybody

that he encountered. He would do this for and such a lovely way of, we all just want to feel

seen or recognized and for someone like Paul to do that for so many people. It's just a gorgeous

kind of statement. That's a gorgeous statement of who he was and I have a bunch of memories,

but one thing, you know, he came to my Christmas party this year and he brought I think 15 gifts

all individually wrapped and they're all silly things, but individually wrapped gifts.

My Christmas party the year before he brought a Peewee Chiapet head. So I put it out on display

this last year and Paul came and it was, did you guys see him? Yeah, I did.

He was there and it's hard to believe this is what five months ago, whatever it was, but he was

at the party and he brought all these gifts so many that Paul died on Monday and I came up stairs

and it really hit me hard and I walked into the area just right next to my kitchen and I suddenly

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