The Dead Thread

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 10 Jan 2015, 01:35 PM

ECW Zombie. 1/7/15

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There's a bit of a story behind why I'm sharing this.
I got hooked on the Ron and Fez show years ago, but due to their air time conflicting with my work (and the show is definitely NSFW) I looked for ways to d/l the show even though I had XM. I found a guy on Demonoid named artielange09 that upped the show every day.
Eventually, he left the torrents and started his own private blog, the Ron & Fez UniverCity under the pseudonym Captain Willets. Every day for the past four or five years, he'd put up the shows, and when R&F went on vacation, he'd put together his own best ofs (since the ones they put up were often horrid). I'd throw him a few bucks every month for his trouble. The paypal email was to Timothy Calkins Jr.
Tuesday's show was upped, but then nothing on Wednesday. Then nothing on Thursday. Then someone put 2 and 2 together when news of the Zombie came out.
We who were followers of the blog never knew Timothy Calkins Jr was aka Tim Arson Roberts aka the ECW Zombie.
Tim shared a lot of personal stuff with us over the years. His chick ran off to Puerto Rico with his little boy and he was always struggling to see him as often as he could. Not long ago he was delivering pizza just to make a lil cash. Much like this place, we became sort of a friendly "family." Yet we never knew there was this entire other side to him. To us, he was just a dude who loved Artie Lang and Ron & Fez and didn't mind pirating the show for us.
It's weird. This is the first person I "internet" knew that passed, and come to find out, I hardly knew him at all.

**Josh** · 10 Jan 2015, 06:46 PM

Shit, I remember that guy.

**mollipen** · 10 Jan 2015, 08:06 PM

Aw man. Not the ECW Zombie. He was awesome.

**YellerDog** · 13 Feb 2015, 06:59 PM

Gary Owens.

**cigsthecat** · 13 Feb 2015, 08:01 PM

Powdered Toast Man is dead. I'm old.

**arjue** · 19 Feb 2015, 10:29 PM

Harris Wittels

. Hillarious stand up, writer and inventor of the humblebrag. Certainly would have been a huge name in the years to come, so sad he died so young (30 years old).