I received Bubba Ho-Tep on DVD a few days ago. I really love this movie. Hits it all on the right notes.
I received word today that Larry Capune died on Tuesday the 25th. I knew he was not doing well after his relapse of cancer, and I had mentioned that fact on a few previous posts. Still, he deserves a greater remembrance than will be delivered by most, but the true test of what a man does with his life is what is done and accomplished, not with what is said after the fact. But even so, Larry devoted so much of his life to others, that he will have this little bit of remembrance, if nothing else.
Larry, was a lifeguard in Newport Beach. He set several world records for paddleboarding, having several times done the east coast, and the west coast, and at least once from Chicago to Corpus Christi Texas, via the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.
He also showed movies at Balboa, every Thursday for a few short weeks every summer, for the past 33 years. It will be a vast change for me not to have something to do, to participate in, to help share with every week. Despite having helped him for 10 years, form 1993 to 2003, from the time I was Rear Commodore of BIYC to the day before I turned 25, I don’t think I haver a picture of him to show. That’s ok. I know the important things, and stories become so much larger than life with little evidence to constrain them. But for me, in hearing Larry’s stories first hand, they were that much larger to begin with. My only real regret here, is not having seen nor read the manuscript he wrote about his travels. I know he gave it out to be edited down to an actual salable form, and I hope it comes out some day.
Here’s to you Larry, to smooth sailing, calm breezes and soft swells.
