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Do you guys remember Pat Fremgen?

He was never a member of TSG. But he was acquainted with many members of the house. I believe he was a roomate of Todd one summer. He somehow became my roomate sophomore year in the dorms in Scott Hall due to some hardly remembered circumstances. So Tall Rich, Oreo, TK, Todd and others were familiar with him.

Pat was a nice guy. Smart. I guess that’s obvious since he made it to medical school.
Pat liked to drink. A lot. More often than was healthy, he would drink a wee too much and then have “confrontations” with others. Often this would lead to fisticuffs. More often than not, Pat was on the receiving end and came home with various bruises, contusions, etc.

Pat is now Dr. Patrick Fremgen. He’s an ophthalmologist. In other words, (for Scary’s sake) he’s an eye doctor. He is partners in a Wisconsin-based Eye Clinic.

Here is a link to his website:

http://www.eyephysician.com/html/drfremgen.html

According to his bio, he is not married.

Dateline Chicago-

Brian Robinson, aka “Galva”, has been located living and working right under our noses here in Chicago.

Details are still VERY sketchy, but here is what we do know. Galva still lives in Chicago and, contrary to earlier reports, still does work for Survey Center in downtown Chicago. Galva has NOT been contacted at this point but here is his contact info thus far:

Brian Robinson

brianr@ljs.com

Survey Center
www.surveycenteronline.com

Here’s the story of how I learned that Galva wasn’t his real name. This picture is from the early Propaganda days.

One time an old lady called the house and asked for Brian Robinson. Who? I told her there was nobody there by that name. She insisted that her grandson did and then sounded kind of confused after I quite firmly and possibly even rudely told her there was absolutely nobody living there by the name of Brian Robinson. When someone asked who was on the phone I told them it was some confused old lady with a wrong number looking for her grandson Brian Robinson.

So we’re looking for everyone else, but what about those of us who still keep in touch. What are we doing? Where are we, What’s new, etc.

So I’ll start.

In 1997, I moved to Portland, Oregon with my then girlfriend, Marri-Beth. (yes, she really is a girl) I got a long-term temp job, as a production artist, with an ad agency out here, working 9-5 and being paid hourly to surf the web, play pool, play computer games, and then at 5 I would start working and stay until late, onetime working 52 hours straight. Thank jebus for hourly.

I continued to freelance with other small design firms and kept some work with a company I had worked with in Chicago. In 1999, I started Sucha Production, Inc. a small production/design firm in the spare bedroom of our apartment. In May, Marri-Beth and I bought a house. In September we got married.

In 2001, Marri-Beth quit her full-time gig as a designer and joined me at Sucha Production. She took over, so we could become a woman-owned business. Maybe one day, we’ll bid on some of those government jobs.

In October of 2001, we took a small 2 week trip to Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Met up with some friends who we met in Portland, who had moved to Zurich.

Pretty much of a blur up until the beginning of 2005, when I realized that I was a couple years behind in corporate and personal taxes. So I worked my ass off and got caught up in August. In November, we submitted our final paperwork to adopt a child. We went into the agency, once a week to go thru the books of special needs children, selecting a few, each time, and waited for a response. In February of 2006, we a phone call that we were selected by a birth mother, to adopt her child, being born in 1 to 4 weeks. We scrambled to get ready and 3 weeks later, we became the parents of Thelonious Monk B. His birth parents were both Cambodian, but he was born in the US. The birth mother requested a closed adoption.

Last week, we had our wooden floors redone in anticipation of Monk starting to crawl. We finally got back into the house, just waiting to bring in the furniture. I’m also moving our work server to a new machine, and will hopefully finish that tomorrow.

So, I’m in Portland, work for my wife, and have a son, other than that, I’m looking forward to the future.

Galva aka Brian Robinson, has seemingly fallen off the face of the earth. Where is our beloved Galva? Does anyone know? Does anyone even have a lead? I recall that the esteemed Tall Rich, Esq., had some sort of brief e-mail contact with him a few months back, but then there was radio silence from Galva’s end.

I have heard dark rumours about Galva via an unlikely source. Briefly, the somewhat insane Rita Huang, erstwhile personal assistant to the evil Lee Artoe (now deceased), the original Propaganda landlord at 1243 W. Belmont Ave., stopped by Propaganda’s office on Lincoln Ave., about a year ago.

Rita allegedly hangs out at the Chineese restaurant down the street so is in the area on occaision. I saw her coming in, and so I fled, not having the time or energy to engage her in a prolonged and annoying conversation where I could hardly decipher her through her thick Chineese accent and obvious, but mild psychological issues.

However, she relayed some stories to one of my employees. Here is a summary of what she knew about Galva. I have not been able to check the veracity of this information, but here goes.

1-Galva had left his position at the marketing research company (Survey Center?).

2-He had gone BACK to work helping manage all of Lee Artoe’s residential properties. Remember, this is years after Artoe had Galva arrested for mismanagement of money in this same capacity.

3-Galva was working part-time at night as a bar tender, but she did not remember the name of the bar.

As far as I can tell, Galva is still in Chicago, but has gone underground to avoid TSG detection.

Any ideas on how to dig up Galva? Let’s track his ass down.

In the meantime, checkout this great website from Galva’s hometown.

www.galva.com

Now that we know where Andy O’Neil is… What? You didn’t hear? I ran into him at the Didjits reunion show in Champaign. He works with at risk kids or possiblt troublemakers in a CU high school. I meant to get his contact info but in the distraction of seeing the Didjits and about 50 other faces that came out of the woodwork, I forgot to get it.

Which brings us to the point. Rich Kennedy, former Shitty guy and Texas Instruments employee, (or was it HP Hewlitt Packard?) Where the hell are you?