I received this heart warming letter from a Xavier student a week or so ago. She received $500 from Brian's memorial fund and can now stay at Xavier for another semester. Brian always wanted to start a fund to help Xavier's students who are in need. Just think of the good that will come from this!
I know Brian is proud.
1/12/09
Dear Mr. McCormick:
I want to sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for the opportunity to remain at Xavier University for the last semester of my junior year. Without receiving the $500 from your brother’s fund, I would have been financially unable to attend school this semester. As a student of divorced parents with low income (below the poverty line), I am forever grateful for the money received from the fund. Thank you, again, forever, and always know that words cannot describe how thankful I am.
Sincerely,
(Student’s name and majors)
Please remember the 3/5 fundraiser from 6-8 at Dana's or contact Xavier at 745-3314 to give.
1.30.2009
Brian and his creative use of voice mails
Brian would occasionally leave me voice mails at my work late at night. He would never say anything and would only leave creative messages. They were always unique and funny.
One time he left me Darth Vader’s “Imperial March.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqTi0ZFDawY
He also left Mike Tyson’s “I will eat your children” interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l0ZyKmeNE
Finally, the best one was Adam Sandler’s “the longest pee.”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2780345097655180361
Somehow, Brian got a hold of the audio before Sandler’s record was released. I laughed so hard I cried! I, of course, sent it to a select few of my friend’s voice mail boxes and within a few seconds the entire company was also laughing.
God, could he make us laugh!
One time he left me Darth Vader’s “Imperial March.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqTi0ZFDawY
He also left Mike Tyson’s “I will eat your children” interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4l0ZyKmeNE
Finally, the best one was Adam Sandler’s “the longest pee.”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2780345097655180361
Somehow, Brian got a hold of the audio before Sandler’s record was released. I laughed so hard I cried! I, of course, sent it to a select few of my friend’s voice mail boxes and within a few seconds the entire company was also laughing.
God, could he make us laugh!
1.27.2009
"I don't high-five."
I just had a moment that made me think of Brian and of course, start laughing. The guy sitting next to me at work just tried to high-five me. The reason does not matter but his arm was raised and he held it there, waiting for me to smack his hand with mine. However, I just looked at him and said “I don’t high-five” and went back to work on my computer. The look on the guys’ face was absolutely priceless. This might seem mean or even juvenile, and I would have to agree, but I know Brian is somewhere laughing.
Growing up, I always thought high-fiving was a normal thing for people to do to celebrate a victory, no matter how minor or insignificant. Brian was anything but normal so whenever I went to give him a high-five he would just say “I don’t high-five” and I’d be stuck with my arm raised in the air, looking like an idiot giving a Nazi salute. I always though this was hilarious and it made Brian one of those people that you’ll always remember. So if you are ever so inclined, whenever someone raises their hands in celebration and expects something from you in return, you can smile and tell them “I don’t high-five,” in honor of Brian.
Growing up, I always thought high-fiving was a normal thing for people to do to celebrate a victory, no matter how minor or insignificant. Brian was anything but normal so whenever I went to give him a high-five he would just say “I don’t high-five” and I’d be stuck with my arm raised in the air, looking like an idiot giving a Nazi salute. I always though this was hilarious and it made Brian one of those people that you’ll always remember. So if you are ever so inclined, whenever someone raises their hands in celebration and expects something from you in return, you can smile and tell them “I don’t high-five,” in honor of Brian.
1.22.2009
Brian & Dick Vitale
Here is a completely random, but priceless picture of us with basketball commentator and all-around loud-mouth Dick Vitale at a basketball event at US Bank Arena sometime around '98 or'99 - I want to say it was the Harlem Globetrotters. I was a marketing coordinator for US Bank and had access to all the events at the arena so we drank and ate at the private executive USB box and then travelled down closer to the action.
He was the best-wing man you could ask for.
1.16.2009
Brian and the cold weather
Today was -10 degrees. I'm reminded of a time several years ago when the weather was equally bad in Cincinnati. Early that morning, Brian's brother Matt was brushing his teeth and had one eye on the television and had been thinking that it would be a rough day to be outside when he noticed scrawling across the bottom of the page a series of businesses that were to be closed due to the weather.
Suddenly he saw the name of Brian's company (O'Brien-Sexton Associates) as one of the affected businesses! Brian had called the local radio and television stations and reported that his company would be closed. Not being bothered by the fact that he was the only employee of the company in Ohio, Kentucky, as well as Indiana, he also added that "the third shift will be required to report." His brother and some of Brian's customers saw this announcement and they just shook their heads and knew who had done the deed.
Brian told Matt that the station had asked how many employees OBS had (they had never heard of them) and Brian answered that there were "close to 100!"
I've sent my memory of this event to several people today and have heard back from locals as well as people in Chicago, Iowa, and even Hong Kong that they enjoyed the story immensely and each of them, without knowing of anyone else's responses, said that they miss him. As do we. As do we! God Brian, you could be funny!
Brian's dad
Suddenly he saw the name of Brian's company (O'Brien-Sexton Associates) as one of the affected businesses! Brian had called the local radio and television stations and reported that his company would be closed. Not being bothered by the fact that he was the only employee of the company in Ohio, Kentucky, as well as Indiana, he also added that "the third shift will be required to report." His brother and some of Brian's customers saw this announcement and they just shook their heads and knew who had done the deed.
Brian told Matt that the station had asked how many employees OBS had (they had never heard of them) and Brian answered that there were "close to 100!"
I've sent my memory of this event to several people today and have heard back from locals as well as people in Chicago, Iowa, and even Hong Kong that they enjoyed the story immensely and each of them, without knowing of anyone else's responses, said that they miss him. As do we. As do we! God Brian, you could be funny!
Brian's dad
1.05.2009
A blurb from Brian's "myspace" page
Brian called himself "Dargin" on myspace.com. It was his middle name (it is also mine's, Patrick's and Caroline's). It was also our Mom's maiden name. He also said he was 67 years old and 2'1. I thought most of us would enjoy some of Brian's "blarney" one more time:
"I talk too much - but I have one hell of a good time. Life is very - very good. I am hard to keep up with and am loyal to the end unless I get f----- over - then like my friend Mike Dexter said, "No thanks, No time" I may forgive but I never forget. I love being home but I never am. I wake up at home and think I am at a hotel sometimes. I Believe things happen for a reason, make yourself happy and things will fall into place, Karma is real and it will kick you in the ass when it wants to - real bad. I know a little about lots of things yet I know lots about a little amount of things - but am always looking for my next inspiration or adventure. And never, ever throw a champagne late night party with 100 bottles of cheap champagne at 3am. Trust me it took us four parties to figure it out.
Who I'd like to meet: I Would like to meet Bret Easton Ellis, Johnny Depp, Willie Nelson, Colonel Sanders, The Swedish Chef, any surviving Oompah Loompah's, Ralphie and Flick from a Christmas story, Spalding Smails. I like people with passports, the ability to read, a sense of adventure, opinions (even if and especially if they differ from mine) bonus points to fearless eaters or of people eager to try new and different things. People I would like to see fall down and get a severe limp; mimes, clowns (they scare the shit out of me), ignorant people that are the only ones who don't realize they are idiots yet that is what makes them ignorant anyway... Ugly tourists wearing hip packs and black socks shouting "How much is this in real money" while wearing sandals and flip up sunglasses. People who need to "Get it" Chatty people on long flights and whomever makes sure I sit next to crying babies or 500lb sweaty people. Any girl that gets their hair braided in Cancun with beads bc "The locals do it" yet I have never seen a local in any foreign country that I have been to have braids with beads... Bam Margera and he knows why..."
Folks, he actually thought, wrote, and believed all of the above! Again, only Brian.
"I talk too much - but I have one hell of a good time. Life is very - very good. I am hard to keep up with and am loyal to the end unless I get f----- over - then like my friend Mike Dexter said, "No thanks, No time" I may forgive but I never forget. I love being home but I never am. I wake up at home and think I am at a hotel sometimes. I Believe things happen for a reason, make yourself happy and things will fall into place, Karma is real and it will kick you in the ass when it wants to - real bad. I know a little about lots of things yet I know lots about a little amount of things - but am always looking for my next inspiration or adventure. And never, ever throw a champagne late night party with 100 bottles of cheap champagne at 3am. Trust me it took us four parties to figure it out.
Who I'd like to meet: I Would like to meet Bret Easton Ellis, Johnny Depp, Willie Nelson, Colonel Sanders, The Swedish Chef, any surviving Oompah Loompah's, Ralphie and Flick from a Christmas story, Spalding Smails. I like people with passports, the ability to read, a sense of adventure, opinions (even if and especially if they differ from mine) bonus points to fearless eaters or of people eager to try new and different things. People I would like to see fall down and get a severe limp; mimes, clowns (they scare the shit out of me), ignorant people that are the only ones who don't realize they are idiots yet that is what makes them ignorant anyway... Ugly tourists wearing hip packs and black socks shouting "How much is this in real money" while wearing sandals and flip up sunglasses. People who need to "Get it" Chatty people on long flights and whomever makes sure I sit next to crying babies or 500lb sweaty people. Any girl that gets their hair braided in Cancun with beads bc "The locals do it" yet I have never seen a local in any foreign country that I have been to have braids with beads... Bam Margera and he knows why..."
Folks, he actually thought, wrote, and believed all of the above! Again, only Brian.
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