Monday, June 26, 2006
Rest In Peace My Friend
Today we shed tears for a friend and stranger. An odd thing, losing people online, yet no less poignant. Sometimes we know them better than family, and of course we choose to know them.
Rob Smith, Acidman, has died, leaving a gaping hole in the blogosphere and our hearts, and our wish one day to meet him in person unfulfilled.
It’s not entirely unexpected. It’s clear he’d been in rough shape. I’d fervently hoped for more time and much happiness to fill it. Alas, it was not to be, as it so often isn’t.
Rob was a major mover in getting my original blog noticed as well and quickly as it did, for which I will always be grateful. His writing could be, often as not was, brilliant. He dared to be abrasive, even if all that meant was honest. His heart of gold shone through any amount of acid talk. I will forever have the imagined memory of visiting him with our kids, of him playing with them, of them being utterly taken with him. I fully expect that’s how it would have been, because that’s Rob.