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January 4, 2008

This Is Probably Only the First Stage of Grief

Believe it or not, one of the things I will miss most is not being able to blog any longer.

Major Andrew Olmsted, USA, my dead friend

Dude, check it out! Your last post is getting linked everywhere!

Posted by Jim Henley @ 8:40 pm, Filed under: Main

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8 Responses to “This Is Probably Only the First Stage of Grief”

  1. Comment by Thoreau —
    January 4, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

    Well, if a blogger must go then I guess it’s best to go out in a flurry of links.

    Being part Irish, there’s a branch of my family that still does the wake tradition. Better to have a few LOLZ in tribute to the departed, you know?

    So here’s a LOLCAT for G’Kar, as he was often known in the blogosphere.

  2. Comment by Mona —
    January 4, 2008 @ 9:22 pm

    I’m Irish female and so should be (and somewhat have been) keening, but I like, and think Andrew would like, this:

    Dude, check it out! Your last post is getting linked everywhere!

  3. Comment by Brett Peters —
    January 5, 2008 @ 12:00 am

    I think he would have liked it, too.

  4. Comment by Glaivester —
    January 5, 2008 @ 12:18 am

    Here’s the official news release link.

  5. Comment by Gary Farber —
    January 5, 2008 @ 3:11 pm

    Belatedly, I’m absolutely — can I say “dead sure”? — sure that Andy would have laughed and liked it, Jim.

  6. Comment by Gary Farber —
    January 5, 2008 @ 3:12 pm

    I wrote more along those lines on the ObWi thread.

    I still can’t get it togther to post further at my own blog. But I’ve said a lot more at ObWi, where Andrew and I interesected mostly ever since I introduced him to the site and Hilzoy.

  7. Comment by borehole —
    January 5, 2008 @ 5:22 pm

    That really is a great obit, Jim. It won’t reach its full potential until some dipstick who never heard of Andrew dubs it offensive, but I have faith in the internet.

    Thanks for the laugh. Now I gotta get back to punching thefridge and hating myself for not doing more to stop this God damned fucking piece of shit war.

    And by “More,” I mean “anything.”

  8. Comment by LizardBreath —
    January 5, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

    This cracked me up, in a good way. Thanks.

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