.......But He's Not Forgotten
TheBestThereEverWas
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The tributes for the late, great Steve Gilliard continue to pore in.
Ours, with links to others, is here.
There has been a lot of talk in the Bloggodome about the shortcomings of a certain piece on the life and times ofMr. Gilliard in this week's NY Times Magazine.
Thus, we thought we should point you towards a far superior MSM-associated piece.
And it comes from (not-so-Jersey)James Wolcott:
"Of all the losses in 2007, Steve's death is the one that suspends lowest from the ceiling, pressing downward force. Other deaths were saddening--Norman Mailer's, Hilly Kristal's, Elizabeth Hardwick's--but they led full, productive lives and left complete inheritances of accomplishment. Steve was still a mind in motion, a power transmitter still extending his reach, and to be deprived of his voice is a neverending series of what ifs and what might have beens and what would Steve have said about this? A sense of incompletion will always nag, in part because no one has been able to fill the role he left behind and probably no one ever will--he left so much behind, but he took so much more with him."
All killer/No filler (or flimsy flackhackery)
Good stuff, no?
.
TheBestThereEverWas
NewsBlogVille
The tributes for the late, great Steve Gilliard continue to pore in.
Ours, with links to others, is here.
There has been a lot of talk in the Bloggodome about the shortcomings of a certain piece on the life and times ofMr. Gilliard in this week's NY Times Magazine.
Thus, we thought we should point you towards a far superior MSM-associated piece.
And it comes from (not-so-Jersey)James Wolcott:
"Of all the losses in 2007, Steve's death is the one that suspends lowest from the ceiling, pressing downward force. Other deaths were saddening--Norman Mailer's, Hilly Kristal's, Elizabeth Hardwick's--but they led full, productive lives and left complete inheritances of accomplishment. Steve was still a mind in motion, a power transmitter still extending his reach, and to be deprived of his voice is a neverending series of what ifs and what might have beens and what would Steve have said about this? A sense of incompletion will always nag, in part because no one has been able to fill the role he left behind and probably no one ever will--he left so much behind, but he took so much more with him."
All killer/No filler (or flimsy flackhackery)
Good stuff, no?
.
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