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Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

One of the great voices of the shared Internet is gone: blogger Steve Gilliard (who blogged here at newcritics before his illness) died today at age 41.
I didn’t know Steve very well personally, but he was a brother in the virtual sense. His voice was entirely his - a true icon ... Continue reading »

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estiv
2 years ago

I've been wandering the web for the last ten minutes looking for references. I feel like a cat that's looking all over the house trying to find the other cat who didn't come back from the vet. I left a longer response over at Dailykos so I'll leave it at that, except to say that this is sad news indeed.

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Dan Leo
2 years ago

Amen, Tom and Estiv.

Steve's voice just pulsed with life.

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Tom Watson
2 years ago

Yeah, he did pulse with life - and glorious opinion (not that I agreed all the time, either - but that was part of the fun). I'm keeping his name as one of the authors here. 'Tis an honor.

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Manny Maher
2 years ago

What a tragedy. I didn't know him, but Steve's intelligent voice was one of the reasons I wanted to join the conversation on newcritics.
We'll remember him.

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