Look I don't care about Michael Jackson, or whoever else famous died recently, but a string of deaths in the last while have been on my mind.

The elevator worker, Andrew Hill, that fell down the elevator shaft at work a couple weeks back, a gruesome way to go (he didn't land intact), leaving behind a family of 5.

More recently I lost a fellow security guard friend at my work, to Diabetes, he was a little over 50, a former biker affiliate, devoted tae kwan do black belt pupil and had one of the biggest hearts you could ever know. He was such a character, and always encouraged me to apply in-house when i was making crap money as a contract guard.


And reading up on Martin Streek, a local radio personality who has been around on the radio almost as long as I've been alive, took his life July 6th, shortly after being unceremoniously fired in fucking downsizing.

the wiki article is alright, I liked this mention:

Before a second encore at a Broken Social Scene show in Toronto on July 11, 2009, Brendan Canning, BSS co-founder, announced that, "This one is for a good friend of mine who recently took his life in the name of rock and roll!" He was referring to Martin Streek.




rest in peace guys, shit like this, I just don't know what to say