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I heard this directly from BBC News this morning. John was on holiday with his wife in Peru and suffered a massive heart attack.

John Peel was a legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ who, over the last 40 years, introduced entire genres of music to the listening public in the UK and around the world. Some Peel Sessions continue to be the best introduction to new music, even 25 years after their release.

Note to everyone with Moderator access: Starting today: All bad moderation will be meta moderated as unfair. This includes any and all comments I see moderated as "Overrated" or "Redundant".

If you disagree with something I post, please respond with your own post. Moderating down a post because you don't like its contents is a cheap shot -- worse than posting as AC.

from my journal:

June 16, 2004 - on the subway to Bethesda

sean campbell died sunday night. he went to uuca. can't believe I looked right at him the same day. he was hit by a bus in Mt. Vernon at around 8pm.

he was 5 weeks away from his seventh birthday.

I feel like I've been punched in the stomach.

I have no idea what to say to the kids.

Yesterday, Christine and I went to the MIT List Visual Arts Center to see Son et Lumiere . Specifically, I wanted to see Listening Post by Mark Hensen and Ben Rubin. The listening post consists of 231 mini text display screens and a multi-channel voice synthesizer. The experience? Incredible. My

Late in the evening of Thursday, September 18, 2003, while Hurricane Isabel was ripping through Northern Virginia, the Fairfax County Water Authority water treatment plants lost power. All of them. Water reserves ran dry relatively soon after that, and I understand that there is literally a giant sucking sound that takes place when the system is underpressured. Air is sucked back through faucets and the like, and so bacteria can get into the piping system and *could* make its way back to s

man, I miss playing indie rock. in boston.

there are a lot of good bands coming out of there now, and it's exciting to see that the scene hasn't lost any of its lustre.

Memorial Gathering for Kristi Forbes (Lady Christabel Heslington)
Hemlock Gorge Park, Newton/Needham MA
May 31, 2003
3-7 PM

This appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday 20 May 2003.

Memorial Gathering for Kristi Forbes
(Lady Christabel Heslington)
May 31, 2003
3-7 PM
Boston Area

This can't possibly be good. How did this ever slip under the radar?

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 11

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2003

"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

I finally spoke to Kristi's husband George on Friday. He sobbed over the phone, swept up in survivor guilt, pain medication and lack of sleep. I found my self giving what comfort I could over a cell phone 3000 miles away. There are so many people affected by Kristi's death. The pattern of reactions are strange ... those closest to Kristi are devastated and express those emotions openly. Others on the periphery are also openly expressing emotions. However those of us in the midd