The weblink leads to some sort of gaming site, and finding it tonight reminds me to check those on my own blogroll who have left the building. I'm pretty sure I don't need to send my handful of readers to the equivalent of:
Ted Burge is famous for many of his insights but this one remains:
Still and all, it must have been a wrenching decision to let go.
Go with God, Lex.
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I only read his blog on occasion, did not know him personally,but miss him nonetheless
RIP.
Thomas
Like many, I enjoyed his writing and he was a good person to have a beer with at the end of the day. He was far more complex than the usual. As you say, RIP.
I don't remember how I happened on to his blog, but I followed Lex from the beginning. Made my day to read his posts. I occasionally even got up the nerve to comment and no matter how poorly I commented he always responded with wit & wisdom. Thankfully I printed out Rhythms right after he finished it. To a man every guy I've shared it with (though none of them knew of Lex before hand) has become a fast fan. Sure hope the entire blog is published some day.
I don't recall how I found his blog either to be honest. Once I did, it took about 15 minutes to figure out this guy lived about a mile south of me and liked my favorite pub and we both worked on the same naval air station, admittedly, he worked on the main base for the 3 star and I worked out at one of the Outlying Fields down in Imperial Beach. We used to pass each other on I-5 on the way to work in the morning. You would have liked him. He was exactly what you would expect from his blog.
I'd be interested in a copy of your copy of Rhythms if you be kind enough to send it to me.
As I understand it, the blog itself is lost because nobody had the password to access the complete sql files which Lex used to wrestle with just about every month. Me? I leave well enough alone and wouldn't know an sql file if it bit me.
We went out to dinner with 2 authors I just happen to be related to and my intent with that was to convince Lex how easy it was to publish. They spent the next 3 hours talking about their honeymoon in France. It was kind of funny.
I would be more than happy to send you a hard copy, just email your address to me at: cowcamp4bj@gmail.com
Not sure if you are aware of it but there is a blog
https://thelexicans.wordpress.com that has a lot of his posts on it.
Thanks. I left San Diego a few months before the crash and housesat for my sister while she was out of town for a year in Norway. As I came out my back door one day my neighbor was sitting in a chair in his backyard grading some papers and asked me if I was the Curtis in metroparkcentralis and I said, 'why yes, yes i am.' Turns out he was yet another one of Lex's readers and saw some of my comments and put us together.
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