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Toronto, 2005.04.16
Today I got word that one of my best friends from my high school days drowned in a diving mishap. We drifted apart after high school, but it is a real shock none the less. He used to be the ringleader in our expeditions around the province when we were young landscapers and bottle depot clerks.

RIP, Jeremy.

rand()m quote

In the wake of 9/11, we [in America] have made the decision as a society that we can never again create something in which we can take pride, for fear that someone will destroy it. Moreover, we must suppress any trace of individualism, lest someone have the desire to rise above the bland sameness that protects us. I have, alas, no idea how to recapture our courage.

—Anonymous post to boingboing.net, 2009