Al Weisel, (aka Jon Swift), 1963 - 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 08:37AM Al Weisel blogged as Jon Swift. He was a regular read for me, and his dry faux-conservative persona was flawlessly done. He hadn’t posted in almost a year, but I thought he just sort of went off the grid as bloggers sometimes do. He was co-originator of Blogroll Amnesty Day, where bloggers “link down” to less trafficked sites. It was (and is) a great concept and showed a generosity towards other bloggers that I, as a resident of a lightly traveled section of this territory, really appreciated.
Here is a great example of his blogging style, and here is his last Blogroll Amnesty Day. And it’s hard to miss the unintentional foreshadowing in his final post.
More:
- Tom Watson
- skippy the bush kangaroo
- D. Aristophanes
- Diary of a Heretic
- blue girl
- Melissa McEwan
- jurassicpork
- James Wolcott
- John Cole
I didn’t know him and don’t have any personal stories to relate. I just knew him as a witty, original and perceptive voice on the Internet. He will be missed. My deepest condolences to his survivors.
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