Monthly Archives: July 2009

Twitter @johnarobb Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

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  • Does creativity sell? There are SEO implications here as well. Watch the backlinks! http://tinyurl.com/kw5wxg RT @knealemann #
  • I love the information twitter brings to me and I want to add more local info. HI! to all the new folks I’m following today. #
  • In answer to @TheSignDepot geocaching is a game that uses GPS to find objects. Check out – http://www.cachemania.com #
  • Congrats to those realtors that have adopted Internet Tools for local markets. A lock on the MLS is not the only way to provide value. #
  • “Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is a balanced diet.” via @ted_chocolates #
  • “Dead as a doornail”, “Break the ice”, the Bard may be dead and gone but his writing lives on. #
  • In my seat at the Depeche Mode concert. Playing at the Molson Amphitheatre. I hope it’s good. #
  • Depeche Mode takes the stage. http://flic.kr/p/6HDDJv #

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Death or glory, becomes just another story.

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The big news last week was the death of Michael Jackson as well as Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon.   I was saddened by these deaths and especially surprised by MJ’s death but none of them struck me the same way the news of Martin Streek’s passing hit me.

You might not know who Martin Streek was.  He was a DJ at the renowned CFNY in Toronto.   It’s not like I wasn’t a huge Martin Streek fan but his name is synonymous CFNY weekend broadcasts and the Toronto club scene.  I don’t know how many nights I listened to his live broadcast from one club or another.  To think that he took his own life is just so absurd, true but at that same time it’s hard to believe.  Perhaps it is best paraphrase the Boomtown Rats:  ”The silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload.”

I’m currently reading Pitchfork’s Top 500 Songs of the Last 30 Years.  I find it coincidental that I’d be reliving the soundtrack of my youth via this book and hear about the loss of one of the narrators to that soundtrack.  Maybe it is time to leave my youth behind and grow up?  Or maybe death is just a sobering part of life that makes me appreciate all the wonderful people in my life.

We are not promised a tomorrow.  Hug the ones you love today.