Rob Smith Has Passed
This likely isn’t breaking news for anybody that reads a few blogs on my blogroll, but I’ll say something anyway. Rob Smith was also known as Acidman and I had been reading him for a few years.
His daughter, Sam, posted about his death on Rob’s own blog:
This is Sam. Rob has passed away. They found him at 2:00 this morning slumped over on the couch. He did not shoot himself and no pills or alcohol were found in the house. When I find out anything else I’ll let you know. Out of respect for my family please do not leave nasty comments.
I must say I wasn’t really surprised. You could see it in his posts over the final two weeks that something was wrong. His final post actually contained a malformed sentence and a misspelled word — something I hadn’t ever seen this guy do before.
Not even when he was boozing heavily.
Maybe it was the bottle that finally did him in, maybe it wasn’t. Franky, I don’t really care.
If I were a good writer I might feel inclined to pen a nice eulogy here for the guy. I’m not really capable of that — and in the end that would be a pointless act.
One only needs to go to his website and read his writings over the years to see what happened. Sure, it will take some time to do, but you’ll be entertained while reading it. I know I always was.
I hope that Rob’s writings survive, in some form or another, for years to come. They are essentially well penned diary entries of a common man with common problems in the final years of his life.
They serve as a good reminder what not to do at times. That, and to appreciate the simple things in life like good food, good company, and dogs that like to slobber all over your face.