I went and read some of his old posts on the wayback machine. I saw my site in his blogroll, my band in his link list. His posts were prescient, thoughtful, informed, they felt important. Now they're only on that archive. I don't know how the thinking they represented has changed in the years since 2008, really. We've talked and hung out with increased irregularity since, now about 1x a year. I'm afraid maybe not again, as my more recent messages have seemingly not been received.