My pals over at Resonator Magazine have lost a member of their extended family and I’ve lost an internet acquaintance.  Dr. Shlomo Zelig, someone with whom I’ve always shared similar taste in music and culture, passed away — the apparent victim of poisoning — while live-tweeting (yergh) the live show for Salem, a band Dr. Zelig mentioned to me a while back.  His twitter feed on the subject (linked on the Resonator page) is amateurish, rank with doe-eyed fanboy cliches and a sort of starry optimism for his never-to-be-realized music journo potential, but nevertheless remains a tragic monument to a man who died doing what he loved.   It’s also, in my opinion, an interesting example of how new and social media can be used to capture the mood and feel of something like a live show of an ultimately obscure, underexposed band like Salem.

It’s hard to become truly emotionally affected by the death of a “friend” I’ve only known on the internet; the cessation of what he might have said is merely an artifact in all the noise.  Still, pour out a glass of whatever you drink and turn up the bass for Shlomo.