The Skyking Flies Still

"I wasn't really planning on landing." -- The Skyking

People disappear from the internet. Blogs are abandoned, forums fade and last posts are made. You might wonder what happened to them, but you'll never know.
That isn't the case for Richard Russell's shortlived blog. Presumably created at the bayonet point of a grader's pencil, he only made a few posts and then dropped off without ceremony.
Eight months after his last post and one year ago (again) today, the Skyking grabbed for the brass ring which had been held just out of reach for his entire life, and this postmodern Icarus did something beautiful for himself.

But from that selfish heroism we are all left richer. There is no need to mourn him because his flight shall last forever.

"It evens out in the end." -- Richard Russell
"Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein there is nothing contemptible. Now thou perishest by thy calling ..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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