From Dwight comes news that endurance athlete Jure Robic has died.
He was the completely insane insanely dedicated guy I mentioned earlier this year. Sad, but I can’t really say I’m surprised…
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Obituary Watch: Endurance Athlete Jure Robic, RIP
Thursday, September 30th, 2010The Funeral Home’s Page on Joe Domenici
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010You might spot a few familiar faces among the photos there. And those who knew Joe may want to sign the condolences book if they’re so inclined.
Sad News: Joe Domenici, RIP
Friday, September 3rd, 2010A poster on one of my Armadillocon photo threads said that Joe Domenici, former co-owner of Houston specialty SF bookstore Future Visions, and more recently a thriller writer living here in Austin (his first novel, Bringing Back the Dead, came out in 2008) died on Tuesday. Sadly, the news has been confirmed in the Statesman obituaries. I had known he was hospitalized with pneumonia during Armadillocon (Mike had gotten a call full of hacking coughs apologizing for not being at the con), and I knew he smoked, but I hadn’t heard he had died until just now.
This is sad news, as Joe was a swell guy, always ready to talk about authors and books, and I bought my share of books from him back in the Future Visions days. I had seen him just a couple of weeks ago at the Recycled Reads book sale, and had bought more books off him when he had a book sale in his own apartment (just across Lamar from the main Half Price Books) a few months ago.
According to the Statesman he was only 49.
RIP, Joe.