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Blogger extraordinaire Jon Swift has passed away

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 22:45:20 PM EST


If you've had the pleasure of being both amused and confused by the blogger known as Jon Swift (real name: Al Weisel), that was by design. His tongue was always so tightly plugged in his cheek that you sometimes wondered if he was really a "reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues."

Al's mother let his readers know about his untimely passing by posting a comment on his blog.

I don't know how else to tell you all who love this blog. I am Jon Swift's Mom and I guess I'm going to OUT him. He was Al Weisel, my beloved son. Al was on his way to his father's funeral in VA when he suffered 2 aortic aneurysms, a leaky aortic valve and an aortic artery dissection from his heart to his pelvis. He had 3 major surgeries within 24 hours and sometime during those surgeries also suffered a severe stroke. We, his 2 sisters, his brother, his partner and his best friend since he was 9 years old were with him as he took his last breath. We have all lost a shining start who warmed our hearts, tormented us and made us laugh as he giggled at our pulling something over on us. He passed away on February 27, 2010. My beloved child will live on in so many hearts. I miss him more than I can say. If you are on Facebook, go to organizations and join "Friends of Al Weisel, Unite!" It will give you just a taste of how special he was. Farewell, Jon (Al)

One of my favorite columns of his, "Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging," is so hilarious when I went to the page to get the link, I started reading and laughing as hard I did when I read it for the first time.

Obama had cocaine-fueled gay sex in the back of a limousine with a not-very-attractive disabled man with a criminal background

While the mainstream media requires their sources practically to be saints before they will even think of publishing sensational allegations, the prestigious World Net Daily is under no such constraints. It reported on Larry Sinclair's allegations that he did cocaine and had sex with Barack Obama in the back of a limousine without making him jump through all the hoops a mainstream media organization or even the National Enquirer would have required. Although some people didn't find Larry Sinclair's story credible considering his criminal record and the fact that he failed a lie detector test, WND decided to publish the allegations and let the people decide. Although many in the conservative blogoshpere also doubted Sinclair's veracity, some, like Rusty Shackleford at Jawa Report, decided the gloves were off after the National Enquirer ran a salacious report on Sarah Palin, and reluctantly decided to link to the story anyway, because, as he explains, "this kind of slime is now in play." Mick Stockinger at Uncorrelated agreed that "it's only fair" to bring it up and Rude News called it "tit for tat." That oughta teach the National Enquirer.

He will definitely be missed. You can pay Al a tribute by enjoying his Best of Jon Swift and spread the word about this wonderful blogger.
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A very VERY sad loss indeed
It was so very generous and kind of his mother to set aside her own grief long enough to let Jon/Al's readers know of his passing. Incredible grace to make that gesture... and much appreciated.

Here is the link to the memorial Facebook page she mentioned, as well as others. I think the actual FB is closed, however.

http://www.facebook.com/search...


I loved his blog
I will miss him, and I'm grateful to his mom for sharing with us what happened.  I wouldn't blame her at all if she has his blog entries published.  He was amazing.

Blogging my novel: http://www.authonomy.com/ViewB...

Damn.
We wondered where He'd gone. Such a loss.

I had a premoniton
I knew he hadn't posted in awhile but just this past weekend I clicked his link in my blogroll just to see and still nothing.  It was at that point that I thought something really bad had happened.

Then BlueGal emailed me yesterday with the news.  Despite the premonition I'm still shocked at the reality.  He was quite a guy and his "best of" year-end blog roundups were an amazing feat.


Al was a friend and colleague
Everyone should own a copy of his book Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of the Makign of 'Rebel Without a Cause' (co-authored by Lawrencnc Frascella) In it Al establishes the fact that James Dean was gay PERIOD in lavishly entertaining detail.

Many years ago Al helped me out when I got into a war of words with Davod Cronenberg over his de-gayed film version of Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Much fun.

Al was a very singular and special guy. And he was only 46.

"If your friends only last through lunch. . ." -- Noel Coward


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