Haggridd, good friend and legendary filker

[Amy Z]

Constance, thank you for the news.  I'm stunned and grieving.

As unlikely as it may seem, John and I were good friends.  I had the 
pleasure of having him to stay when he toured the country last year, 
and we had a lovely dinner in San Francisco and a really nice time 
meeting in person at last. 

He wasn't the only right-winger I've ever loved, but he was one of 
the few.  He was funny, generous, gifted, and a pain in the ass, 
rather like his beloved namesake, in fact.  He could laugh at 
himself, and he could laugh at me in a way that I could laugh too.  
And he was much too young to leave this life.

During a very hard few months in my life, he sent me the entire 
Discworld oeuvre in installments, delighting vicariously in my 
discovery--he wished he could read them all for the first time 
again.  I don't know if I ever told him what a lifeline they were.  
I have a little wind-up Death I have been meaning to send him, since 
it looks like one of our favorite characters.  I hope the Death of 
the Discworld was there to greet him and say something amusing.

Kelley's been bugging me to come to TOC and I have been thinking 
about it, but I was hoping to come in on a happier announcement than 
this.

Amy Z