Local Scenester/Journo Rick Smith Is Gone…

When the hell is it gonna end? It seems like this week’s been a nonstop roll of bad-bad-bad news for Houston’s music scene, and all of that pales in comparison to the news broken on the Free Press Houston blog yesterday evening that local music scenester/journo Rick Smith has passed away unexpectedly. Damn, man. I haven’t talked to Rick in a really long time, unfortunately, but he was always the nicest, friendliest guy, and he gave me some much-needed encouragement with this little site back when it was, um, even littler. Rest in peace, Rick.

Fuck. What a shitty end to a never-ending shitty week. I need to go home & watch some escapist crap on TV…