Bob Guskind, Rest in Peace

I made a strange discovery today when I was browsing through Gothamist and read a story about the death of Bob Guskind, the editorial engine behind the Gowanus Lounge blog. For those of you who’ve never seen the blog, it seemed to function as a clearinghouse of goings on in the neighborhoods around my apartment–Park Slope, Carroll Gardrens, Gowanus, Prospect Heights, Bed-Stuy, etc. Guskind had a bizarrely encyclopedic knowledge of the shitty lux cons that have been springing up all over BK the last couple of years, and he seemed to take a special delight in taking asshole developers to task for destroying the fabric of neighborhoods for a quick buck. The content of Gowanus Lounge represented the maturation of what a blog could be–providing local, unique content as mass media outlets cut their newshole, reportage budgets and dedication to covering anything other than celebrity sightings. Anyway, the blogosphere, or at least the corners of it that I frequent, seem much emptier now. Rest in peace Mr. Guskind.