The Most Heartbreaking Story You'll Read All Day
The Chicago Reader's Post No Bills blog has a fascinating (and, be warned, painfully sad) story on the suicide of Malachi Ritscher, a free-jazz expert and historian who was a fixture of the city's improvised music scene. Ritscher apparently set himself on fire last Friday in the middle of rush-hour traffic, leaving behind a long suicide note expressing his frustration with the war, and a long musical legacy:
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