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Darryl Pearce was a regular commenter here. He made made several nominations during the Koufax Awards, and never for his own blog, but for talkleft, horseass, Jesus' General, Crooks an Liars, Daily Kos, Orcinus (expert and single-issue), BagNewsNotes (best post, wider recognition), echidne of the snakes.

He contributed $$ to MB's campaign for the Maine Legislature, and cheered her on with a chorus of "hip,hip Hurrah!, hip,hip Hurrah!, hip,hip Hurrah! when she posted the Election Day post-mortem, after a loss of 25 votes.

He contributed $$ to our fundraising in our 4th year of doing the Koufax Awards, pushing us over $1,000 in a thread which invented disenvowelment for a Wampum troll.

He left us this comment:

The way many republicans and their ilk spit out the words "liberal" and "democrat" as epithets, curses, or worse--well, there seems to be a group of people with an inherent, emotional need to bully others.

--ventura county, ca

Finally, he was a PoA, like Dwight, MaryBeth and I, and other Wampum readers, frequent, occasional, and former, a parent of a child on the Autism Spectrum, a parent who's been shot-over, and when I wrote A note in a bottle, wrote back as a parent and friend.

My own highly-functioning autistic (Asperger's?) son wandered off when we visited relatives at Big Bear Mtn in California... in November for Thanksgiving.

We found him in the market about a 1/2-mile from the cabin... eating popcorn.

He is now 18 and we're trying to get him into an ASL class at college. And we're trying to get him to pass the written portion of the California driving exam....

...hang in there!

--ventura county, ca

The photo was taken a few days before his death. His family requests that those who'd like to give something to honor his life could donate to support Raise the Sails for the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain.

The last entry of Fuming Mucker: A curmudgeon amongst tyrannies, conspiracies, thieveries and charities is here. Darryl's passing is noted in several other blogs he contributed to over the years, Duncan Black's, Avedon Carol's, and others.