I feel like a hologram would cheapen the experience of that final concert we had broadcast coast to coast.

He could be 38 years old forever…

Same pattern on the table, same clock on the wall. Been one seat empty 18 years, in all. Freezing slow time, away from the world.

Nobody cared about or remembered the tragically hip. They really didn’t have fans anymore, just people who found a song or two catchy. In truth they were a mediocre band at best. So it was funny when the lead singer announced he was dying that suddenly every Canadian was the hip’s number 1 fan. Everyone loved them, loved the singer they couldn’t even name a year ago. So the final tour certainly worked for them. Now we’re back to not a single person listening to their crappy music or talking about the guy, until some meaningless news like this hits