I think Patrick “Pat” “P.T.” “Eric Filler” (etc.) Dilloway is dead.
This will come as a surprise to anyone with a small inkling at how exasperated he made me for a lot of the time I knew him in this blogging community. Don’t worry if you had no clue about that. If he’s dead, it literally can’t possibly matter anymore.
I met Pat during the 2012 Blogging A to Z Challenge. I chose his blog among the listed entrants because he was writing about a superhero book he’d written. For several years afterward I was a regular visitor to his blog, and my biggest blogging claim to fame is arguably successfully participating in his original box office challenge.
As the opening line suggests, Pat used a lot of aliases, and probably most of the people who knew him online or through his many books had no idea.
He went radio silent before the new year. His last post on his blog was at the start of December. There are bloggers who take breaks, but usually they’ll post about it. A lot of bloggers became considerably more sporadic over recent years, and many outright walked away. I didn’t expect Pat to do anything like that, or certainly not anytime soon. I thought he was just slowing down.
A post I saw when I tried to look up any possible activity elsewhere, on a Wordpress blog Pat maintained for Eric Filler, suggests he was battling cancer last year. He never mentioned this on his Dilloway blog.
All considered, if you’re dead, rest in peace, dude.
Well, I remember his caustic style in the comments section here, etc. I'm sorry for his family...
ReplyDeleteYeah, his last legacies with me were his comments. He did stop that a while back, to his credit.
DeleteI found his obituary (or at least the page for his obituary to go) online. He passed January 19, 2025 according to the date there. He lived in Saginaw, Michigan. You can google Patrick Floyd Dilloway in Michigan and you'll see it.
ReplyDeleteKind of sad he didn’t get an actual obituary.
DeleteI do remember Pat. Like most things I don't recall much detail, but I do remember that name popping up every April for the Challenge. Sorry to hear this, but then I can't really say I knew him. I often wonder about bloggers who just fade away and disappear. I've been kind of doing the same, but not totally yet.
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Him specifically I had to figure when he stopped posting there had to have been a good reason. It’s just so strange to think of him as having passed away.
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