You asked for it, so here it is. Today marks exactly one year since Ryan Joseph "Sharky" Sharkler died from a car crash, and as his best friend I am taking it upon us to have a blog party as a tribute. Wierd, you say? Well, as most of you will remember Sharky was the life of every party, and I'm pretty sure if there is a heaven he's up there now getting drunk and taking a piss from there to make it rain on us. Alternatively, he could be in hell, and as everyone knows that's where you have the REAL fun.

Anyway, I say we have a short moment to mourn with this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTIfvc_HI4

and now we get down to the real business of rocking the cyber walls of tv.com with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewm5l-i-yw&feature=related Yes, I'm on a Velvet Revolver kick.

Unfortunately, given that I'm meant to be studying right now I won't be on here a lot, but I'll come and go. I plan to keep the party up for at least two days, refreshing it maybe tonight.

So get partyin'!

Shadow.

About 24 hours ago, Sharky's dad was speaking lucidly again, even though he's now in a wheelchair. The doctors told him and Sharky's step-mum the situation, which they conveyed to us. 

Even if Sharky were to wake up out of his coma (an event that the doctors said would be almost impossible) they said he would have severe brain damage. The reason for this being that Sharky's dad took the brunt of the cars colliding, but the Stop Sign crushed Sharky's head far worse.

They both asked us to leave, and said they'll call us back when they decided what to do. We left, but everything seemed to have no meaning as we just waited idly for something to happen. In about an hour, we got a call, which was from Shadow. It was exceptionally hard breaking the news to him because he and Sharky have been friends basically since they were in diapers, to the point where they're more like brothers.
We waited for several hours, even through the night. None of us felt like sleeping. Eventually, at about 1:30 am, we got the call from Karen telling us to come to the hospital, and to bring Sharky's brothers (Mike, Joey and CJ).

When we got there, they told us that they knew Sharky wouldn't have wanted to continue living if he was unable to live a full life. They told us that they had decided to cut the life support.

While we obviously weren't happy about it but we knew it was the right decision. You guys knew Sharky; he was all about having as much fun at any one time as he could, about enjoying life to the max. We all knew that he wouldn't have wanted to be a vegetable.

At 12:11 pm (chosen because apparently it was the time of his birth) on the 27th of August, 2007, Ryan Joesph Sharkler was pronunced dead. With him at the time were his father, step-mother, brothers, sister, sister in law (Jay, Kate and Alex all flew up to be with them at the time) and his friends. However, two of the people he would have wished could be there (his mum and his best friend) weren't. Hopefully, wherever he is now, he and his mum are reunited.

We have good and bad news.

The good news is that the drunk driver was arrested. Hopefully he gets all that is coming for him. If we were the judges, we'd throw him in a river with a pit of crocodiles and let nature take it's course. Stupid cruel and unusual punishment.

Also, Sharky's dad woke up out of his coma about an hour ago. He isn't fully lucid yet, but they say that that should come soon enough.

However, the news on Sharky is bad. Really bad. The docs say that he isn't likely to ever come out of his coma. Once his dad is fully consious, he and his step-mum will decide what to do.

There isn't much else to say really. By Tuesday, we'll have an update.