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Kevin McCormick and Fort Point Channel
By adamg on Fri, 11/18/2005 - 11:32pm
JL wonders about the effect on the burgeoning art and residential areas in and around Fort Point Channel of the death of Kevin "Frostbyte" McCormick in an alleged sex club/meth lab:
... It's a sad, sordid, and quite unclear tale. What is evident is that the South Boston waterfront really doesn't need this sort of thing. Not like meth labs are exactly wanted anywhere, but really: with the ICA's new building going up just around the corner, the Children's Museum nearby, all the Fort Point Channel arts stuff, loads of new residential units, restaurants, businesses, etc., I have to imagine that the people who have been working to renew the area can't but be alarmed. It's a big city, and things will happen, but sheesh. ...
Meanwhile, people who knew McCormick continue to post tributes:
Wally was in the same MIT fraternity:
... I find that I don't know how to write about him. He irritated me no end, at times, and our lifestyles after he left tep were wholly dissimilar. But he was brilliant and messy and good, and I loved him, and I miss him now, the way one invariably does when it makes no difference. ...
Lee went to high school with McCormick:
... Kevin was always an odd duck, but I never expected anything like this from him. He was one of the smartest and geekiest people I ever knew - someone who set up a retina scan for entrance to his MIT dorm room and had a robot maid to vacuum his place way back in the mid-90s. I hope that the investigators can get to the bottom of this mess, and rest in peace Kevin.
Rojagato remembers his interest in art:
... I'd keep running into him at BCA, the Gardner, and especially the ICA, and I ran into him accidentally at the Iris Apfel exhibit at the Met last Halloween; and he was always the perfect docent. At the Met, when I was saying, "you gotta be kidding", he was so patient, gently taking my hand and saying "okay, you got the Morocco, the North African shit down, don't get so excited, Khadijeh. Now we're throwing DK on top of it. Stop. Breathe. ...
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Kevin McCormick's work.
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Kevin McCormick and Fort Point Channel
What is evident is that the South Boston waterfront really doesn't need this sort of thing?
Numerous articles have told the lurid tale of a meth lab that was discovered after the death of Kevin McCormick. One DEA agent, who refused to give his name said,†This is probably the largest (meth) lab we’ve seen in the Northeast in the past 10 years.†The articles go on to mention an assortment of drugs found in the apartment. The drugs found in the apartment included marijuana and ecstasy, but no methamphetamines.
One article even noted the rodents found in the basement of the Congress Street building, but sill no mention of consumable methamphetamines, only the chemicals used to make it. Because the ingredients used to produce meth are so common, I would guess most Americans have the makings of a meth lab in their homes.
Ecstasy?
Yesterday's issue of the MIT student newspaper The Tech contained this article on Kevin's death. It is the only one I've seen so far that claims he died while taking ecstasy.
lmv: if you read my full
lmv: if you read my full post, rather than the partial excerpt posted here, you'll see that I also consider the possibility that there was no actual meth lab. I have no idea if there was one or not; it's entirely possible that the police, confronted by a death, other drugs, an unusual environment, and chemicals, leapt to conclusions. I think it's obvious that, if it were a meth lab, the non-tweaker population of the area would feel that South Boston doesn't need it. And frankly, for many of the people living, working, or trying to build institutions in the area, stories of meth labs aren't much wanted, either.