Zed Shaw's infamous meltdown showed an angry man lashing out at anything and everything. It made a lot of people sad. It made me especially sad because this didn't feel like the same Zed that I had dinner with in Chicago or that I had talked to so many times before. I actually thought he might be in real trouble and in need of real help, but was assured by third party that he wasn't (Zed never replied to my emails after publishing).