Belle Lettre wrote:Oh my Jesus!
And people wonder why I drink.
Belle Lettre wrote:Oh my Jesus!
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
sloopjohnc wrote:Just got text from Feeb - sending me 15 discs of his music. Maybe I can hear it all before I die.
Jumper K wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:Just got text from Feeb - sending me 15 discs of his music. Maybe I can hear it all before I die.
Look in the bright side it might be 15 cd singles.
kath wrote:i do not wanna buy the world a fucquin gotdamn coke.
sloopjohnc wrote:
I've gone to Jolly Ups if it's with people I might like to meet and know better, but I think most people who've met me at one, will find out that talking about which Led Zeppelin songs were recorded at Headley Grange or wherever for Houses of the Holy but didn't make the cut and were put on Physical Graffiti, doesn't interest me much. Or for very long.
The Great Defector wrote:Whoever it is, get crisps. Not cheese and fucking onion.
Footy wrote:
The Who / Jimi Hendrix Experience Saville Theatre, London Jan '67
. Got Jimi's autograph after the show and went on to see him several times that year
Nikki Gradual wrote:If it is judged by how often you check in rather than how frequently you post, I still clearly care a great deal, it's just that how much I have to contribute has diminished massively.
sloopjohnc wrote: I decided I was going to take off and messaged Markus with my emails in case he wanted to stay in touch. I do that a lot these days. I'm very conflicted about the place.
Drama Queenie wrote:You are a chauvinist of the quaintest kind. About as threatening as Jack Duckworth, you are a harmless relic of that cherished era when things were 'different'. Now get back to drawing a moustache on that page three model
Diamond Dog wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:
I've gone to Jolly Ups if it's with people I might like to meet and know better, but I think most people who've met me at one, will find out that talking about which Led Zeppelin songs were recorded at Headley Grange or wherever for Houses of the Holy but didn't make the cut and were put on Physical Graffiti, doesn't interest me much. Or for very long.
I find myself pretty much the same about the ERA of every Giants pitcher since the turn of the (last) century, or the rebound % of every point guard to have played for the Golden State Warriors since 1950, but each to their own hey Sloop?
The Great Defector wrote:sloopjohnc wrote: I decided I was going to take off and messaged Markus with my emails in case he wanted to stay in touch. I do that a lot these days. I'm very conflicted about the place.
He still has an AOL e mail address
sloopjohnc wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:
I've gone to Jolly Ups if it's with people I might like to meet and know better, but I think most people who've met me at one, will find out that talking about which Led Zeppelin songs were recorded at Headley Grange or wherever for Houses of the Holy but didn't make the cut and were put on Physical Graffiti, doesn't interest me much. Or for very long.
I find myself pretty much the same about the ERA of every Giants pitcher since the turn of the (last) century, or the rebound % of every point guard to have played for the Golden State Warriors since 1950, but each to their own hey Sloop?
Touche.
Did I ever write about the time Steph Curry had back-to-back 40 point games with 10 assists. . .?
Diamond Dog wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:
I find myself pretty much the same about the ERA of every Giants pitcher since the turn of the (last) century, or the rebound % of every point guard to have played for the Golden State Warriors since 1950, but each to their own hey Sloop?
Touche.
Did I ever write about the time Steph Curry had back-to-back 40 point games with 10 assists. . .?
You did. Twice.
sloopjohnc wrote:After Pete's post about his mom, and Davey's too, it's nice to have a place to journal feelings, yet still get a response from people you know online and seem to care, otherwise it's just going into the ether. I still post a lot and BCB doesn't mean what it used to mean to me. If Jethro shut it down tomorrow, I might miss it for a few days, but I'd go on. I know I'd feel like something was missing, but most of my really good friends are in the outside world. And I have a daughter and 15 year-old son who's not going to hang out with me for much longer, so that's where my loyalties lie.
I appreciate that some folks are best friends and have gotten married on the place, so I get the allegiance, but most, not all, of my good friends on here are gone. I had a nice conversation with Tony (King Feeb) recently, and while I couldn't hook up with him while in Denver, I consider him and Cosmic American Girl some of the better friends on here and I know they feel the same. But Spen (Molony Joy), Rob (Clippernolan), John (Kid P) and Graham (Django) haven't been on here for quite awhile. I email and message them in other ways.
There are some folks on here I'd try to keep in touch with like above, like I do when they decide to leave BCB, and I might wonder what so-and-so is doing these days, but it wouldn't go much further than that. But that may be a lie. Last week, I decided I was going to take off and messaged Markus with my emails in case he wanted to stay in touch. I do that a lot these days. I'm very conflicted about the place.
I've gone to Jolly Ups if it's with people I might like to meet and know better, but I think most people who've met me at one, will find out that talking about which Led Zeppelin songs were recorded at Headley Grange or wherever for Houses of the Holy but didn't make the cut and were put on Physical Graffiti, doesn't interest me much. Or for very long. I'd rather get to talk about more personal stuff - where you're living, how your kids are doing, etc. I want to find out about you. Also, unless I've been driven to Jolly Ups or have to give someone a ride, I don't tend to stay very long. Even the JU of the Americas in San Francisco, my home turf, I picked my spots very selectively.
I've noticed through the years that I differ from BCB that way. Lots of folks have encyclopedic knowledge on artist, but my interests are 10 miles wide and about 1/4" thick. More detailed info interests me in a trivial way, but I don't tuck it away for later use or to use in Yakety Yak as ammunition. All the recycled posts in Yakety Yak were interesting, but part of me felt like, "Really - we gotta talk about the same ol' shit again?"
And compared to when BCB started, there are other online places to go and discuss politics and sports. I have as much interest in those topics as I do music. Don't get me wrong - I love music, love listening to it and I like playing it, but BCB isn't the be all or end all for that either - I spend more time in guitar playing, reggae or powerpop sites to talk about music I like. It does lend itself to good conversation with smart people, but because of the lack of people spending much time on here, it can be hours or a day or two before you get a response.
Work is pretty boring for me these days and it's a place to hang out, but its more like the corner bar for me these days where not as many people hang out. I'm just waiting to drive up and see the "Out of Business" sign on the front door any day now.
I actually put this post in drafts to reread later because I didn't want my mood at the time to influence whether to post it. Rereading it, I'd say it does reflect my current attitude about the place.
Don't think I don't like the place, heck I'M THE SECOND LEADING POSTER on here, but I guess I'm just being pragmatic. I tend to retreat a little when I think something meaningful to me looks like it's going away or disappearing.
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
Minnie the Minx wrote:sloopjohnc wrote:After Pete's post about his mom, and Davey's too, it's nice to have a place to journal feelings, yet still get a response from people you know online and seem to care, otherwise it's just going into the ether. I still post a lot and BCB doesn't mean what it used to mean to me. If Jethro shut it down tomorrow, I might miss it for a few days, but I'd go on. I know I'd feel like something was missing, but most of my really good friends are in the outside world. And I have a daughter and 15 year-old son who's not going to hang out with me for much longer, so that's where my loyalties lie.
I appreciate that some folks are best friends and have gotten married on the place, so I get the allegiance, but most, not all, of my good friends on here are gone. I had a nice conversation with Tony (King Feeb) recently, and while I couldn't hook up with him while in Denver, I consider him and Cosmic American Girl some of the better friends on here and I know they feel the same. But Spen (Molony Joy), Rob (Clippernolan), John (Kid P) and Graham (Django) haven't been on here for quite awhile. I email and message them in other ways.
There are some folks on here I'd try to keep in touch with like above, like I do when they decide to leave BCB, and I might wonder what so-and-so is doing these days, but it wouldn't go much further than that. But that may be a lie. Last week, I decided I was going to take off and messaged Markus with my emails in case he wanted to stay in touch. I do that a lot these days. I'm very conflicted about the place.
I've gone to Jolly Ups if it's with people I might like to meet and know better, but I think most people who've met me at one, will find out that talking about which Led Zeppelin songs were recorded at Headley Grange or wherever for Houses of the Holy but didn't make the cut and were put on Physical Graffiti, doesn't interest me much. Or for very long. I'd rather get to talk about more personal stuff - where you're living, how your kids are doing, etc. I want to find out about you. Also, unless I've been driven to Jolly Ups or have to give someone a ride, I don't tend to stay very long. Even the JU of the Americas in San Francisco, my home turf, I picked my spots very selectively.
I've noticed through the years that I differ from BCB that way. Lots of folks have encyclopedic knowledge on artist, but my interests are 10 miles wide and about 1/4" thick. More detailed info interests me in a trivial way, but I don't tuck it away for later use or to use in Yakety Yak as ammunition. All the recycled posts in Yakety Yak were interesting, but part of me felt like, "Really - we gotta talk about the same ol' shit again?"
And compared to when BCB started, there are other online places to go and discuss politics and sports. I have as much interest in those topics as I do music. Don't get me wrong - I love music, love listening to it and I like playing it, but BCB isn't the be all or end all for that either - I spend more time in guitar playing, reggae or powerpop sites to talk about music I like. It does lend itself to good conversation with smart people, but because of the lack of people spending much time on here, it can be hours or a day or two before you get a response.
Work is pretty boring for me these days and it's a place to hang out, but its more like the corner bar for me these days where not as many people hang out. I'm just waiting to drive up and see the "Out of Business" sign on the front door any day now.
I actually put this post in drafts to reread later because I didn't want my mood at the time to influence whether to post it. Rereading it, I'd say it does reflect my current attitude about the place.
Don't think I don't like the place, heck I'M THE SECOND LEADING POSTER on here, but I guess I'm just being pragmatic. I tend to retreat a little when I think something meaningful to me looks like it's going away or disappearing.
Sloop, I've noticed you talk a lot about how often you are in touch with people who aren't on BCB anymore. It seems really important to you to talk about that. What's important about that to you to reiterate it so much? Given that we all are in touch with people who don't post here anymore. I feel that you are trying to express something that I can't grasp.