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WHERE IT BEGAN


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SITES I SEE A LOT
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Harry Chapin Lyrics
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(WISH I HAD MORE TIME
TO READ and EXPLORE)

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utne reader
common dreams
the progressive
mediate
the other side
orion
harper's
rolling stone
reel classics


fallout shelter
the memory hole
song meanings
truth out
wil wheaton
bugmenot
global news matrix
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are you generic?
neil gaiman
h2g2
daily kos
the truth laid bear
reason
capitol hill blue
boing boing
nobody here




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all musicals




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ill will press
the guide
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maximum awesome
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something awful
glossy news
eric conveys emotion
odd todd
cracked



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urban legends
news of the weird
church of the fsm
the onion
god checker
faqs
fark
iGod
post secret
webby awards
meetup
the white house
ragged trousered philosopher
the smoking gun
the defective yeti
landover baptist
evil bible


COMMERCIAL CRAP (AND PRON)

(Note: pron is porn worth a look for amusement much more than passion, so if you see a (p) next to a link, be aware naked people may appear if you click it, m'ok?)

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real doll (p)
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�2006 Candor Communications


2016-05-12 - 2:54 a.m.

Laughing Lament


I will keep coming back to see
if you or anyone missed me
I will keep checking in with hope
that somebody will care

I will keep giving
loving and living
hoping someone will stay



I have a surplus of Taco Bell Diablo sauce packets for sale. Most of them have not been opened. Make an offer.

So the world still whirls around, aye? Me?... I am still writing too much every day somewhere, here and there, for instance. It's an addiction for me, this blogging life.

And you, are you still whirling around? How many years are you willing to remember? I spent the past week, a few hours a day (or night), reading this diary (still a diary, not a blog, aye?). What interested and excited and amused me even more than my own writings were the comments left here. My smile kept widdening and I kept saying to myself, "I remember you" again and again.

Dear sweet lovable Smash, how I miss your growling sense of humor and damn near pure heart. Don't worry, I'll never tell what a cuddly teddy bear lives inside the giant moster suit (wink wink, nudge nudge, blind bats can see what we all miss). If you want to explore the creative mind (and heart) of a mad rocker biker masher (as in gas peddle masher), there is one place to go which leads to the following lament.


Once I was a star online
but the story disappeared
my ego lost a hundred pounds
and my long mane was sheared
still I was never Sampson or
any sort of great man
so it is fitting that I end
up in the garbage can

but no more woe is me for me
I did it to myself
what should I expect when I
put my friends on a shelf
and leave them there for many years
like unread books and dust
who'd believe that the silence cares?
or that sillness has lust?

it's a betrayal of trust
but I shall overcome my fears
and admit I still love you all
as simple as it appears
I still see rainbow through the tears



I don't know, was that lament? Maybe it was an ambivalent cheer for hope. There's always hope, right? I used to remind myself of that regularly, daily even. It must still be true because here I am again, remembering and feeling smiles all through me. Anyone who needs an apology for my disappearing, I will happily apologize in any way that works for you. I meant no harm. That's my primary philosophy, if you recall. Honesty Without Harm. Yes, capitalized. You may also note that I am using punctuation. Some of you may be calling out, "Who is this imposter?" but the babbling might be familiar in a few more paragraphs. I use punctuation in my latest blogs. I practiced and practiced and decided to try it. I may not have it just right, but then, I am not trying to be just right, I am trying punctuation.

The lament is real though, even if I didn't express it clearly (I doubt I did, I mean, I am older and less adept at this free associative creative magic now, after all). The saddest lament is finding so many diaries locked. People I adored (really, I adored you DandyDandy... sigh... and stop pouting everyone else, I adored many of you. HissandTell, locked. That's just wrong. Deserves a HissyTelly fit, even. Kung Fu Kitten silent since late 2013 and oh no, TranceJen, where art thou?... I am still loving the Mix CDs you sent me). Already I am rambling without a ruddder.

So many more... f-i-n is a blank white page where so much wonder (for me, at least) used to be. Maybe that is the wonder, create your own?. Just look, PoolaGirl locked. Moon Baby, locked. Naked Barista, gone. Erases, locked. Ellipse, 2005. Anna Rain, 2007. Abby Normal, locked. Lady Leroy, gone. SquirrelX, locked. At least Uncle Bob and Bien Soul said a real goodbyes. Sighs galore.

Of course some of you might recall I am an emo kid from way back and often get ridiculously emotional about obvious that's life stuff. I mean, I am still mourning the loss of Smoog and McEarstix and Erato and recovering from the tragedy of when Clarity25 and Cutething locked away their respective geniuses as they were some of my absolute favoritest people and reads. I miss my online heroes. I could go on all night it seems, so many people simply closed or deleted or locked their online presences at Diaryland. Am I the strange one for leaving all of mine open and even though it's rare, occasionally sprinkled with words?

So many others pausing a year or few in the past with no forwarding address leaving me to wonder... are you alive? Are you writing somewhere else? Do you ever think of me? How are you? Will you answer? I still really really really want to know? How can I be sure? Do I really really really want to be sure? I am not sure of what I may want to be sure of and I think I may have lost that sincere lament that was pouring out before this run on sentence started, but I miss you, I really really really do miss you. I miss Smed and SmedIndy too.

Tim Dangerous, where have you walked off to? Were you consumed by a potato? Did you start your fast again and waste away to nothing? BornEarly, gone since 2012, I still listen to your music and other music you turned me on to. Maybe some of you will come back like Not Bob did. Hugs for the challenges you've survived and hugs of hope for better days continuing.

All the wonderful people on my Profile Lists, where have you gone?

Still, it is not all a barren wasteland out there. There are some bounce-up-and-down-cheering surprises too, like Golf Widow moving to a free standing website that is, get this, actually about golf!. Who'da thunkit? Evanelle, do I know you, I feel like I do. Or should. Weetabix moved, but still shares online. And I am smiling to see the 29th yay, kind like me in a hit and run hello and well wishes, but I know your sincerity... mine are sincere too... hope you are well too.

There must be a wondrous place out there where Nicim is blessing someone with her light and wonder and hope and belief in love, but alas, it has been some time between entries. I miss you my friend.

Pushing through the lament like determined daisies (feel free to substitute a macho metaphor or other reference for those of you who do not like being referred to as daisies) were some amazing diariest still diarying, ummm, writing in their diary. Dangerspouse seems timeless, endless, ridiculous, but in a wonderfully endearing way (respect, much respect to the brain behind those words)... Raven72d is a stallworth (does that word still exist?) restoring my faith in the passion and addiction of writing online (I am not the only one in the asylum, yay)... it is good to see Mistress Matisse is still whipping up entries regularly... and Stepford lives!...

Reason to celebrate (Yay!).

Not to be outdone, Bindyree is still breathing words into this place, wonderful to see even if my laptop is currently soundless. I remember Don't Remember too (I was never good at following instructions like that). And the ever increasingly inspiring Melody Metuka continues to pop up and remind me, without really trying, that no matter how challenging my life may be or has ever been, I am lucky to have the challenges I have and not the challenges she has. Thank you all (so many not mentioned) for the continued inspirations.

And now we pause for a moment of reverent reflection...

Dear deepest memories and long lost favorites, so many, so it seems so sad that Autumnal is not accepting new notes and only left five entries on dairyland, alas, but she left a note saying she is on tumblr, so there is hope?

Hope and excitement continued to bubble as I found Nebulous was maybe not completely gone... oh dear Nebby, so much like family I adopted and fell in love with so long ago, I hope all is well.

Speaking of family, Moo! must be somewhere, you just must. There you are! (and Facebook too... Facebook, I wonder how many of my wonderful Diaryland memories are alive and posting on Facebook? It seems to be the thing to do these days. I was there for many many years myself. Bugs Webbot was the name for about ten years until Facebook blocked that account {I am suffering from PCTS... Post Cyber-Trauma Stress... ten years of lost posts, photos, and thousands of connections. All cuz I do not like Hillary much, but that's another rant for another blog} and I had to create another one. Ric Held, look me up if you like. I am not there much. Facebook betrayed me and disillusionment is all I feel when I go there. I'll get over it, I mean, overdramatic emo doesn't last forever).

Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking...

Obviously this entry is incomplete, far from satifying, and certainly not the free flowing babble that I expect of myself here, but hey, this may continue, even without a little encouragement :)







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