Atomictumor

Sometimes thats my problem.  See, I’ve learned of myself that I have very little impulse control.  If I get the urge to do something, well, it’s pretty much going to get done.

Now, I have this large audience, that checks in on a daily basis, evidently hoping that I’ll have something to tell em, and on days like this, when about the only thing on my mind is a headache, well, its hard at acquiesce.  However, the problem is, that blank spot under the “Write”  header starts to mock me, insulting my lineage, and telling me that I’m lower than dirt.

We can’t let that happen now, can we?

I suppose I could talk about the many faceted smack down that the Oak Ridger’s publisher, Richard Esposito, gave today in his editorial.  He manages to address problems with retail in Oak Ridge, small mindedness in the world, and dumbasses on the internet in a way that is both masterful and wicked awesome.

See, I’ve mentioned it before, but I kinda cut my internety teeth with the Oak Ridger (no, not the April Fools thing, although so far nobody has sued), but on the old skool Oak Ridger forums.  This was about 3 or 4 years ago, and it was great to see a place filled up with people in this weird little town, discussing the issues of this weird little town.  Before that, there was the newspaper, and that was about it for folks like myself  that weren’t ‘connected’ with the town.  I started posting on there, met some good friends there, and enjoyed it.  Over time, different elements of folks started rolling in there, people who weren’t interested in intelligent discourse, but in berating other users, and continuing mindless tirades against certain people, for reasons that I’ll never understand.

Around that time, we started the Tumor, and the friends we had on the boards starting coming over here, or starting their own websites, and it kinda picked up from there.  Meanwhile, the trolls and jackasses on the Oak Ridger forums started multiplying, and we had to deal with one or two of em here as well.  I always kinda enjoyed that, as the beauty of having your own website are the multitudes of various ways to deal with mean people, which might be why we never had many of em.

Unfortunately, these days the playground we all used to enjoy is filled up with weeds.  I made a very short attempt to head back there, along with Daco, and Joel, and a few others, and try to steer the forums back into a place where theres a remote possiblity somebody would enjoy being there, but I gave up.  Lots of people blamed the mod of the forums, but I don’t.  I’ve met the guy a time or two, and got along.  He’s a hired gun, and I doubt he has any power to do anything to clean up the place.  Frankly, I get the feeling he dislikes the place as much as I do, but he has to keep going back every day.  Sucks, huh?

By this point, the plane has crashed into the mountain.  There isn’t any saving those forums.

But my headache’s better…

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