BoingBoing move to substack

I like the bit where I get some US podcast hour early for a week.

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I understood not one fecking word of that.
So good to have you back.

:grinning:

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Flossy!

Glad to see you here!

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Next week says ā€œhold my beerā€.

:neutral_face:

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@Flossaluzitarin

homestar-runner-eh-steve

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Oh, yes.
Deep breaths.

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I wuz hopin youā€™d show.

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For me itā€™s like there was this crusty old punk bar, dark and a little dirty, flyers plastering the walls, and I would wander on in to the back booth and all my friends old and new would be there sharing a pitcher of Old Style, laughing, arguing, discussing, occasionally dropping a quarter in the ancient jukebox full of random 45ā€™s, or the Elvira Mistress of the Dark pinball machine in the corner. The place was rightly famous and storied, and sometimes a big act would play there, but for us it was mostly just a hang out. Over the years the management tried different gimmicks to attract better paying customers, maybe cleaned up a little, bought new chairs, put in a tv, but we just ignored all that stuff at our back booth, milking that pitcher and shooting the shit.

Then the other day I go and thereā€™s a bouncer at the door telling me that theyā€™ve become a private club with a door charge. My heart sinks - Iā€™m broke! What am I gonna do now? Donā€™t worry, says the bouncer, youā€™re cool - lifetime free VIP pass for all you old regulars! I wipe the tears of joy from eyes and enter- but the place has been remodeled. The layers of flyers have been replaced with giant HDTV screens. The bar is all expensive cocktails - no Old Style at all, much less pitchers. Elvira has been replaced with some stupid VR game, and instead of the eclectic jukebox, preprogramed Top-40 blares nonstop so loud you canā€™t have a conversation. And the booth - the booth is just gone. Along with all my friends.

I stagger out into the back alley about to throw up as I realize that every meaningful and positive social interaction Iā€™ve had in the last ten, fifteen years was in that dark booth, and now I am abandoned, alone and forgotten.

Just then I hear a familiar voice say ā€œHey man, weā€™re over here!ā€ I follow to an anonymous little dive bar I never knew existed. Tears of joy again as I open the door and see that all my friends are here, the Old Style costs even less, and the place is even darker than the old bar was!

I am home!

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Beautiful, love the analogy. :+1:

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spn hug
Youā€™re one of the people everyone really hoped would get here, darlin.ā€™

All great blessings to you and yours.

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tenor-2374285669

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(Thank you for that)

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Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

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I for one welcome this popular loss of insanity due to black box theater! (Down with telling people to do their own WTF 12 episode humidity-driven performance space hustle workshop. Good clean wet market equity [chthulu: Right now Iā€™m buying you in a bucket! This appeals!] calamari FTW.) eta: Saw Kevin Kellyā€™s email about a rate card for a thing today. Wow Melizmatic and mindysan33, hope to tank up your inspo during the Harris Administrations then, whoa. [Sad Keneau on the side of a Matrix humanpower pod waits for Pod Services Help Chat to finish fake slowa-- typing.]

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How beautifully put.
Made me well up a little, gotta be honest.

notcrying

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Good tā€™see ye! Pull up a barrel!

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:clap: :clap: :clap:

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You said it well!!!

I havenā€™t been able to even take time to process let alone actually participate this month. But Iā€™m so glad to be able to see familiar faces talking to each other here. The new place feels lonely and like walking into a random discord :sob:

I hope yā€™all are doing ok though. Iā€™m glad you made it onto the ark of elsewhere.

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Iā€™m glad to both be here, and have you around. And as you already know but bares repeating, if you need anything make it known :slight_smile:

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I hope this is not the death rattle for my beloved BoingBoing.
I will try out the free look with fingers crossed.
Will my bbs food site still work?

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