Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Ok, and now that I've read up on the last few weeks of posts, I would like to jump in.
My first thought is that it doesn’t really matter to me if OO reopens the site, because I was notoriously never on topic. If I post at OO, I can just infuriate a new generation of OO readers, which might be kind of fun, actually, now that I think about it.
But, nah, I don’t think it a good idea (although I would love to see PBob’s spreadsheets and colored graphs and pie charts before I make that my final answer). There have been post-mortems to the post-mortems regarding May 1996. I don’t know that rehashing any of it is good for any of our psyches. It’s kind of like when I watch my old video tapes of the Los Angeles Kings coming so close to winning the Stanley Cup over a decade ago. They never win, and it just kills another piece of my soul every time I watch (But I’ll never get tired of watching the Great One – what vision, what hands…but I digress).
At the risk of sounding entirely too weird and spiritual, it just seems to me that if total strangers continually go back and rehash and replay the details that lead up to your death in excruciating detail ad infinitum, how can a person’s soul ever really find peace? I mean, we’re ten years out. Let’s say a private prayer for them and hope they’re climbing even higher in the great beyond, where the gear is even lighter, more flexible, fits better, more affordable, performs better, and comes in even flashier colors.
Also, regarding OO, I have to agree with Bruce that it IS about dollars and cents. I still have this great dream about taking the Lori and Bruce Show on the road and making Millions ($USD), selling out huge concert halls, and if OO thinks that they're going to get the L&B Show posting on their site for free -- anniversary or not -- well, they can just forget it. I mean, do you expect Pavoratti to perform for free? Britney Spears? ok then!
My first thought is that it doesn’t really matter to me if OO reopens the site, because I was notoriously never on topic. If I post at OO, I can just infuriate a new generation of OO readers, which might be kind of fun, actually, now that I think about it.
But, nah, I don’t think it a good idea (although I would love to see PBob’s spreadsheets and colored graphs and pie charts before I make that my final answer). There have been post-mortems to the post-mortems regarding May 1996. I don’t know that rehashing any of it is good for any of our psyches. It’s kind of like when I watch my old video tapes of the Los Angeles Kings coming so close to winning the Stanley Cup over a decade ago. They never win, and it just kills another piece of my soul every time I watch (But I’ll never get tired of watching the Great One – what vision, what hands…but I digress).
At the risk of sounding entirely too weird and spiritual, it just seems to me that if total strangers continually go back and rehash and replay the details that lead up to your death in excruciating detail ad infinitum, how can a person’s soul ever really find peace? I mean, we’re ten years out. Let’s say a private prayer for them and hope they’re climbing even higher in the great beyond, where the gear is even lighter, more flexible, fits better, more affordable, performs better, and comes in even flashier colors.
Also, regarding OO, I have to agree with Bruce that it IS about dollars and cents. I still have this great dream about taking the Lori and Bruce Show on the road and making Millions ($USD), selling out huge concert halls, and if OO thinks that they're going to get the L&B Show posting on their site for free -- anniversary or not -- well, they can just forget it. I mean, do you expect Pavoratti to perform for free? Britney Spears? ok then!
