bokey wrote: 
Me. Pick up the phone. Me.

Don't you know me at all?

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: Well,you could surprise me and call,I've been in a good place the last few months and I gotta tell you, feeling great is great!

 bokey wrote: 
That is something we can agree upon.

 BlueHeronDruid wrote: 
Well,I just posted Poo poo doodyhead in another thread.It was pretty deep if you think bout it.

The whole country is going bonkers.

 bokey wrote: 
So write what you need to write, anywhere. I'll read it.

I guess by now everyone who cares has weighed in on the demise of our lovely journals.
I could sure do one right about now.
 So.........?

 PoundPuppy wrote: 
I am so glad that someone was there for you!

Well there is not a journal option anymore so I'll say it here.

 It's been 1096 days since I felt I just couldn't anymore. I just could not imagine going on. The reasons are unimportant, but I made and nearly pulled off one of my worst ideas and decisions yet.

There's been a meme on FB about suicide and sticks. Odd choice... sticks I mean but whatever works.

On that not just let me say that if someone in that state does reach out to you, please do not respond with the complete indifference I got when I called a "friend" that day. 

Thank you to the ones who saw my behavior for what it was and chose to help me when I couldn't help myself. 

You know who you are and I would not be here if not for you.

 kurtster wrote: 
Well I guess the Spammers won this battle. dammit.
I can't help but feel that this is somehow Obama's fault 

Sorry for the attempt at humor. I just realized that RP has stopped the Journals. That's what I get for commenting on something that I had no idea occurred. I think I'll miss the journals. In the past I read quite a few and even posted several.

The problem of course is the trolls. It just gets old having my blood pressure go up when someone is being rude and nasty. I can handle differences of opinion, but the nastiness and pointless vitriol is not needed in my life.

It's a shame when something has to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. 

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Another plus for the journals.  I do get the complications they add to the overall website.   For some reason though, I believe that they have helped to keep this place what it is and it may have been even more diminished without them with the rise of Facebook and all.

I've been wondering about how much the Forum is actually a marketing tool to attract and retain new listeners.  People stumble on to this place, see a very comprehensive website with all kinds of things to get involved with.  The song comments are definitely an integral part of keeping a handle on listener tastes.  

Without a doubt, RP is a sound business model for this kind of enterprise.  But Internet radio as we like it is seriously threatened with the Sound Exchange problem.  Just have a sad feeling about the future here now.  It's starting to look like a fun while it lasted kinda thing.

 

 kurtster wrote: 
Just wear a mask when you are posting to maintain anonymity.

If posting in the toxic political forums, you might want to consider this type:

 

 kurtster wrote: 
it also will be google searchable. the journals weren't

 kurtster wrote: 
The most personal I get on here is the world famous tizapeepee dance. *(* *)* *(* *)* *(*

 PoundPuppy wrote: 
Sure you can, but ... whatever you put up stays up forever.  No deleting or making it private after a certain amount of time which was one of the primary benefits of the journals.  While you can delete your own post, if someone directly replies to it, its immortalized forever.  That and the fact that nothing is sacred over here on this side subjects it to all kinds of the usual bs, insults and thread jacking that is typical here on this side.

I would seriously not put up anything on this side that is sensitive or asks for help in delicate or personal matters such as many of us have in the journals knowing that we have complete control and can make go away once the need has been fulfilled.

 PoundPuppy wrote: 
sounds good to me too.. 

strangely I keep looking at the journals tab to see if anything has happened since Kurtster's stereo system went poof. 

 PoundPuppy wrote: 
Go ahead. I've thought about it. Too lazy.

So can we start a forum for journal entries or is that not something we want to do??

 kurtster wrote: 
Me too.

 PoundPuppy wrote: 
I've been wanting to as well.