Hello folks, I was gladdened to see the outpouring of support on my last post (5 replies is more than I ever got blogging at Word Press).
I’ve been a busy boy these past weeks, and now the web site is functional. I have absolutely tons of family history and probably will be working on it well into next year, but the other sections for now are up.
For those who are saddened by it, I took down Florence Foster Jenkins a few years ago because I was starting to get various cease and desist threats, though I never did get one for her music. It’s hard to threaten to sue anybody over something quite so awful.
I also took down post cards and “send a card” – in that case because some of the zany ones (whom the companies of the 1990s stole from the 1950s) were really getting me a hassle of threats. To be honest, I wasn’t all that worried really (you can’t bleed a turnip, as they say) but I just didn’t want any problems.
This past year has not been very much fun overall. The past 4 years I’ve been involved with organizations or folks who are worried about where our culture and “civilization” are actually headed. It’s given me, at times, a lot of meaningful “work” to do, since I don’t work. But along the way a lot of my earlier zaniness from the 1990s, a more naive time period for me, has probably been lost.
Anyway, for now the web site is about like I plan to leave it. I may add several other old areas at some point, but I don’t plan to just now.