Plasmaball
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Worth a shot..no clueshe_is_my_addiction
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Worth a shot..no clueshe_is_my_addiction
I think the get togethers were just starting to be a thing when I left in 06 (juicylips)I have memories of the litster get togethers and some of the posts those who attended shared.
Some were lovely or hilarious...
I went to 2 in DC and 1 in NYC. They were before I was married, probably 2002. Sorry that I didn't make the MidWest one, I could have met Calamity Jane and Killer Muffin.I think the get togethers were just starting to be a thing when I left in 06 (juicylips)
I’ve only met one person from here.
I haven't been here that long but just turned 70 this summer. Although I don't feel like an oldie besides the occasional back pain. LoL But I still get hard as ever. That part makes me feel young. Too bad the wife isn't interested anymore.got here in 2009, so does 14 years make me an oldie? more of a middler, i'd guess
yes, the general board was a lot livelier with conversation back then, but even those days you had the real oldies complaining the golden age had passed.
i agree with patient1 regarding this: "American politics is more adversarial and polarized than it was at the turn of the century, and I think that was demonstrated in flame wars on the GB. I don't blame people for complaining about that" or do i blame Laurel for making a political board to ease the problem but it was a major change and now the GB has only a couple of threads i visit, and a desire to contribute new threads is very very restricted.
'02-'06 was probably the heyday. I think I had 4 or 5 in Houston and we attended 4 in Austin, one in San Antonio and several in Dallas. Blues went to one in Boston. Following UncleJ's death in early '07, with resulting drama here -- that pretty much killed off folks wanting to mix Lit with real life in a big group setting. '08 was a big Lit exodus. Facebook opened to the public, having started just for university membership. MySpace had chat rooms, as did yahoo and there were private ning groups for folks to stay connected.I think the get togethers were just starting to be a thing when I left in 06 (juicylips)
I’ve only met one person from here.
Thanks for the South-Central recap. Reminds me that I think we pointed Blues Boy ( when he was a new arrival) in Uncle Johnny's direction, figuring they would have stuff to talk about which we wouldn't necessarily understand. Was BB/Uncle J a mutual appreciation society?'02-'06 was probably the heyday. I think I had 4 or 5 in Houston and we attended 4 in Austin, one in San Antonio and several in Dallas. Blues went to one in Boston. Following UncleJ's death in early '07, with resulting drama here -- that pretty much killed off folks wanting to mix Lit with real life in a big group setting. '08 was a big Lit exodus. Facebook opened to the public, having started just for university membership. MySpace had chat rooms, as did yahoo and there were private ning groups for folks to stay connected.
Being an old timer encompasses both age and a finely honed attitudeOld timer is attitude, not age.
I prefer older guysBeing an old timer encompasses both age and a finely honed attitude
I actually had a 19 year old stalker.I prefer older guys
WowI actually had a 19 year old stalker.
More like WTF.
Look ma! I'm a zombie!Raising the dead thread for the weekend.
I "just" did a series of facebook posts about their friendship. [I log into Bluesboy's fb every day to see his memories, as they're only available on the day.] Let me see if I can relate a sanitized version for you. UncleJ built a guitar and posted photos of it here. Bluesboy saw them and gave him shit about not being able to play it. UncleJ posted for him to get his ass over there and he could play it. That prompted us to take a 5 hour trip to UncleJ's shop and take him to lunch (first ever meeting). [During said lunch, a cruton fell off my fork directly into my cleveage, RIGHT in front of UncleJ -- who gave me shit about it the rest of his life.] Bluesboy had been wanting a custom-made guitar for ages, but they were just too pricey. He LOVED UncleJ's guitar, so while Bluesboy was busy playing, I asked UncleJ the price to build one for Bluesboy? It was less than 1/2 of the ones he'd been looking at commercially, so I gave him a down payment on the spot and told Bluesboy on the way home it was his birthday, christmas, easter, valentines for the next couple of years. I admit there were times I regretted it over the coming year because that guitar became an absolute OBSESSION between both men. They talked on the phone EVERY.DAY. We made MANY trips to see UncleJ and spent many weekends and vacations there in the Texas Hill Country. They played gigs and house parties together, and just became really really close friends. It was a bit frightening how similar their humor was, really 2 peas in a pod, so you can imagine what it was like being around both of them together. We started finding guitars to buy inexpensively and took them to UncleJ to set up and flip in his shop, where we'd split profits, or trade for him to work on Bluesboy's other guitars.Thanks for the South-Central recap. Reminds me that I think we pointed Blues Boy ( when he was a new arrival) in Uncle Johnny's direction, figuring they would have stuff to talk about which we wouldn't necessarily understand. Was BB/Uncle J a mutual appreciation society?
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