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I don't hate ya Frank. I never hated ya. I just wish you'd done things a little differently. . .

PS: About that moniker? In the beginning, I wasn't sure how to present myself, a horror movie watching Metalhead freak, to the great Harlan Ellison and his entourage. So I thought I'd get it all out in the open. Even when I changed as a person, I liked the Rhyme too much to change the name. . . :twi...

Well folks. . .it's been a blast. January 6, 2004. 3516 posts (would this be 3517?). I stumbled into here as a confused, heart broken adolescent, and leave. . .well, pretty much the same. But what a time it's been. I immediately found that almost any topic of any interest could find a ready audience...

Gonna miss this place. . .

Merry Christmas btw. God bless us, every one!

I am deeply saddened to have lost this place, which I've been coming to for more than a decade now. No other forum is really comparable - Facebook doesn't cut it, and I'm reluctant to stick my nose too often into the Pavilion, being a total stranger to Unca Harlan. My policy toward the place has lon...

Nothing at the moment. My attention span is shot. I don't know if it'll ever come back. . .

You know, I was almost aboard the Crazy Train, 'till those back up singers started doing their thing. . .

Meanwhile in Pakistan:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/807619/they ... the-kalma/

FrankChurch wrote:
Smoke On The Water, is that idiocy?

Of course not. But don't forget, Blackmore also came up with some of the most complex riffs and solos of his day. Your guys seem to want all of one and none of the other. . .

And simplicity for simplicity's sake is knuckle dragging idiocy. . .

FrankChurch wrote: Sam Harris just makes stuff up.

Isn't that all theologians do?

Of course it's art - but so is "art", and it wouldn't kill anybody check that out once in a while.

Your Cristgau is the living embodiment of reverse-culture snobbery. "Keep it Simple Stupid", ever and always.

Mark my perception is that popular culture is now the only thing that is taken seriously Absolutely. Practitioners of "high" culture are always having to justify their existence, and demonstrate their "open-mindedness" - no such pressure works the other way. Who dares assert the...

Apparently the story's wrong - not a hoax exactly, but bad reporting. Well it ought to be true, even if it ain't:

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/12/1 ... t-so-fast/