Cheers Colin.
I came here to read my old stuff and more to read the responses again. I loved this shit. For a very short time fatDOG got me through. Through my life, through the night, through my thoughts, this site just got me through july and august of 2001. It is extremely hard to believe it's been exactly 8 years. And then, in similar form to some of my posts on here, I feel like it's also hard to believe that it has ONLY been 8 years.
This site continues to mean alot to me, even though I only wrote four entries over two months in my life, this place will remain important to me. It was fun to read what my friends had to say, and it was fun to get out some of the things living in my mind at that time without worrying about upsetting anyone. But most fun of all for me was reading responses to what I had said, and telling you all how I felt about what you had written. The commentary conversations were the most important part to me.
It's funny, you said that "there were exceptions to the rule, of course." I have to tell you that I think fatDOG - in and of itself - WAS the exception to the rule. There are a few sentences in my posts from when I was 18 that truly embarass me. However, there are things I wrote on here that are so insightful they make me feel like I was not only wiser back then than I remember, but that since then I may have lost some of that wisdom that I was then unaware of. My current self needs to always have this reminder of the former self who lives on here.
For my part, I can remember that once we went to college, the limited exclusivity of fatDOG diminished, and for me the intimacy of a limited field of contributors and responders was part of what I loved about it. It was all friends of mine. Granted, I wasn't necessarily close with everyone, but we all knew each other, and I grew close to several people through the experience (I would say you are one) who I may not have otherwise gotten to know very well. When there seemed to be more articles from people I didn't know than from people I knew...I lost interest.
But...I also lost interest in my own thoughts for a while there.
Well I realize my response has been twice the length of your post but I think you should know what this place means to me. I think that you were extremely far ahead of yourself, your friends, and your time with this place. fatDOG is definite evidence of your genius. WOSOMP serves as evidence of the same. You managed to somehow pull creativity out of other people with this site. Your creativity is contageous. I really can't say enough right now.
I've already run the risk of having said too much, so let me wrap it up.
Thanks for this Colin.
brb
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