what_happened_to_my_blather kendera whatever happened to the good old days of blather? when you could come here at 4 a.m. and have typhoid twisting your thoughts, and when you would only go to the schleiffen man to answer all of life's most difficult questions, and when blather was fun. what happened to you my blather? huh? 010120 ... chanaka everything good must come to an end i don't remember who said that, but it certainly is true. we are wistful, aren't we? if being wistful made wine, i would be drunk all the time. perhaps, as birdmad said, it's just a phase. i hope. and, coincidentally, did you go away? 010120 ... Thyartshallshant Maybe little populartiy contests are the real demise. Maybe it's the way of the world. Maybe it's people turning on friends for little more than no reason at all. Maybe it's me. Sounds like the last one. 010120 ... daxle what about my blather? the one before all the schleiffen plan nonsense? you just have to let things go. 010121 ... birdmad it is still here the phases which this place endures are the strata and sediment that accrue over time each new blatherer is an archaeologist, and each existing blathe a discovery to whomever has unearthed it i hope blather outlives us and people continue to make their marks here to drink deeply from this, our well of little secrets and private jokes, grievances with the world and insecurities and in doing so adding their own to the mix there is no perfect world there_is_no_true_vision gather ye rosebuds while ye may... 010121 ... Thyartshallshant "blather is big enough for everyone" -birdman Personally, i think he put it quite well. Some of you like me and some of you don't, but either way, the above statement is true. Just because i blather alot dosen't mean the essence of blather has changed into something resembling me. Maybe you all just need to blather more about what subjects make YOU happy and let me be. Or maybe i just need to shut up. Either way, I don't think im going anywhere. 010121 ... silentbob basically, i'm under the impression that when i started blathing, the things people would write were designed to make other people think. it was like a participation. now it just seems that a lot of people, not ONLY you, but many people just use it for their own amusement and arent trying to contribute to anything, that a lot of the blathes people write are designed to make people wank, and since they don't make me want to wank, i get annoyed and nostalgic for last summer, just like daxle gets nostalgic for 2 summers prior. and its not just you blathing a lot, its WHAT you blather a lot. and thats just things you say out of boredom that don't really have much thought put into them. no offense. its just been the last week or so, it seems to me, that its gone on. 010121 ... Thyartshallshant Well, everyone has there own reason for blathering. Sometimes, i blather for the response from others. Most of the time i blather for myself, and really nobody else. Sometimes i write intellegent things and other times i absolutly do not. Blather is what you perceive it to be, its whatever makes you happy. Right now, blather is what i want it to be, except maybe i piss SOME people off too much, but even that i like to a point, because i like doing that. That sometimes what makes me happy, and thats what blather is all about. But blather changes from person to person, but as a whole, it stays the same. It's just words. Words linking to other words. Thats all it's REALLY about. Does it really matter what the words are? I dunno, maybe. But for those who say they miss the old blather, well, im sorry that the "old blathers" don't come around and "bend your mind" but am I am not the one that made them stop coming around and blathering to your likeing. I don't think so. So if blather isn't the way you like it, your problem is with the people that USEDA blathe and make your day better, and not with me, even if I make it worse. 010121 ... twiggie people are going to be constantly coming across blather...finding it, reading what it holds inside, sharing their thoughts and ideas. because of that, blather will be changing all of the time. each person who comes across it is going to see it their own way, and interpret everything in their own way, and write what they have to say about it all. that's the beauty of it. no one has come to ruin your blather, my blather, her blather, his blather, their blather, the blather that once was... they've come to write. and even though they may not embrace it as you do, or write what he or she or you or they feels appropriate, they have left their mark. one that they wanted to. you don't have to agree with it all, you don't have to read it all. i don't think any one person should be attacked and singled out as "the person who ruined my blather", despite what you agree or disagree on. it's still blather. it's still that blue place you came to when you needed to get that story, thought, poem, song, anything you wanted, down in writing. and that's all i have to say on that. ROWR 010121 ... Thyartshallshant Exactly! Bravo! *claps wildly* 010121 ... god we are watching thy grow up before our eyes. 010121 ... Thyartshallshant Haha, well, hurry up now! Get over there! 010121 ... deb thy, i don't hate you- i don't even really hate what you blathe- what i hate is how you feel the need to incessantly fight back to everything bad someone says about you- despite what you might think, everyone here is NOT out to get you, we don't care how much you masterbate on your own time- we DO care that you feel the need to CONSTANTLY write about it (sometimes, ok. that's fine. but not every other blathe- come on, there's more to talk about) and just because someone doesn't agree with you, you don't have to go and throw a temper tantrum about it just to see how much of a response you'll get (this is the first and last time i say anything about this to you) what happened? people happened. what was once our pretty party of 10 is now a three-ring-circus. sigh. 010121 ... Thyartshallshant Well, im sorry i feel a need to defend myself. I don't throw a tantrum, but some OTHER people seem to. 010121 ... moonshine I have to say I definitely agree with deb she couldnt have put it any other way. 010121 ... Thyartshallshant it's_funny Im not to happy with you, you couldn't even respect my honeymoon, so I have nothing to say to you. 010121 ... j_blue i guess there are non-professional blatherers, blathering oh well 010122 ... god i got a cat named tonya. i couldn't let her eat that bird. i couldn't let that happen. 010122 ... kendera oh yes, this is what i had craved. a little feistiness, a little personality, hostility, agressiveness, and contemplation, all prompted of course. on the other hand, remember when a person could blather about something and another blather person reading it would know, you know, just know the other blatherer enough that the blathe was in no way meant to be directed to anyone in particular. that they were using blather as a canvas and the words were a painting of something that deserved only about 2 second of one's glance? yet the painting was still considered as art or quality or whatever, not spewed junk? wsedrcftgbvnhjmk,l;lkjfldfkh;adjghkvm. sigh.ertfgyhujiokl. 010123 ... startfires what did ever happen to typhoid? hmmm. 010126 ... deb and where's jennifer? i saw her- she's not out of town... did she revolt? 010126 ... .sunshine. blather. i do it when i feel inspired. i don't write to make others think i write what i think. 010505 ... MollyGoLightly it's not a constant thing that doesn't change. it's completely defined by the people who use it. it's the sum of its parts. 010722 ... black-dyed gel product I miss the days when blather was interesting. You know, the time before I showed up. 010722 ... redneckk oh shit 010722 ... baby satan so THAT's what happened! redneckk shat on blather! makes sense. 010722 ... sarpedon I too miss it's Mysterios poetic beauty, With people speaking From different life experiences But all sharing the same emotions. 020104 ... god it's always sucked just a bit. you'll have that 030526 ... User24 I'll tell you what happened; people started bitching instead of blathering. 030527 ... Syrope people are eventually going to stop reading my blathers. they're too damned long and don't make any sense. i remember when my_blather changed...it was the first time someone replied to something i wrote saying that it expressed something they were feeling. suddenly i wasn't just rambling and marveling at how perfectly other_people said what i felt...i was being read and related to *sigh* memoorriieeeess 030528 ... blather asshole i'll tell you what happened to your blather: blatherskites fucking around with the formatting seven million test pages recent_blather becoming the be-all and end-all, with few 'skites who aren't veterans bothering to read anything more than a month old the few 'skites who blathe not to watch others flock to their page, but just to blathe, don't say all that much quality sits sulking in a corner, beaten, bloodied, while quantity waves its flaccid pikestaff around in victorious contempt we're getting dangerously close to message board territory, and this place used to be so much more than that thankfully, there are still countless buried blathes no one has decimated, but many of their authors are now resting in the blather_graveyard yes, blather is an ever-changing, shapeless thing, but the overall quality of what it's currently become sits somewhere between mediocrity and inanity but hey, blather_is_blather, and it's only dumb fucks like me who don't care much for its current incarnation kisses :.: shoots self in head and joins the others in the blather_graveyard :.: 030630 ... endless desire it's kind of sad. reading the pages of times long long long before i was around and almost missing something i was never apart of. it seems there are a lot of test pages and silly blathes but it's ridiculous just to go join the blather_graveyard. i guess blather is just changing and growing. who knows what it will be on the other side. 030630 ... splat the dead of blather have a refuge in red 030630 ... YOU people are ruining it with your stupid complaints about how its turning into a message board, and i know, but there are too many people to stop it. so shut up. 030630 ... User24 if you want to resurrect the 'old blather' start making interesting blathes. I notice that no-one contributed to blathes_that_make_you_think wonder why, could it be that you like the feeling of community, the elite 'old ones' saying how wonderful it was, and not doing anything to try to revert it, stop bitching about it and start provoking thoughts, you all liked it better when you signed your name on a thought, and no-one argued, now, there's a lot more people, blather has become cool, and everyone's got an opinion, some more valid, some less, but, to quote birdmad for the second time in this blathe, "there's enough room for everyone" how true. so you've got to make a choice, do you hole yourself up, moaning about how everyone's just copying your style, and how what was once alternative is now open to so many, or do you start making blather better? There's no way you can stop everything that's 'wrong' with blather, but if you're that pissed off at it, don't add to it. 2 wrongs don't make a right. I agree that it would be nice if blather was more thoughtful, more intellectual, but I think that we can talk shit and talk sense in the same place.. blather is not like a coffee shop that's been invaded by the masses, it's like a town. lots of coffee shops have sprung up, with trendy guys hanging out and not much else, simply because it's the place to be. but the old collectors music shops that smell of cardboard are waiting down the alleyways, with like minded people browsing through 80's cds, chatting about this and that. and the old hangouts are still there, it's just that the view's been spoiled a bit recently. stop hanging around the trendy coffee shops saying how crap they are and start a revolution. (or stfu and accept the change gracefully) 030701 ... User24 !and another thing! you think it's full of crap now, right? today, 3 years ago: 01 july 1999, back when good ol' blather was around, right? let's take a look through the wayback machine; -------------- blathe: 'Canadian' It's like the fifty-first state or something. They have snow and junk. Damn non-Californians with their damn snow and junk. ... the border has been peaceful for a hundred years or something. after the "aroostook war" or something like that. it's fairly pretty though. but canadians get to have those cool accents. my accent is a mixture of new york, california, british, and cuban :) gotta love florida. ... The last war we had with the States, we won. I don't think that record would really stay so unsullied if we tried again, say, right now. But I can still say it. ... My friend Andrew is Canadian, and he has the cutest accent ever. He says "bean" for "been" (but he says I say "Ben" for "been"). And Canada also has better candy bars than we do. In addition, all packaging is in French and English, so I can feel continental... when really, I'm just schlepping around Windsor's shoreline. ... i'm canadian. i am canadian. i'm glad i have to take french in school. i'm glad we have gun laws and i don't have to pass a metal detector to get into school. i don't know anyone who lives in an igloo. i think our flag is pretty. i have american friends and i like them. ... Canada kicks ass. By speaking french, I can say things like «vous parlez trop de merde» and none of you now what the hell I'm saying! Persoannly, I haven't seen too many differnces between the coutries, we all surf the same internet, watch basically the same TV shows, listen to the same music and so on.... ... But I do understand what you're saying. I took French for six years. Broadened my love for croissants. ... why do americans feel this driving need to comment on the so called canadian accent? is it a peculiarity of the american ear drum that causes them to hear "aboot" where "about" was spoken? the only accent i've ever heard give that spin to the word was scottish, which we ain't. --------------------- hmm.. deep. let's go to candidate number two; --------------------- blathe: 'click' the most important navigational tool ever! ... the subtle sound of a lock or a gun. --------------------- I'm speechless. --------------------- blathe: 'me' say whatever. ... i invariably end up using the word me far more than i should. me likes cake, me likes cookies, whatever, i just say it too much. ... There's something ironic about me trying to figure out how to keep from fixating on myself. And it's quite frustrating. Not that fixating on anyone else would do me any good. ... yellow ... a name i call myself. ... it would be the sound between rae and fa, except for the fact that i think it is spelled different. i should know, i was in choir for seven years. ... is all that I ever will be. Changing constantly but always me. Whatever I may be. ... is what i become when you look at me. ... gypsy dreamer universal sprit lost somewhere in there ... look at me! ... depressive daydreamer, doesn't have a clue nor a plan and even makes typos all the time. ... and you would look good in an silverado speeding through new jersey going anywhere as long as it's away from new york. ... doin' my thing. Yeah that thing. do do do that thing thing thing ... now wee ... myself and I ... it stands for "myself" but it's also a part of my name! whee! ... or you? ... the chilled winds blowing through the eased darkness of my being while flowing out of my heart of my pen in gobbling blobs and globs of thick mindstuff and detritus the passion’s fire searing and rearing my bloodstreams into boiling fervor and tearing into my soul in a rape-like voracious frenzy leaving me violated, timeless, breathless, exquisite the wandering minds of selves’ alter-egos drifting in and out of my body stealing time, conscious, humanities to emanate pure void and artistic ecstasy, souldrive and beat-grind compounded into a swirling and twirling and whirling mass: the me. ... that is i said the fly ... click me -------------- now that was a little better, some poetry in there, not bad, but still, those annoying newbies are around, aren't they; "a name i call myself" -------------- blathe: 'jake' oh, TEEEgress. that's a cool name for a cat." ... a bottle of everclear? why? ... fireballs? you've got to be kidding? do you think i'm gonna be party to you burning your eyebrows off. hmpf! well, maybe. :) ... another name for a police officer... -------------- well, that's great. -------------- blathe: 'ecstacy' yellow, yellow, yellow... ... stumbling towards it? ... something that makes people exclaim it's all one! we're all one! don't you get it? ... it's a drug, but it can also be acheived without drugs. i've been known to do it once or twice. ... is that warm fuzzy feeling deep inside. it's there somewhere. i promise. ... i admit that i am an E junkie! ... I did E once and fell in love with it. It was a really strange high, but made me feel amazing. Ecstasy is something that is achievable without drugs tho. it's total happiness. the best feeling in the pit of your stomach. it's hard to achieve, and once you do, you sometimes don't even realise how great it is... ... is a little pill I will probably try for the first time this weekend. Acid was last weekend and it was too fun. Mustn't go too far down this road, though. -------------- so there's always been druggies on blather, nice to know that -------------- blathe: 'just' it's all just. But nothing- that's just it. ... the right thing, the just thing is the just thing always right? just do the right thing ... me, nothing special, nothing to get excited about, it's just me, something to hurt. something to leave. ... barely, clinging by toenails, paper thin, nearly not, whispered memory, imagined. ... is a bull hish conceptstrung together by the weak who aren't getting their "just desserts." fuck just, i like only better. ... nothing more ... you do it to yourself you do, and thats what really hurts -------------- again, better, but still no revelations -------------- blathe: 'dare' i don't understand dare. -------------- wow. -------------- blathe: 'candle' that's got to be one of the saddest things i've ever heard -------------- ok. -------------- blathe: 'yeah' Yo! ... HELL, yeah ... yeah means yes and cool ok. Grandma says "Say YES. Don't mumble." so I say yeah ok, noncommital-like. way to respond in a spaced out daze ... sure thing -------------- now, I'm not trying to say that blather is any better now, I'm just thinking that maybe blather has always been like this, just there's more people now. unless you can point me to a day where ideas flowed like water, deep thought was provoked hourly, and the mental energy was fizzing? maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places? 030701 ... carlita well said, user24. i am new to blather, and i don't know how it was in the "good ol' days". i do, however, appreciate the more thoughtful blathes, and get slightly annoyed by reading through countless "message board-type" ones. just as everyone found blather differently, everyone perceives blather differently, and will then blather differently. that's the beauty of it. make blather what YOU want it to be, and ignore the rest if it bothers you that much. but... what do i know, i'm a newbie. 030701 ... carlita ok... honestly, i wrote that blathe before user24's last entry that referenced newbies. i hope everyone understands my sarcasm. 030701 ... User24 and mine. 030701 ... karl the weed ok, thank you user24 for putting up a very good point. youve also made me decide that im going to try not to post stupid and useless things as much. however, all that crap is part of blather. i wouldnt likeit as much if it was ALL poetry and thoughts, nor would i like it if it was all crap. people should just let blather be. dammit 030701 ... User24 yeah, me too, I'm learning to love the nevermind link 030701 ... x Over time, I've seen that most people who start out as obnoxious generally get tamed and refined with blather time. They eventually acknowledge it. 030701 ... kss my blather got stuck in the vacuum cleaner once, and it made the belt break. stupid blather. 030701 ... Eowithien I hope people remember that blather is a good place someday. That its not out to get you. That you're safe here. It hasn't changed since I began blathing, though that was only about two years ago and I took about a year off. I have done a comparitively little amount of blathing, which makes me sad and inspires me to continue finding more. Go blather, go. Pleh, useless... I'm trying to contribute! 040226 ... falling_alone i like the inane chats that let me not to have to think so hard. 040226 ... dingoes ate my baby i ate it. the inane chats bug the hell out of me sometimes (see: aw, hell, too many to list), but i get prickly easily, and though i explode, i wouldn't have the whole do_as_thou_wilt thing be any different. 040227 ... white_wave what happened to that blather entitled: more_blather_from_2.am or something like that. i wanted to say that if i didn't stop writing it would actually be 2 a.m. Currently it's 1:15. Need zzzzzzzzzz'z Hate working Saturday 040228 ... meta meta 060515 ... oren Silly person. It's MY blather! 060515 ... Christ without the cross Okay. I have read this hold page and I feel inspired to do something about this. I do think some of you are 'bitching' but i understand your bitchiness. But it does kind of remind of how people live life. People bitch. Seldom do they do something about it. Seldom do they get out there and create a new better moment that fits their endless dissatisfactions and make them satisfactory. So don't bitch. Create. Be bold. Make blather 'great'. Whatever your view of great is make it be. How much people can find something deep to say about sandwich. There is a challenge. Deepen that. Make it poetic. Make it cool and blather-ish, whatever that it is. You loved your party of ten. Then maybe you thought that you were the best human beings have to offer. That's okay. I have no argument there. But get off your rusty asses and be the best. Make it happen and stop bitching about mediocrity. YOU people are interesting. I am new. I have only been here for less than a week. Today is September 30 2006. I have found a lot of deep stuff. I have also found things that made me laugh. I think i have grown sevenfold since I have been here. So if anyone is unhappy with what blather has become it will be okay. I will live in my own happiness. Maybe i might bitch lata. Maybe not. I don't bitch often so it probably won't be that serious. Love you guys!!!!!! 060930 ... No Stalgia Here I think it is funny that after a mere 2.5 years of existence, skites were already "nostalgic" for a bygone "blathing era". That first post is dated Jan-01!!! People become nostalgic so quickly these days. Why, I'm practically nostalgic for this very moment. 060930 what's it to you? who go blather from