Happy Groundhog Day!

I guess Phil has predicted 6 more weeks of winter. But Buckeye Chuck, our local marmot, says we will have an early spring. I have to say that Buckeye Chuck has historically been fairly accurate. And the fact that I’m so fucking sick of winter already makes me like Chuck much more than Phil.

Next in my "Death of OD" series:

Years ago, in 2001, my friend sent me the link to bored.com. Like so many others, that’s how I found OD. At first, it was not my intent to record my life here. I thought I might post some funny stories or some poetry. I figured I’d remain anonymous. Instead, as I opened up my life and began to write about real life stuff, I made friends here. I have no less than 20 ODers over on facebook, all of whom I consider friends. I’ve met I think 3 of yous in person, one of you I met in person twice. This was, no doubt, more than just a website. It was a community.

I have been harsh to Bruce lately. I don’t apologize for that. I remember way back when, when he did the big upgrade, adding a bunch of features, many people freaked out on him that the site wasn’t working, when in reality, they just didn’t understand how to navigate the site with all the changes. I defended him then, I thanked him then for his hard work. But let’s face it, he hasn’t done any hard work on this site in ages. I will not thank him again. I will not thank him for the past… what, 9 years? I remember him being present here on OD in 2004, after the hacker attacks, but after that, I don’t remember.

Anyway, I feel strongly that my harshness is deserved. This community that held him up in times of need us has been neglected, abandoned by him. Now he’s throwing us out like garbage. Whatever, fuck him. Seriously, fuck him. 

I went over to his last entry today and read all the notes. Tons and tons of [undeserved, imo] thank-yous, fuck-yous, pleas to sell the site or reconsider killing it, and so on. I read every single one of them. I had refrained from commenting on the post myself for days, but this day, after reading all those comments, I had to say something:
 
OH MY GOD!! HE DOESN’T CARE, OK? He hasn’t given a **** about this community in years! Do you think he’s even reading all these notes? Really? Jeebus.  [Lobbastah]

The * * * * btw was "shit," though "fuck" would work too. Actually, "damn" would work too. But "shit" is what I actually typed. I forgot that Bruce is a Quaker or something. Curse words hurt his eyes.

I personally love curse words. I was planning to write an entire entry about the word "cunt." But I digress.

The entire point of most of my OD-only entries these days is simply this: FUCK YOU, BRUCE.