RIPservations

As (long) ~~promised~~ threatened, Alex Whitlock has officially shut down his blog.

And what makes it so bad is that he went out with such a bang -- lots of great posts over the last 24 hours.

I enjoyed Alex's blog not so much for the political commentary (really, the strictly political blogs just aren't my cup of tea these days) but for the wit and the personal nature of the stuff. His "letters to people who don't read my blog" were always hilarious. And the music reviews -- good gawd, what an asset to a town that allegedly has no live music scene and no music press! And yeah, I tended to agree with the dude's political commentary. No secret there.

Thank goodness it was around for a while. Because I would never have gotten to know one Mr. R. Alex Whitlock otherwise, and that would have been a shame. And I would probably not have become such a devoted fan of the Firehouse (Alex's second home) without his persuasion, because several years ago the place just wasn't as good as it is now and I hadn't given it a chance more recently.

But just one request, Alex -- somehow, you have to get these new blogs set up so that your personal posts are aggregated somewhere. That shouldn't be too hard to do. And then maybe a little php wizardry and I can come up with my OWN aggregated version of RAWbservations (albeit drawn from several blogs).

Hey, I'm a typical pushy blog reader. But it's good to have fans, right?

[Posted at 06:53 CST on 01/31/03] [Link]