The Textheavy Days
Mere words cannot express how much I miss Fireland. I don’t even miss Josh. Screw that guy. He shares a birthday with me but what’s that amount to in beers? Five. What I miss is myself enjoying Fireland and watching the designs change every week. I miss what Fireland means, not only in the sociopolitical context in which we find ourselves, but in the ways we web-folk once strove to achieve that Firelandic holism, that feeling of sinking into a body of text set in a periwinkle colour scheme and never wanting to come up for air. The me who could not comprehend the brilliance of the mind behind the Fireland FAQ is not the same me, though the brilliance remains unsolved. Those were heady times. Blogs weren’t all that interesting back then, but they were new. Today, blogs are still that, but Fireland is beyond trends, for that would imply Fireland is subject to the circumscriptions of time. Fireland is the best website ever made by a Josh, and the Josh in question is marriedsville now so he’ll probably write about gas grills and universal remotes and joint custody instead of people choking the shit out of each other with their words while Jesus watches. Please consider this my message to Josh, wherever he is. These are Desperate Hours, and they don’t taste so good anymore.
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And also: I wish I lived in Montreal. I also wish that I was fluent in French, in several languages, actually.
Oh sure, defend him…
Montreal is good fun, though I should warn you that there are about five months of the year where you definitely do not want to live here. My French is far from fluent, also. I find it’s tough to learn it by osmosis here. Are you guys still Maine-iacs?
So weird. I was doing a search for “textheavy” to see whether people actually use the term, and I come across this reference to Fireland, which, back in the day when I was actually doing something interesting with textheavy.com, was one of my (almost-) daily visits on the Web.
I also miss The Burning Itch, and Jim’s Scratchpaper.com. I wanted to be part of the excitement too. Too bad I’m too lazy to write.
Nick Taylor…Hmmm…didn’t I meet you in the Sega store at the Metreon in San Francisco? Did we go virtual bowling with Jim Park up on the second floor? Maybe I’m thinking of someone else.
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