I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allen Poe

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so
-Bertrand Russell

What I have been telling you, from alpha to omega, what is the one great thing the sigil taught me — that everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken at will from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. If the sigil were proved to be the top of a tomato-can, it would not alter that big fact, nor my fixed faith. No Harrowby, the common names we call things by do not matter — except to show how very dull we are ...
-James Branch Cabell

October 18, 2009 - 5:16 p.m.

Farewell FHDC

What am I going to write about today? I have nothing planned and I didn't do anything to write about. The weather has been miserable and I've been keeping warm and dry in my apartment. This is when I really miss my trench coat. I need a new one ASAP. Anyone know a place I can get a vintage one in the City? What do I want? Humphrey Bogart's coat from Casablanca. I want the hat too.


When I went online to find that photo I also found what I'm going to write about.

When I first went online I used AOL. I used their browser and didn't choose a start page. When I finally started using my own browser I chose Fr�head.com as my start page. It is where I spent the most time. It is where I made the bulk of my online friends. It is where I did my socializing. I'd stay up half the night talking to people. I was always active. I started forums, I suggested polls, It was my place of online business. Moxy Fr�vous stopped touring in 2001 and people started drifting away. I stayed and I stayed and I stayed. It was my online security blanket. The other day I fired up firefox and found I was the only one on FHDC. That defeats the purpose of a social networking site. So just now I finally pulled the trigger and changed my start page to Facebook. It is where I spend my time now but it isn't the same. It isn't a community. I rarely meet people there. I don't get involved in long discussions. It doesn't feel like the Little Rascals clubhouse.

My social life was never better than FHDC's heyday. For years I would talk to two people every day, Carey and Leah, both Fr�heads. When I was in the hospital I got calls from around the world. They were all from Fr�heads. To this day if I road trip the odds are that I'm staying with a Fr�head. When I started blogging all of my readers were Fruheads. I know it isn't true anymore but when I think of my Gentle Readers that is the audience I think of.

I'm moving on but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. I miss Fr�heads far more than I miss Fr�vous. It was a unique confluence of people and events. I can't go looking for a replacement. It has to happen naturally.

In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.



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