Hoonk

 In my September 28 posting, "Whoo-Haw", I wrote:

Otherwise, I am most active on Substack, Twitter, and my chat room on Paltalk called "We Love Thought Crimes" (located in the Christianity section).

Alas, I no longer have a chat room on Paltalk—well, I do, but it's just the husk of a shell of its former self (renamed The Eleven Four Room, after a Paul Desmond piece called Eleven Four on the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Countdown: Time in Outer Space).  At best, about 9 people may be there, 7 of them comatose.  Mostly, it's about 5.  

At any rate, I gave up, after 6 years of trying to grow a room.  The question is not why did I give up—but why I lasted so long.

 

Note to self: re: my annual posting on The Hesperado

 Definitely link this -- an essay I wrote in February of 2018 regarding my final decision to pack up.

https://cafebleu-o.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-ark-of-mankind.html

 

Glaze over

Clamber (I even corrected that just now when I misspelled it)

 

Two interesting phenomena (which I'll no doubt mention if not go into at moderate length [perhaps] when I publish my annual February 21 posting at my old carcass of a blog, The Hesperado) burgeoning & bubbling up this past year:  an unprecedently overt anti-Semitism -- unprecedented for the past 80-odd years, that is; and b) a general disinclination in the Two Mainstreams (the broader Western Mainstream and the Alt-Mainstream, the latter of which is on its way to merge with, if not supplant, the former) to mention this (with the exception of various Jews at various venues).

 

The problem with donuts is, they get stale and brick-hard awfully quickly.  Sure, at that point, they may be okay for coffee-dunking; but that's about it.

 

I love these pathetic, near-empty, cheap donut shops. This is where I'd like to have a spirited discussion, over coffee & donuts, with approximately two other relatively intelligent folks about various topics of interest.

 

I've been trying for over 6 years now to grow a chat room on Paltalk into a kind of room that has reliably frequent (at least once a day for 2-3 hours) interesting & relatively mature conversations among 4 or more people.  Trying is the operative word.  With a few exceptions spaced apart by months of death (or false activity), I've not really succeeded.  (My current room name there is "Bored Again Christians".)

 

The problem with an "Alt-Peasants Unite!" movement is the peasants part -- by definition unable to galvanize a movement. 

Goombye.