Why So Quiet Around Here?

[DOR]

NateBizzo said:

I'm still down for the cause.

More Bizzo post around these parts would be a welcome sight.


Also to note. I, much like Jimster enjoy the semi anonymous nature around these parts. Where people don't take themselves too serious and post for shits n giggles. But mixed with anyone's opinion or knowledge.

 

[Electrode]

I still love this place but other immersive hobbies such as fishing, a newly found social life and a fiancée have consumed a lot of my time and put records and this place on the back burner. Plus my cell phone is the only access I have to the Internet now and I have to be selective when I use it (frowned on at work, constant use NAGL for my girl). Facebook will never replace SS. And the only reason why I am still on that nonsense is because family members are hopelessly hooked and I am forced to check in when asked nauseating, whiny questions such as, "why didn't you 'like'/see my post?!?". So yeah, I'm still here.

 

[NateBizzo]

DOR said:



NateBizzo said:

I'm still down for the cause.

More Bizzo post around these parts would be a welcome sight.


Also to note. I, much like Jimster enjoy the semi anonymous nature around these parts. Where people don't take themselves too serious and post for shits n giggles. But mixed with anyone's opinion or knowledge.





What would you like me to talk about?

 

[billbradley]

I still read daily and post when I can but for the past week I was in Vegas for the DEFCON hacker conference and didn't read at all.



I hope that you continue to keep the site active though Raj. There are some good people still hanging out here.

p.s. You're photos on the road have been great.

 

[asstro]

I've been here since the beginning and I still check in at least once a day. I don't post a lot but I never really didso that is no reflection on the current State o|Of The Strut. I made it habit to think before I posted (lest I be roasted) back in the days when this place was really on fire and I still work that way. But as I have said before I am Strut 4 Life.

 

[RAJ]

billbradley said:



p.s. You're photos on the road have been great.






@billbradley

Thank you! I still have loads to post too.

If anyone else is curious, you can view them here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rajsoulstrut/

 

[ManItsAHighCastle]

bassie2 said:



Jimster said
The Hatters have gone as far as I can see. Maybe I just have a thick skin.







They have but what you see today is the result of their stay.

Because one definitely didn't need thick skin to be on the Board before, right? I have no idea when you joined but people would actually go on other boards to complain about how mean SS was. Few newbies lasted. A poster said he wanted to punch me in the ovaries. It was so accommodating here, we never had more than five women posting at any given time. This is not about hurt feelings but the culture of the place. But you tell'em, tough guy.

 

[deezlee]

This site (yes, largly in the archives) has a knowledge, flavor and style unmatched on the web. Apparently there was a time years ago when politics was messing up the board but I don't see it recently at all. If you want to see shitty political commentary you can find more of it anywhere/everywhere else in the Internet. I mean how's your Facebook feed looking these days.
Like I said we owe the site's goodness to the OGs (thanks for that foreal!) but the only time that I visit this site and get a bad vibe is when the OGs show up to complain about haters again.

 

[DOR]

NateBizzo said:




DOR said:



NateBizzo said:

I'm still down for the cause.

More Bizzo post around these parts would be a welcome sight.


Also to note. I, much like Jimster enjoy the semi anonymous nature around these parts. Where people don't take themselves too serious and post for shits n giggles. But mixed with anyone's opinion or knowledge.





What would you like me to talk about?


Any records you're still on the hunt for?

Places you still want to ride you've never been?

Any great food spots down your way?

Anything new or exciting going on in your life you would like to share with a semi anonymous strutter?

 

[twoply]

I'm just here because Reddit is down.

But really, I'm glad this place is still here. I like to get my nostalgia fix a few times a year, plus the mix section is still fire.

 

[YOUNG_EINSTEIN]

Still in the game.
although it is quite complicated to post from my phone.

peace, stein...

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

twoply said:

I'm just here because Reddit is down.

But really, I'm glad this place is still here. I like to get my nostalgia fix a few times a year, plus the mix section is still fire.



Have I just been looking in the wrong parts of Reddit? I can't find anything even approaching 1% of Strut or Waxidermy's taste/knowledge/depth in the vinyl etc. boards there. 30 dollar Fleetwood reissue sweating for dayzzzz whenever I've looked.

 

[batmon]

 

[Big_Stacks]

Hey,

I was out-of-town briefly to attend a conference in Anaheim. I'll have to floss my Amoeba Records (Hollywood) finds on here in a separate thread. As has been the case since 2003, I visit the 'Strut on a daily basis. It's a part of my life, viva la Soul Strut!!! By the way, here's a tour of Stacks Laboratories:

https://youtu.be/SdLa3HgZVo8

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[Danno3000]

bassie2 said:

It was superpoaster (who was the resident

punching bag until he got semi famous as Jesse Futerman and then he was the Board’s

darling. You know how it is.). Lots of people saw it and asked for him to be

banned. I don’t remember supporting his ban to be honest – don’t recall if he was or not. He said he was sorry and all that.


It was aggressive passive aggression in that misogynist nerd way. The board was

full of them.









My point was more to question the notion of that

all one requires is thick skin to weather a group of people who change the

whole atmosphere of a place when thick skin was a requirement for just logging

on!







Anyway, the Board is not for me anymore. I am

putting in my two cents as to why off the subject heading. In no way am I

saying shut it down.



Without excusing Jesse's atrocious statement, which I most certainly don't, he was maybe 15 when he was saying that shit.

 

[Danno3000]

Don't we have one of these posts every six months?

Anyway, SS for life. There's not much conversation here, granted, but I hope that everything being cyclical, in five years we'll all be back on the forum and it will be an ss renaissance.

 

[para11ax]

batmon said:

Plaese to elaborate

 

[Jimster]

para11ax said:





batmon said:

Plaese to elaborate



We couldn't handle the elaboration?

 

[Jimster]

Srs doe, no-one is blessing us with the footwear game right now.

COMETH THE HOUR...

 

[BallzDeep]

The political threads were an awful look.Any conservative post by Rock or Sabadabada would be met with searing and often downright rude retorts from pretty much everyone else. Who was the dude who got banned and then made a blog about it?