Why is Solo dead?
for the same reasons punk rock is I suppose
no, not really of course
you might say that the solo site's fortunes ebb and flow with those of Morrissey
however, I really do not think of the site that way
for me the site is always dead when I am not here, because it only really exists when I am here reading it
this is not 100% true, but could easily becomes so for me at least
ok, just for me, but for all of us who really should be doing better things with our time than being here
the site should really be the domain of:
older Morrissey fans who are likely married with kids
younger teenage fans still not free yet to be adults
& well, there are some other people who just need places like Solo so much!
so I am glad there is a little life in Solo still
even though its mostly dead to me right now and is something I have found far less funny or witty to read in a long time now
but that is not why I stay away, I contribute to a deader Solo because I really do have better things to do like all the time
even right now there is the post it stuck to the left edge of my screen which says:
"
Don't you have better things to do than go on Solo?"
that note has helped me not to waste at least hours for sure for over a month now
and I have enjoyed most of the other things which resulted from me not visiting here
when i was away in New Zealand i was without not only all my real friends here, but all the routines of my life as well
at the time i needed these things to feel secure
so i came to lean on Solo for something to make me not feel so homesick, which is absurd, but finding that out was very profound moment for me
honestly, i doubt Solo will ever top that
instead i will continue to ask myself that question i have here looking back at me even as i type this
sometimes the post-it wins and I log on here(burning away another hour or more better spent elsewhere)
which, in the grand scheme of things, is really nothing, but i dont feel like i even get credit for that
also, i personally would like to thanks
yesitis & some others to a lesser degree for coming on here and honestly talking about drinking in one way or another
times like that have repeatedly blessed me with 2 very different gifts which i really appreciate
one is being drunk online at a site where others are as well, this has a "bar like" friendly feel which is nice to get when you are drinking
then there are other times, on here, where i have read some stuff other drunk people wrote and well, thats the kind of thing that makes me put the bottle back down, again, with it still unopened...
I shot my (solo post) wad over the last year or so...
