Have We Lost Our Sonic Youth?

Post by **Sonic Youth** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:43 am

criddic3 wrote:
After his rants on Criddic, I would be sadddened if he had been THAT offended by it.

I, too, miss having Sonic Youth around. The conversations/debates/misunderstandings were all in good fun (that's true in general, by the way).

Well, then I obviously am doing something wrong.

Post by **criddic3** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:27 am

After his rants on Criddic, I would be sadddened if he had been THAT offended by it.

I, too, miss having Sonic Youth around. The conversations/debates/misunderstandings were all in good fun (that's true in general, by the way).

Post by **Penelope** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:31 pm

Sonic, glad to see you back with us; wish you had said hello in St. Pete, woulda been nice to meet you, but it's all good!

Post by **anonymous1980** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:24 am

I'm glad to see you're alive, Sonic Youth.

Post by **OscarGuy** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:02 pm

But get registered to vote NOW so that you dont' have the Pub(e)s trying to toss out your registration.

Post by **Damien** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:32 pm

Good to have you back. And look on the bright side, as a citizen of Pennsylvania, you get to vote against Rick Santorum.

Post by **Sonic Youth** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 11:44 am

Big Magilla wrote:I thought that he was either a) traveling; b) burned out or c) pissed off over the negative reaction to his Superman Returns posts. If it's the latter, hope he gets over it soon.

All of the above. As annoying as the Superman discussion was, it was magnified by everything else that was happening in our lives. And I decided "I've been here for years. I think it's time for a short vackay."

I was the opposite of depressed of the prospects of living in The Netherlands. I was exuberant. The two months we lived there were wonderful. But that didn't pan out, thanks to a petty, malicious boss who didn't appreciate my wife's ascendency in the company.

In eighteen months, we've lived in New Haven Connecticut; The Netherlands; St. Petersburg, Florida; and we've finally settled in Altoona, Pennsylvania, which looks to be our permanent home. Which area sounds the least inspiring and interesting to you? You're right. And I didn't want to mention we were in St. Petersburg because I was very close to Penelope, and I didn't want to meet Penelope until we were settled. And we never were truly settled, so that was that.

Tee, I think you'll see that post at The Envelope is the only thing I posted there for a long period of time. This Mel Gibson thing is getting twice, if not three times, the amount of coverage it deserves. He's a bigot and an anti-semite, what a surprise. Big deal. James Woods and John Malkovich make equally disgusting comments about Arabs and Iraqis and hardly anyone blinks. But it's very amusing for a day or so and I impulse-posted it there.

Nice to see you guys again. But I'm gonna lay low for another month or so, out of necessity. I'm much too busy.

I'll be back.

Post by **OscarGuy** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:11 pm

I hope it's not the Superman Returns thing. It was a might silly the way all of us were acting. After his rants on Criddic, I would be sadddened if he had been THAT offended by it.

Post by **Big Magilla** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:19 pm

I thought that he was either a) traveling; b) burned out or c) pissed off over the negative reaction to his Superman Returns posts. If it's the latter, hope he gets over it soon.

Post by **Reza** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:27 pm

Wasn't there some mystery of Sonic being depressed because he was in a foreign country courtesy of his wife?

Or maybe I got it all wrong. However, I recall him being very mysterious about that foreign country! All very cloak and dagger!

Anyway I hope he is feeling better now.

Post by **Mister Tee** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:55 am

Sonic hasn't been posting around here recently, and I've been assuming he was otherwise occupied. Now, however, I see that he started a Mel Gibson thread the other day at the envelope -- a topic he'd have been all over (with us) at any normal time. Did I miss something? Has Sonic left us for some reason? If not, I hope he'll check in at some point.

Actually, it seems we've been losing too many valued posters, lately. Granted it's the deep off-season, but we've heard little from Sabin, Pamela-Marie has disappeared, MovieWes took off, Penelope is now incommunicado for a while...those who remain are of course solid (and apprecited), but I hate to see so many distinctive contributors slip away.

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