Longtime ILXors - how has this board changed over time?

lance ruled. also the 70s HS yearbook chicks or was that the same thread

don't feel bad, i mean, i don't understand most of what goes down on ILM, and i listen to and write about a lot of music!

ah, lance

same thread I think

a classic

xpost

i'm feeling like use SNA more may help me with my ILM problem, but maybe/prob not

@ rrrrrrrrrrobyn : i dont feel bad.

just locked out of a secret world.

however, now i have had a skinny peek, i suspect it would in the end bore the f*ck out of me.

I've been here since 2005 and have mostly been ghettoized in my own little ilx world, but it has been such a long time that i feel more or less comfortable here if not only because i've just been hanging out in the corner watching people for 7 years.

all my snark about british football jokes is because i feel locked out of a secret world iirc xp

i know you don't feel bad :)
xp

there are always keys to secret worlds
in your ~mind~

@ la lechera : 'lo !

feels likes such a different world since you and je55e introduced me to some weird f*cked up drink in chicago ...

hi!
not much has changed here, it'll feel like the same old chicago if/when you return :)

will never happen.

soon after i returned to normal life the company realised just how much fun i had had, and so closed any such funk down ..

hey ho ...

all my snark about british football jokes is because i feel locked out of a secret world iirc

the british football threads are tremendously funny on the occasion i peek in -- i wish i knew enough to keep up with it/fully understand

jordan levy just got married by the way. speaking of high school picture threads.

I have these vague memories of posting high and/or drunk around 2006 and the epic levels of smackdown I would receive still sting.

And then there's that fun thing where people ask who I am even though I've been posting since like 04, too many usernames I guess.

"i don't even know who you are"

All those sockpuppets that you thought were somebody else, that was me.

except for the ones that were me

16 hours a day, locked in a basement with towering stacks of pizza boxes, got the 6 monitor rig going.

Dom/Jess/Ethan days were fearsome especially after such a nice, almost twee beginning

it was bollocks though

These days the only guy who makes fun of me is a magazine editor, I feel like I've moved up in the world.

"magazine"

lol

I never followed/understood what the deal was with Dom but I could not stand Ethan, that guy was an asshole

so just to be clear there is not actually a clusterfuck happening itt?

not yet

what, you got something to say?

sometimes u fire a particular gun enough, next time u want to start a clusterfuck u've run out of bullets

If I remember correctly Ethan had both great taste in rap and IDM, that's the most positive thing I can think of.

i'm saying that key clusterfuck contributors are probably asleep now xp

that's the most positive thing u can say about him, or of all the positive things you can think of to say, you think good taste in rap + IDM is the most positive? xp

towards the end ethan was hilarious and relatively good-natured iirc

lots of classic 77 ethan threads

agree that ethan became pretty cool towards the end, but shakey otm for the most part

i kinda bypassed ethan almost entirely on ilx. i just never interacted with him. i guess we travelled in different circles. he didn't go on noize board at all i don't think. he's my facebook friend though. along with chaki and jon and roger adultery. a veritable rogues gallery.

X-post I never really got on his bad side but I steered clear of early era rap threads precisely because of him.

Actually I still stay out of goon threads despite listening to almost as much rap as they do.

what you don't like watching deej and Whiney call each other names

that's what hip hop is all about iirc

i guess i favor interesting/charismatic over civil/boring when it comes to ilx personas and will forgive certain unpleasantries along those lines. dom never struck me as interesting/charismatic though. you know who i miss who is an "asshole?" history mayne.

i am such a massive voyeur.

ethan had some insightful things to say but it was a bit HS canteen after a while

his interaction with ppl that is

see someone revived that beth parker thread and i was just thinking of her and how i have almost no contact with her at all anymore. she never even posts anything on facebook. and we saw her all the time when we lived on the vineyard and she's one of maria's best friends from there. we kinda got her hooked on ilx. maybe she hasn't forgiven us.

i never had anything to do with dom either. i never understood his controversial status. just never went on threads he was on. they were all like britpop or melody maker threads, i guess? i have no idea.

someone 'explained' dom to me the other day, i didn't quite know who he was, i think in 30 years it will be like when tales were told of legendary highwaymen & poachers who lived in a simpler time, whose mythic status we still puzzle over, intersect with

beth parker seemed like a good neighbor, she started that classic post-pictures-of-art-on-yr-walls thread. OTOH remember ann sterzinger?

maybe I am sexist. but susan douglas was one of my all-time faves, even if she was a momus sockpuppie

god, ann. wow. she was a reg on i love books for a while. she was something...

There was a very brief period when a handful of Chicago Reader staffers -- Ann, Br1an Nemtus@k, and M@rtha B@yne -- were posting semiregularly. I can't quite remember what prompted it, though I think it might have to do with the fact that Kenan was buddies with ex-Reader writer Neal Pollack.

so i can blame kenan for ann? haha! just kidding. kinda. we lost an ann but we gained an excellent james morrison.

the board i now get the most pleasure from reading is, ironically, i love books.