Bring Me the Head of Pete McCutcheon

[akirlu]

...with a side order of Joel Rosenberg tartare.

liveavatar suggests in the comments thread to this post that those who loved Rasseff That Was might be well served by storming the Bastille and taking the fucker back by sheer numbers. I think that might work, if enough people went at once, and stuck it out long enough, and generated enough group policing fu. But I have no idea how much pent up demand there really is for such an assault. And I'm pretty sure I'm not, just now, the girl to tackle the project if it's going to require a lot of pep rallies and support wrangling. I am just a wee bit overcommitted at the moment, even as things stand. So I am starting a new post to see who all else out there is interested in such a project. Organizational volunteers especially welcome, but a gauge of enthusiasm (depth and breadth) would be good, too.

So, where are y'all at?

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think several people mark the fall as dating to 9/11. Being on the group then made the events of that day much more intimate, somehow. The first I knew that something was happening was when I fired up my newsreader that morning and started seeing similar reports of flame and explosions from people in both New York and DC area. PNH and Keith Lynch, I think, or maybe Marilee. And even once I'd turned on the radio, most of the news that intimately mattered to me of the events of that day, I got on or because of RASFF. I'm not sure that feeling of shared crisis contributed to the way things spun apart afterwards, but sometimes it seems like it.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

More than 911, I think it was the runup to and the early days of the Iraq invasion that did damage. That was very polarizing for a very long time.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, though I'm not sure how much I was there for that part. As I have just been reminder, my activity fell off a lot in July of 1999, when we got the dog, and again when pnh wandered off to the world of blogging. Patrick was long my primary filter for what threads I wanted to read.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

As I remember it on the day itself it was a good source of news both good and bad and the community spirit was there. But then the community became less important because people had Things To Say about the situation and there were more political angst and political policy posts in general and it seemed to get more and more concentrated on US politics - many, many threads gravitated in that direction and the world community was discussed much more than the local (fannish) one. I don't think it's ever quite recovered the balance. The Iraq war just fuelled that situation. But how do you work against that? It's a place for fans to say what they want, and a whole lot of them want to say things about politics.