| Okay, so is this vanity or what? I
try to ask myself: why after 20 years scan all this DSDB stuff and put it out to the
world? What would the world care about four loud yobs a quarter of a century ago?
Isn't there enough self promotion and slack nostalgia on the web already? I
was musing over these very thoughts when I went through Newark, Delaware recently (4th
time in 20 years) and reflexively turned up Cleveland Ave to see if the Waldorf had been
turned into something yucky like a Starbucks. I was delightfully surprized to see
the old place looking rather stately now that someone put glass in the windows and painted
the front door. The railway bridge was still artfully rusted and dented and
Cleveland Ave was still shrouded in a beautiful web of overhead transmission lines.
I looked up at the wires over the broken sidewalk, and there they hung: a pair of
sneakers. It felt kind of weird to be old enough to be nostalgic about such things
and I thought that others might care to enjoy such a vestige of their mis-spent youth -
especially if they now live so far away. Hence this site. I'll admit I
miss those days sometimes, but above all, I miss the people, and the goofy, twisted
community we had then. Twas all in good fun. T |
