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The End of RAW360
R. Alex Whitlock
I had intended to write this on 6/1, but I haven't really had the time or energy. That, in a nutshell, is why it's past time that I am officially pulling the plug on RAW360.
It's become apparent to me that I have neither the time nor energy to get this site to the place I would like it to be and my attempts at compensating for that have been insufficient. The result has been a sporadic, discordant site without a core purpose or mission. Eventually I found myself writing on this blog simply because it is here and it's something that I've built. Once that was my only motivation, I found myself writing to it less and less.
I doubt that this is the end of my blogging career as a whole, but if I do start blogging again it will be in another capacity and it probably won't be really soon (though one never knows for sure). Seeing as how I used this blog to propose to my wife Camille, I doubt that I will ever take this site down completely, but I will no longer be updating it and if I start blogging again it won't be here.
I would really like to thank Kevin Whited for helping me get set up on Nucleus, Mike Ahlf for generously hosting the website (and all of the technical support involved with that), and Art Sammler for his contributions both as a reader and a writer. And thanks to everyone that made it a point to stop by long after I was updating regularly. Heck, thanks to those who stopped dropping by because it made this decision easier!
I'm sure that Sammler will keep writing over at Stone City. If either Mike or I start our own blog again, we will provide a link here.
Thanks again for everything.
 
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Sorry to see you go, Alex, but I certainly understand. It's been a pleasure reading your stuff.
Best of luck to you and Eel.
 
:( But where do I go to get my daily right-wing craziness now?
 
Sad day indeed - how about transitioning to a music blog? I do like the old posts about Phil Pritchett and the like....
 
:( Okay, but don't make us drive to Austin to check up on you. EMAIL and let us know how you are once in a while!!
 
I concur with PZ and Andromina... How the heck am I supposed to be able to keep up wiht you now? E-mail? Pshaw! Get a MySpace account, you should. Yeah! hehe
Even if it wasn't regular, raw360 was still one of my few regular daily stops on the web.
 
Sorry to see it go, Alex. It was one of my few outlets to see what was up in the life of Alex...of course, that's changed in the past few years, but it was nice to see around. I guess I'll have to get on AIM once in awhile :)
 
Take care -- I understand well, and it's been fun.
 
Geeze, I get a little busy and can't visit my favorite sites, and they all start shutting down :)
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