Yeah...

That's been me over there for about the last week.

At first, I wasn't gonna say anything about it because I didn't want it to cause problems. Only Sam and Paul knew from the gitgo.

But... now it's out and I'm actually relieved about it. To my way of thinking, there isn't a better way it coulda happened.

My number one priority about this whole deal is keeping Gut Rumbles alive, like Rob told me he wanted it to be.
The hosting, domain name, and other behind-the-scenes kinda stuff is being handled by Paul.
At some point, we hope to be able to restore the "lost" archives to the main page, free of all the (expletives deleted) spam comments.
I've managed to find all but about six months or so of them and if anybody has any ideas, tricks or suggestions as to how to the find the rest of them, by all means, let me know.
Or, better yet, if anyone has ever linked to anything he wrote between November 2002 and April 2003, please send me a link. If I can find just one link to a single post, I might be able to recover 'em all like I did the ones I already have.
I don't care how difficult or "tedious" it might seem to be to do, I'll do it.
I'll do whatever it takes to recover Rob's words.

And, since it's "known" now, I also wanna say another thing...

In keeping with Rob's policy of tolerating trolls to a certain extent, I'll do it the same way he did.

You wanna flame me, that's fine.
But, have the balls to do that HERE.
Don't be trying to turn Gut Rumbles into a forum about me.
And...
Anybody tries messing with Rob or Sam, your ass is mine.

Rob didn't give a damn about people messing with him, but he did NOT put up with people trying to hurt those he loved.

Neither will I.

If a fisking is called for, it'll happen here.

All I want to do at Gut Rumbles is repost what Rob's already written. It's not a forum for any new posts on my part over there.
That's what Xfire is for.

And, unlike Rob, I have no problem banning assholes.
He'd not ban dickheads because he wasn't too sure of his computer skills, as he said more than once.
Well, one thing I do know how to do is shut down dickheads and I will, if need be.

It's not like it's any secret that messin' with Rob is the surest way to incur wrath like you've never seen before, sooo... I just hope any potential flamers, trolls or dickweeds keep that in mind.

For the most part, any "administrative decisions", I'll be leaving to Sam and Paul, but any outright egregious bullshit, I will take care of without bothering them about it.
I'll remove it, ban the asshole, then, if they say it oughta be restored, I'll do that.
But, I won't unless THEY tell me to, meaning a whole buncha other people bitching about it won't budge me, okay?

And, frankly, I'd hope that if anybody does wanna start shit with me about any of it, they'd have the cajones to do it here.
And, that even the trolls would know without being told that fuckin' with a guy who is no longer able to defend himself is beyond classless and cowardly.
Then again, people who do that kinda shit aren't exactly known for having balls to begin with, are they?

Anyway... Gut Rumbles is Rob's.
And, Sam's.
And Quinton's- even if he doesn't know that yet.
I'm doing what I'm doing primarily for them and to honor Rob and I won't allow anybody to screw that up or turn it into a way to hurt those people.

So, I won't be responding to any buttheads over there.
I'll drag it back home here and do any "new asshole (re)construction" on my own page, time, and bandwidth.

And, I'll probably enjoy doing that almost as much as I enjoy renewing Gut Rumbles every day.
Just so ya know that before ya start....
("Ya" being the/any troll I know is already thinking of what to say...)
(/ of sermon)

Now, if anybody has any posts of Rob's that they'd like to see again, feel free to let me know and I'll do my best to find it and get it reposted.
Same goes for pictures of Rob or anything else he ever did.

And, while I'm speaking of "anything else he ever did", a lot of that involved way less-than-flattering things about Jennifer.
So far, I've not posted any "BC" posts because I didn't want it to seem like I was bashing her all over again.

But... Gut Rumbles without the occasional dose of vitriol isn't truly gonna be "Gut Rumbles" and there are several posts of his that mention her that way (BC) and then go on to other, really cool things.
So, eventually, I am going to wind up posting things that reflect badly on her just so we can see the rest of the posts again.

Besides, it's not like she didn't bring his wrath on her own self by what she did to him.
And, yeah, I already know "she had her reasons", but I don't have her side to present, so... it's either not use about half of what he wrote or use it and to hell with who doesn't like it... excepting Sam, of course.
Quinton too, if he had a way of making his wishes about this known, but he doesn't, so I'm gonna leave it at "Sam".

Also, on this particular subject... I know that Rob still loved Jennifer when he died, so that does have some bearing on my reluctance to use heavily "BC" oriented posts. It's one thing that he said it. It's almost another for me to be doing it, in my mind.
But, only "almost".
I never did try to censor Rob or advise him on what he should or shouldn't be saying and I'm not about to start now.

So, when there are "BC" posts up over there, and there will be- eventually, just remember that they're Rob's words and feelings and my only "job" is to keep Gut Rumbles alive using what he left to work with.

And, once again, thank you, Sam, for giving me such a cool way to even begin to try to pay him back, to be able do something so wonderful for the man who did so much for me.

Posted by: Stevie at 07:01 PM

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