Death Knell

Ladies and gentlemen, friends and stalkers... I'm folding up the blog. I haven't posted since July and had seriously slacked off prior to that.

It's time to admit that I'm done with the experiment. I am seriously preoccupied, what with school, work and raising a teenager. Even when I do find the time to post, I don't usually feel inclined to do so. Part of the problem is that my focus is not just on Corvallis. I often would like to write something up in the blog, but often that something has nothing to do with our fair town. So I'm considering starting up a more typical blog where I can rant and rave about whatever comes to mind.

I feel mildly guilty about this, because I do think that there is a lot to be said about Corvallis and the events that affect the residents here, whether or not others would agree that said events had an impact beyond our borders.

For example, a homeless man froze to death in our fair little city a day or two ago, despite the relatively decent resources offered here and the kindness shown by a police officer. And speaking of kindness shown by police officers, or lack thereof, there is the ongoing incident where Officer Cox arrested a completely sober man for driving under the influence -- a mark that will now stay on this man's record, despite the fact that no charges were brought. Because he was sober. Jesus.

Anyway, if I wasn't going to school, I would likely keep this up. But I can't do it.

Why post a farewell now? Because I just received notification that the URLs for the Corvallist blog will be expiring in January. I am curious, my lovely fellow Corvallists, if there is anyone who would like to take over the website and become the new voice of Corvallis. I would be willing to transfer the URL directly to someone new to avoid the site names being snatched up by those horrid link-spambot sites that currently litter the series of tubes.

I couldn't sign the site over to just anyone, of course. I would want to see a few writing samples, unless the person taking over was a local blogger I already *knew* well. The new blogger also would have to agree to maintain some sort of message indicating that the author of the blog was new since whatever date the site was taken over. And, of course, this new person would have to take over the annual cost of registering the domain names (corvallist.com, corvallist.org and corvallist.net) and find new hosting space, although I could continue to provide hosting space during a transition period.

If you're interested in taking on this project, please email me at corvallist@gmail.com. If nobody's interested, I may renew the domain names for an additional year just to prevent the site from becoming a child porn network.

Thanks for reading, back when I was writing. Happy Holidays to all of you!