During the period after the site crashed, there was a rising panic on discord, and a lot of people asking me for updates and such. For me, the sense of frustration at my discussion with LT about conservative philosophy being disrupted gave way to a sense of surreal calm (clearly not shared by others last night) as I became transfixed and transcended by various folk and country songs (some of which I linked on discord) and then I ended off with "
City of New Orleans" by Steve Goodman (made famous by Arlo Guthrie).
I began to
rework the end of the song to fit the situation and then I incorporated my activities from yesterday on the forum, the discussion with Adam and the others about how the search function was getting slower and slower as I pulled up quotes for my discussion with LT (also referenced in the song), and thereby worked backwards. Still not satisfied with the beginning and by that point it was really late.
But Tim Turner asked to see the whole thing and so here it is:
Posting on the Talk Elections Forum
Don't let it annoy you with all the posting fails
There several hundred posters, over a dozen moderators
and one Administratrix
They're all out on the internet odyssey
along with NC Yankee
rolling through the modcave, Morden tribute,
arguing about 2008,
To Atlasia, the graveyard of so many dreams
Singing Good Morning Atlasia, how are you?
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
Yes I'm the poster they call North Carolina Yankee
And I'll have made 54,000 posts when the site is done
I was holding a long history discussion on discord
And wasn't keeping track of the forum
As I searched through old History board posts.
You could feel the site getting slower as it went.
And posts about political ideology
And posts about political history
all flowed on into a grand discussion
about what conservatism should be
with LT on into the night
Just a singing good morning Atlasia, how are you?
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
Yes I'm the poster they call North Carolina Yankee
And I'll have made 54,000 posts when the site is done
Nightime on the Talk Elections Forum
the site goes down and doesn't come back
They all hope it will return by morning
through the uncertain darkness rolling back to the site.
But all the threads and people
seem to fade into a bad dream
And all the posters, they ain't heard the news
The moderator sings his song again,
The posters will please refrain
This site has to disappear internet blues
Just a singing goodnight Atlasia, how are you?
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
Yes I'm the poster they call North Carolina Yankee
And I'll have made 54,000 posts when the site is done
Just a singing goodnight Atlasia, how are you?
Say don't you know me, I'm your native son
Yes I'm the poster they call North Carolina Yankee
And I'll have made 54,000 posts when the site is done
