OK...here's my dos centavos on the recent crap going on.
Sorry to hear about iskibc...dude is troubled and I hope he deals with his demons. I don't blame some of you for being pissed off, but the community needs to look at the good its does.
Let's review (some examples):
Shmoesmith
Support for Plakes
Support for Iskibc and She-ra
Maggot contrib to many member's charities...ask gadget, snowtigress or wsd
PM Gear...while Splat et al do all the work, my guess is that w/o support from maggots as purcasers and otherwise, it would have never got off the ground
Maggots taking the time to teach Max Gosey how to ski...I hope he doesnt kill himself
BC maggots taking noobs under their wing
Everyone hookiong up for AKPMs tour of the lower 48 a couple of years ago
and on and on
A little story...
Last year at Gordycamp i rented a killer house for a week. Place was fucking huge. so I opened it up to other people going to the camp. The only ones I had ever met were Lego and divegirl, and we had like 10 mags, as I recall. NOBODY WAS A DICK (unless I was and nobody said anything), people freely shared wine, beer, food...great skiing was had...late night stoned/drunk phone calls were made (uhhh, sorry about that everyone...my idea)...and everyone who came paid up asap.
I had to leave a day early, because of some work shit. I was a little worried because I had a sizeable deposit on the place...the owner called to tell me the place was as clean as any group had left it, and that he'd love to rent the place to us again. that's the kind of people that are in this diverse and somewhat bizarre collective. I'll hang with mags anyday and hope they'll have me.
So here's to us and to comraderie born of shared enthusiasm for the sports we enjoy. Mazaltov.
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