Susie, Susie, Susie…
One of our favorite Philly bloggers, Susie Madrak @ Suburban Guerrilla, is getting ready to take a break from blogging. Seems she’s become a hired gun for Philadelphia mayoral candidate Tom Knox. That’s certainly a good thing for Susie, but a loss for the Philly progressive blogging community. History has shown that […]
One of our favorite Philly bloggers, Susie Madrak @ Suburban Guerrilla, is getting ready to take a break from blogging. Seems she’s become a hired gun for Philadelphia mayoral candidate Tom Knox. That’s certainly a good thing for Susie, but a loss for the Philly progressive blogging community. History has shown that when the better bloggers on the left get hired away by political campaigns, they rarely return (at least in their previous blog personas), so we at ASZ wish the best to Susie.
Suburban Guerrilla isn’t going away - it’s being turned over, at least temporarily, to a couple of Susie’s compatriots.
Susie also writes via email that her normal site is down today, for a variety of technical reasons, and that the temporary home for SG can be found here. Never mind -it’s fixed now…
Anyway, salud, Susie!
We also (sadly) note the apparent passing of Whiskey Bar, one of the blogs that originally inspired me to start All Spin Zone. Discussion of Billmon’s decision to pull the plug can be found at Firedoglake and Moon of Alabama.
I could never (and wouldn’t even try to) match Billmon’s unique writing style, his research ability, or depth of knowledge on a stunningly wide variety of topics. When comments were still allowed on Whiskey Bar, I was a frequently posting member of the community. One of ASZ’s original contributors, Kate Storm, came to ASZ via Whiskey Bar as well. Billmon’s voice and perspective will be missed. I sincerely hope that he’ll return in some future online incarnation.
And so is Kate’s!
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I’ll miss Billmon–he was one gloomy mother but he could wail like a Delta harp.
I have hopes that Billmon will be back.
But here’s a few fingers of single malt to one of the best.
Those were some good times on the barstool when billmon still had the comments up. Whew. It seems like ages ago. It was billmon who got me started on my quest to become debt free with his econ posts. I owe him a lot.
“…Billmon’s unique writing style, his research ability, or depth of knowledge on a stunningly wide variety of topics. “
That sums it up well. And how about his photoshopping?! I’m still going to click over there a few times a day. Probably won’t be able to help myself.
Cheers.