moles out of mountainhills

i just want to say how grateful i am that the most heated debates and controversies on the Bootblack Forum usually involve "Kiwi vs. Lincoln!"...

Another list that i am on has become something not unlike war in the Balkans... multiple sides where everyone is right yet no one is wrong. Everybody believes in their viewpoint to the death, but for anyone on the outside, if you haven’t been paying attention to every military action from the very beginning, you have NO CLUE who are the armies, what are the borders, nor who is winning (if anyone...). It gets to the point where it feels like the people involved continue fighting the war only because they have forgotten what it was like to NOT fight the war.

i don’t bring this up to criticize their Balkans War. It’s their fight and they feel they need it. More power to them just try not to shoot the UN troops in the process... i’m just so grateful how... Canada... the Bootblack Community tends to be...

i have had the privilege of meeting MANY of you as well as many of your loved ones. i had the honor of meeting Master Barry at last year’s IML Bootblack Party. His passing is felt by all of us because he too was part of our family.

Maybe i’m getting all touchy-feely because it’s been over a week since i’ve had human contact above and beyond dragging my sorry ass to the grocery store for yet more apple juice... but my life is constantly filled with reminders of how much i love the Bootblack Community. As i kept saying all weekend at SWLC... if i weren’t already a bootblack, HOT DAMN i’d want to be one!


(p.s.. is anyone else freakishly disturbed by the “King” character from the Burger King commercials? yeah, i need to get out of the house...)