Ten years ago, the need for uncluttered thought and substance-addled prose ignited us enough to start this blog and run free. The volume has ebbed and flowed, and to be sure Trip is alone now, but it's worth celebrating the staying power and evolution.
Within this decade, we've reported from the front-lines of culture, good and bad, around the world. Some thoughts have been clear (even with libations), others, well, less than so. But that's the whole nature of this place. Trip has even dipped into his old columns from the LA Reader newspaper, though it still has yet to be determined if that's to highlight changing times, or pure laziness.
When you're on the gold hunt, life can get in the way. 10 years will do that to you, and perhaps that's why the prose, while no doubt continuing to ignite Jake and Drew's brains, remains untapped. Jake began to write over 5 years ago "Is Success Measured in Degrees?" It's a question that can lead to an easy answer, but as this blog also speaks of the strife in Dealville, it's not a clear-cut answer. Drew's last post a few years ago was of a Las Vegas hunt that seemed to appear like a Vietnam flashback. There was pictures and documentation, but the sudden rush comes and goes on its own. While those days aren't gone for anyone, days like THAT are, and it leaves the reader to decide if it's good, bad, or somewhere in-between.
And yet, the spirit lives on. Maybe not in the same way, or as often as it used to, but there are moments. We raise our glass and salute the 10th birthday. Anytime those moments are detailed here, well, that's gold.
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