drama.bryanbird.com

A message board I frequent is actually comprised of several different boards: general discussion, religion, and politics. This allows us to discuss hot-button issues separately rather than cluttering up the main board with rants and ravings. To keep track of the various web addresses, I use subdomains of bryanbird.com as shortcuts. (For example, http://wdtss.bryanbird.com points to the Why Does The Sun Shine? animation on my site.) The other members of the message board use them too, and whenever we set up another auxiliary site (like say, a photo album), I make a new subdomain (like say, photoalbum.bryanbird.com).

So back in May, before the politics annex existed, we were having a political discussion and there wasn't much meeting of minds. There was, however, plenty of flaming, restlessness, digging up of past grievances, and of course, drama. One of the participants in the discussion, a long-time member, left the board and hasn't been back since. No one replied to this person's going-away message except me, whereupon I posted, "Perhaps we also need drama.bryanbird.com to act out all this latent thespianism."

I really didn't intend it to be mean or harsh, but I felt someone had to break the tension, and this pretty much summed up my feelings on the emotional state of the discussion at that point, the emotional state being needlessly dramatic.

Today, in light of the NEOhioPAL "discussion" I linked below, I decided to actually put something at drama.bryanbird.com -- although I won't be posting it to the list, as it goes to 3,000 performing arts people in the northeast Ohio area. Still, I'll have it there at the ready whenever necessary.