the Word online community is something I truly cherish... as vacuous as contemporary culture can seem at times, the postings of the contributors to this site remind me that there are warm, intelligent and likeable people out there with interesting things to say.

Cap well and truly doffed, etc etc.

the Word online community is something I truly cherish... as vacuous as contemporary culture can seem at times, the postings of the contributors to this site remind me that there are warm, intelligent and likeable people out there with interesting things to say.

Cap well and truly doffed, etc etc.

and quite simply it's the best thing about the internet in my book. Which means you lot are actually, the best thing about the internet. Well done Mr Berners-Lee (and the DevHell brigade for finding a decent use for this web thing).

In that time you've made me laugh, made me think and helped me find new things of interest.

And one of you told me how to rescue all my itunes files after my PC crashed so I'm not only grateful but I also owe beer.

Hugs and handshakes all round.
I love it here, for all the reasons you've mentioned, and more.

I'm welling up now.

This is keeping me going until they let me out of here. And believe me, I mean that, do any of you know how hard it is to type in a straitjacket?

and not a minute too long, although as you say obviously better in the old days, when all this was just green fields. Not had my name on the letters page for a while either - must remember to post something about 'The Wire' ...

Seems we all joined about the same time ! Cheers all round.

That's what it said - honest. Of course it probably says 7 minutes by now, but if I go and check then I'll never post this. So, 1 year and 6 minutes it is.

Clearly the golden age of the Word Massive.

Well put paul.
The change i've most noticed is that there's less Richard Thompson stuff than when i joined. At first every blog entry ended up on a discuusion about the man.Great Hip Hop singles would end up with someone claiming the Leige and >Leaf was better than Straight outta Compton. Very surreal.
the topics are more varied now and the blog is all the better for it.
Here's to another 284 days

;-)
(Quite fond of the Nina Gordon version, tho')

I never even got an invite to your 1st birthday parties...

Hmm. That's an awfully long time to be posting an awful lot of bollocks.

clearly something in the water around then.

although i've been lurking in the shadows for a while...

somebody somewhere owes my boss a fortune in man-hours wasted faffing about on this site...

Between you, you've cost me a bloody fortune over the last 46 weeks and 3 days. I've become permanently skint and to top it all I now need to put up more CD shelves. I wish I'd never come in here, you thoughtless swine.

Stands up sheepishly in front of the group

Hi, my name is Con and I've been a Word blog boarder for about thirteen months now. I've tried stopping - I really have - but I've come to relish that thrill of leaving dull reality behind and entering ths strange other world where the colours are brighter, the people friendlier and more articulate, and the jokes much worse. I've heard that the first step is to stand up and admit that you've got the habit so, well, there it is.

Sits back down in plastic chair. Accepts pat on the shoulder from friendly bearded bloke sitting next to him

...although I didn't post anything for about ten weeks.

While other music magazines appear to model their message boards on the island in Battle Royale, WORD magazine's online presence remains a forum as opposed to an arena.

It's a community far greater than the sum of its parts. I can't wait for year two when we can all sell out, experiment with new age religions and destabilize the harmony by bringing in our girlfriends/boyfriends to write our posts for us.

(Puts arm around The Word collective) I love you guys. Thanks for giving me something rare and cherishable to waste my downtime (and some of my uptime) on - an entertaining, informative and eejit-free blog.

I've almost gone "full term" then. Anyway Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to my favourite wasters of time!!

Hardly ever post but read a lot.

And enjoy it greatly.

.....says mine, but it feels like so much longer. I´ve posted over a 100 times , all while at work. There goes my productivity bonus.
I´ve said this before but it bears repeating. I enjoy the cultured, witty and articulate arguments that break out and the lack of insults and general incivility is a joy to behold. Other sites are not so kind.

At 24 weeks and one day, I consider myself the hormonal teenager in the massive. I've written a poem about it actually. It's on my facebook page. It's called "When Oh When Oh When Will I Get My End Away?".

I hate you. Can I borrow a tenner?

of my first birthday. See you down the Anam next Thursday?

31 weeks and a day.

I read a lot and post occasionally. This site is the kind of thing the internet should be all the time.

can i wish some of those above good luck in the notoriously difficult second year !

and may I thank you for getting me into The Wire (and the inevitable drain on my bank balance), giving me an excellent way to kill time at a rather dull job (although the buggers won't give us access to Youtube) and confirmation that Melbourne, Australia is truly a cultural backwater.

Did we all arrive on the same bus?

it must have been a bad week on the telly last october!

My only regrets are that I didn't join earlier and that I didn't choose a better user name.

Would have commented earlier but wanted to wait until got to 45 weeks. Never addicted to anything before but might be now. Have occasionally posted in haste and regretted in leisure but overall it's given me a good and warm feeling being part of this here unusually and generally congenial fellowship.

and love every minute of it. By the way can i just mention that Richard Thompson is touring his 1000 years of popular music in uk in January. I for one will be there with my boots blacked.

I heard this on a recent trip to USA - what's the difference between a cross country run and Gordon Ramsey?
A cross country run is a pant in the country!!!