One Old Green Bus

Post details: Revelling in our non-crapulence!

05/10/08

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Revelling in our non-crapulence!

"Iconic"... this blog has been called worse things...

After months of getting ~~borderline~~ "hate mail" from so-called Conservative bloggers and their fans (because of my stance on "hate speech" and pollution, if you needed to know,) including some rather nasty comments about our efforts here with more than a pinch of snark tossed in with my received missives, it's more than a little easy to become disenchanted, disaffected, and disinterested in keeping up the good fight... let alone still trying (seemingly vainly) to achieve our dream...

Anyway, don't have permission to share the "who" or "why" (yet), but please let me share what "they" said in an e-mail that made my day...

A writer for a well-known news and business e-zine who I'm familiar with and read often wrote to me about an article about bloggers... in specific, bloggers with an agenda... and said...

...of course, I have seen the old green bus around pretty much everywhere! You've made a small but quiet impact on the blogosphere [Editor's Note: I hate blogOsphere... it's a blog... and the globe is a sphere... it's not a blogo... and it's not an osphere... so I'm still trying to convince the tide to change to blogsphere... it won't work, will it?] with many fans and friends. I'd like to include you and your blog, the iconic Old Green Bus, in my article if I might. {-- Snip! --} Who knows, it might help your cause out and I can't wait to see what will happen if you guys succeed! That would be awesome!

Woot!

"Iconic"!

He called us ICONIC!

Of course I said "YES! YES! YES!" and answered his e-mailed questions... and once his article is up, I'll let everyone know... but I'm still flushed with the ol' blog here being called "Iconic"!

I now will return to my regular Saturday... and with a sense of being "flushed with pride", take Max to the vet for his annual shots...

This here blog got called ICONIC!

Time Is Running Short on our Dream!

Click here for details... 'cuz we need some sorta help... and maybe you or someone you know can assist us with our dream...

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Comments:

Comment from: Penelope Anne [Visitor]

· http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/

You are Iconic to me. I love this blog.

Permalink 05/12/08 @ 13:54

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey Penelope Anne... Thanks... but "iconic" was quite the word! :)

Permalink 05/12/08 @ 19:34

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items and whatnot as London was removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try and appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very young and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we failed... and the youngest has reached an age where she is more cynical than much else about the world which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying to get the bus and be far more realistic... but I don't mind (I actually enjoy,) venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live!

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