Update on the Salon
Here’s a brief update on the future of the Salon. As we’ve talked we felt it important to maintain the record of work done by Susan and the other writers for the last umpteen years, and there is some discussion of some go forward presence, though that’s not defined in any way yet. In the meantime, we’ve decided to keep the website alive for now, and will keep commenting active for the next month or so. We’re going to do some updating to the platform to reduce costs and workload, so you’ll see some changes to the page in coming weeks.
We’ll keep our customers updated on future decisions as we make them.
El Jefe
Sounds good!
1Much appreciated!
2Bless all y’all. If expenses are involved, let us know. Most of us like TWMDBS to pay for it.
3Great news.
4It will help with the transition? descent? after inauguration day. Into unknown territory with friends who have your back.
The best news I’ve heard post-election. Please make it happen.
5In these times a bit ‘o hopeful news helps muy mucho! Besides, someone is sure to have a Molly Ivins moment with Abbot’s refusal to fly state flags at “half mast”. tRump must think you all have a navy.
6Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
7Yay! Good news for a change.
8What Crone @3 says.
I’d be more than happy to pay a subscription or chip in!
Thank you for keeping the light on.
9I too would appreciate some continuing presence, and would chip in on costs.
10Count me in if subscriptions would help you.
11Same here.
12Me too!
13Folks here might remember my husband, Squire Al, who was devoted to Susan and this salon and who moved from Texas to Vermont over 20 years ago. He passed away almost four years ago. I have not been keeping up with the posts over these four years. I just looked at it now out of curiousty. First, it is ironic that Susan is closing her salon on January 23…it is Al’s birthday. Second, I have been dreading the upcoming inauguration. Like Michelle Obama…I will not attend…I will NOT WATCH it. I stopped watching the news after Biden announced his retirement. I want so much to return to my native Canada. I now concentrate on my grandchildren and my very young great grandchildren. Enjoy your retirement, Susan!
14I am so glad you are thinking of continuing. I have been reading for years but never commented as there are so many smart people on this site and I usually agree with them. I think we need a place to go to get the truth. So thank you
15Hurray.
Really good news, thanks. Miss you all.
16Have you reached out to the National Archives and Library of Congress? I don’t know for certain but they may have a program for what you are attempting. If you weren’t in Texas I would suggest talking to your congressvarment.
17This is good news! Thank you.
18PLEASE STAY. SANE VOICES ARE NEEDED.
19Thanks, El Jefe!!!
20The only thing the cabinet confirmation “hearings” are confirming is how completely despicable the candidates are. What a shitshow of clowns, the type you have nightmares about. We’re in for a rough ride.
21https://open.substack.com/pub/anntelnaes/p/special-counsel-jack-smiths-report
22Thanks for this piece of good news, El Jefe. We need as many avenues to sanity as we can get. Will also contribute.
23Well you already know where I stand on the subscription issue. Just let us know. Hell Jefe, beer and bread are bound to go better with good conversation.
24I too love the salon (or beauty parlor, as we used to call them) and would pay to keep it alive. Juanita Jean lives!
25Let’s keep it going.
Many thanks to Ms. B, and others, for the years of effort.
Now to find a simple, effective way to support the Salon’s continuance.
A subscription plan, a donation plan with stated goals and progress, or whatever it takes to finance and support TWMDBS in the future.
I realize that the actual mechanisms of such web-based funding is complicated, the need to accept various forms of payment may be complex.
26But there’s got to be an available all-in-one backend package commercially available at a reasonable cost for non-profit orgs.
Or at the simplest, direct transfers to a trusted admin, via PayPal or similar means.
Whew! So glad to hear this news!
27I’d be happy to contribute or subscribe to keep the Salon online to readers and writers here.
28Pleased to see so many willing to contribute. Perhaps a model after a website I visit daily – Dandy Don (https://www.dandydon.com/), an LSU sports venue. When founded long ago, the owner was determined to keep it free so anyone could have unlimited access, working on a strictly volunteer contribution basis. Well, there are thousands of LSU fans, and although I do not the financial receipts, the site is very active will several contributors that I assume are well paid. You may not get thousands, But I suspect there will be enough to fund daily operations. Just let us know. And, tell Nick to come back. Miss his insightful commentary!
29Vote Vets has a donation program that seems to be pretty user friendly. I didn’t need an eighth grader to figure it out. My thirty year old daughter is up to enrolling me for a monthly payment at a range of amounts.
30I’m just guessing but folks may have missed that this week’s Friday Toons are posted further down above last week’s Toons. Thanks to Fenway Fran!
31Thanks Steve. I did not see that. Some really heavy stuff in today’s selections.
32Off-topic, but one of my favorite students refered to a certain event as “Inauseation Day”, with an emphasis on “nausea”. One of the reasons I’m not entirely giving up on the younguns; even at their age I was not clever enough to come up with that phrase twist.
On-topic, my thanks to JJ’s wizard (wizardess?) who has worked behind the scenes for many years to keep the lights on and hair dryers humming here at the Salon. I’ve thought about starting a Mastadon instance keep the conversation going, but I’m rapidly approaching the time when I won’t be able to handle moderation or the daily upkeep on such a venture. Like others here, I’m willing to chip in monetarily. But a looming check-in time at the Horizontal Hilton will prevent me from doing much more than that.
33Thanks for all the humor, grit, and sanity that have been shared with us mere mortals over the years. Just remember that we will too.
34Thank you for sharing your work, wit, and wisdom with is all. I think I tripped across your site back when Sarah Palin entered the national stage. I have appreciated your journalistic light shining on Texas and national politics. Thank you and godspeed.
35Just tuned again and I am delighted to see that the fight just might go on! We will have to do something to get through the next four years! I have a feeling that the fight to save democracy might be bigger and badder than we expect.
36I didn’t sign up to stay part of the community because I am not a frequent commenter. I do still like to check in though. If donations can keep the lights on, let me know.
37On this awful day, harrowed by the news, I came here to find talk of dissolution of the site. Dang. Count me in as another subscriber if there’s any chance it keeps things going. I have been listening to the forever missed Molly Ivins on tape, as I hid from the world for a while, and always hear her voice when juanitajeanherownself posts. I close to never commented, but was always grateful for the wise and funny words written here. owe you all some long overdue thanks, whatever comes next.
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