Where's Don?

Don (Minus The Bars)

When this blog was about four month's old, I found myself reading blogs one night when I came across this blog called "Minus The Bars". Its author was a black male who used his first name as a signature, much the way I do. His name is Don and he wrote a funny post that I found so brilliant, I bookmarked it in my mind and remembered it. I used it as the basis for one of my short stories on my other blog, "Escapades". The story was written in the style of a late night conversation between a man and a woman, much in the way Don's post was written.

I commented on that post that night and I came back time and time again to this blog. I discovered that he had a second blog called "Deeper and Deeper" that featured his poetry. Again, I was impressed. I write poetry myself and it was then that I was formulating the idea of a second blog with poetry, just like his and Mizrepresent's poetry blog, WildflowerII. I hadn't quite decided what I was going to do or if I was going to launch another blog.

Don and I began to correspond back and forth through blog comments and then through e-mails. He encouraged me to go ahead with my plans to launch a second blog... a creative blog so to speak. He asked Mizrepresent about me and after getting her "seal of approval" (lol), he blogrolled me and I, in turn, blogrolled him. He became a frequent commenter on "Keith's Space" and when I launched my second blog, "Escapades", and began featuring not only poetry, but fiction, art, and what have you, he became a frequent commentor on that blog too!

He was a very popular blogger. Every blogger that I knew commented on his blog and he, in turn, commented on their blogs. He was courageous and down right crazy... profound and pornographic... all in the same breath. And then, one day in October, he just stopped blogging. He wrote a post ion which he said that he got abducted by aliens and when he got his money right, he would return.

It's been almost a year to the date he wrote his last post and nobody's heard from him. The last time I checked, that last post he did in October 2008 had 154 comments with people just stopping by to say "what's up"... a virtual who's who in the blogging world. A lot of bloggers say that they are shutting their blog down and going into "retirement." Most of them come back. Most of them create a whole new blog and start over again.

Don never did... he just stopped blogging and vanished without a clue. He was one of the best in this medium. If you're out there Don, holla back!