Re: Thomas Ligotti Online - Twelfth Anniversary
 

Let us not forget the unfathomable depths of our most prolific and comedic contributor, G. S. Carnivals. Phil also serves as house editor and moderator. TLO would likely be nothing more than pretty colors and starry-eyed passersby without his precisely balanced presence of wit and wariness.

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Justly stated, Brian. My apologies for the oversight. Phil is indeed the veritable heart--and mascot--of TLO.

Phil, many many thanks to you!
:)

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Thank you, Brian and Jon. I am profoundly grateful for your kind words. Whether my contributions to TLO have been Thomas Ligotti quotations, sacrifices to the Puzzletron (crossword puzzles), Quirk Classics, or goofy Ligottian recipes, I may only hope that I have maintained the standard set by Mr. Ligotti himself: "Literature is entertainment or it is nothing."

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I, too, would like to add my words of thanks to Dr. Bantham, Dr. Locrian, G.S. Carnivals, and the many other TLOers I interact with here for making this such a wonderful forum. There's no place like this home to share one's love of Ligotti's prose and associated weird media. And no finer crew of fellow travelers.

Here's to another twelve years! :cool:

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I have never felt more at ease among so many delightful strangers. Thanks to all responsible for their vision and maintainance of this fine literary/aesthetic/philosophical oasis.

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We are all here forever, come what may.
Thanks to Dr B, GSC and Dr L and TL himself.
And to all my friends here.

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Findings have just been announced today that moths and butterflies surf the wind;
http://news.discovery.com/animals/migrating-insects-butterflies.html
They instinctively or deliberately discover fast moving winds or thermals in the upper atmosphere that enable them to migrate vast distances in a short space of time.
One can imagine them surging along - enfolded together or separately? - in an unconscious nirvana or fully conscious? -

?? like fiction writers who send their synchronised shards or mites into visionary tides of random truth and fiction within the vast migratory creativity of art. Some tides self-created others created for them.

The swellest tide of all is TLO's tide.

Re: Thomas Ligotti Online - Twelfth Anniversary
 

Phil? Phil who?

Oh, that Phil!

Ditto what Drs. B and L said, a thousand times. Thanks for everything you do, Phil. :)

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Yes, include my thanks also to the powers that be.

Re: Thomas Ligotti Online - Twelfth Anniversary
 

three cheers to the TLO crew! you guys rock although the campiness of the old website did have a sort of charm to it haha

Re: Thomas Ligotti Online - Twelfth Anniversary
 

Happy tenth, TLO...