I just want to let you guys know that I'm planning on leaving this board permanently. You guys won't miss me. You might say "no, come back" but I know you really don't mean it. I was gone a lot ever since TLFR came out and none of you gave a ****. So you probably won't give a **** this time around either. I might as well give you all the reasons why I'm leaving right here right now.

1. As I said before nobody gives a ****. Just check out the JoviTalk awards. I got last place for Best Avatar. Seven friggin' votes! Now your gonna say something like "you're lucky you got nomitanted at all" but if I hadn't squeezed my two cents in at the last second in every nomination topic, I probably wouldn't have been nominated for squat.

2. I'm an outsider. Anyone who loves Bounce and dislikes These Days is automatically tought of as a blasphamer here. Nuff said.

3. This board is getting way too nasty. I leave for a bit and come back to posts saying that Bon Jovi have lost it and can't be redeemed because they're lazy bums and write horrible songs and should retire before Jon ruins them all. Hey, isn't "the band we love"? Maybe the forum should be renamed "Bon Jovi: the band we used to love". The people who no longer like this band shouldn't dwell upon the issue and make the faithful feel so uncomfortable that they want to leave. THEY should leave. Unfortunately things don't always work out that way. I faught all I could to defend this band. I don't think I can put up with much more. I thought I'd find people like me here. I was very, very wrong.

So, now that you know the reasons, I shall excuse myself so that I might pack up my belongings and haul my suitcase outta here. Unless one of you has a REALLY good reason for me to stay, I'm going to go. Now don't tell me anything about the Dry County 100 Greatest Bon Jovi Songs that I was going to post on New Year's Day, because that was a flop. And don't say you need me to write more Bongiovis episodes. Check the JoviTalk award nominations. Seems I'm not creative enough since Sambora Laura started up the threads and I was only one of the major writers if not THE most major writer. So you can give credit to her for all the work I put into that. Forgive me if I'm bitter. It just hurts to cut myself off from a community such as this. But really, it hurts to stay and read all of the nasty posts about Bon Jovi once you have found yourself truly in love with one of the band members.

I'm going to check in here from time to time until this thread dies. Maybe one of you might convince me to stay by that time. As I said before, I don't wnat to leave, but I can't stay either. I have become too emotionally involved with Bon Jovi.

Goodbye, so long, I'm moving on.