Whoa! YAY! The Litkicks archives are back up!

[Doreen Peri]

Check it out! Links work... Looking past into history! Amazing! What a delight!

http://www.litkicks.com/BoardArchive/index.html

OMG! I remember all this.

I clicked several anyway and they worked just fine. Gotta try out more links. Geesh, I could be stuck there for hours.

Bowing to Levi Asher! All hail the king.

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Let me know if it works for you... I wonder whether it's all been restored. Wouldn't that be cool as cool can be?

Some of us used to live there. What a cool time that was! It was so sad to see it all go away.... but it's back, it looks like!



(I doubt if we can edit anything to remove it, though. Lord knows what I said back then.. hahahahahaha!)

[Doreen Peri]

From January 2001 to July 2004, LitKicks hosted a variety of open boards for literary discussion and creative writing. In early 2004, we asked all LitKicks community members to nominate their favorite posts or writings from these boards, and many of these selections appear in the LitKicks book Action Poetry, which is available now.

This archive is organized by board/month, allowing easy access to each discussion area at any point in time. All messages are available via Google, so if you are looking for a particular message or piece of writing, try a Google search on the name of the author, the word "LitKicks" and one or two keywords that appeared in the post.

That's how I found it. Googling my name to find out if another site removed my information as I requested, since I never joined the site and they had info about me on there and I didn't want my info on their site. They said they removed it. I searched my name to make sure they removed it.... and they did! ... and then...

..... I noticed my name somewhere else! In the Litkicks archives! Woohoo! So much history restored! So much poetry we wrote spontaneously to go capture and copy! I'm elated. I didn't expect this. This is wonderful! What a joy! (could you tell I'm happy about this? lol)

I just posted on Levi's page on FB and told him he was a genius.

I have a book in here.. I swear.. I didn't save any of that stuff.. just wrote it straight into the box. What wonderful memories! I'm going to go on a copying, pasting and saving frenzy of my own work and enjoy reading the past interactions. When that place closed, I didn't know where I was. It was my browser home page for 5 years.

[zero_hero]

It don't take much to make me happy these days

Thank you so much for finding that Doreen. I been looking for this poem by yabyum for six years. I kept asking him to post it again he said that everything he wrote on litkicks was spontaneous and he never saved any of it.

by Yabyum
2004 January 14

i know what lies lay in waiting, crouched beneath a cowards shadow
i know that empty can never really be fulfilled
i have knowledge of the whereabouts of warm golden smiles
of happiness creeping up dancers spines
of hands grasped sharing electric romance.....
i know what it means to be immersed in water
for the desire to feel completely surrounded by power

i have been a witness
to dying men with trac marks
to a hurtful thoroughly planned deciet
to a drink ending a friend
to a hollow water tunnel
to love personifying and walking away
to the annihilation of a mind just to clean it out

these are real eye contact accounts
spontaneous ramblings in no certain order
preferred to keep locked in a safe
i have a personal account of the locking in
i have a recording of everyone elses testimony
i have a knowledge of the whereabouts of every crumb of happiness that decided to fall between the cracks..........
http://www.litkicks.com/MessageArchive?msg=581998

[Doreen Peri]

Jack... it's like finding memories of myself again ... old photos, letters, poems written to friends, shoeboxes full of greetings and despair and joy and connection, and laughter... something stored in the attic and the moving van came and moved it all away to somebody else's house before you had a chance to go through it and save any of it and you never thought you'd see it again! Like an old friend from years ago calling on the phone who you thought was dead and no, he's alive after all, and all your friends come back together to have a party! I am so grateful he restored the database archives! Totally unexpected. It feels like christmas and new years and my birthday and falling in love.... So many of us were miffed and wondered and thought we'd lost so much work and then I started preaching "copy everything you want to save, the internet is only temporary" ... this is just a really great night! I celebrate the moon and the stars and I'm just as happy as the smiling rings around saturn. I'm going to be searching and copying and saving my own writings. I have a manuscript in there. Why did I ever doubt it would happen? The man's a genius. My respect is overflowing. I'm going to send an airmail letter with a little invisible genie inside so he can get whatever he wishes for.

OK OK, I'm going on and on.. I know I said it didn't matter, just let's all let it go and move on but there's my shoebox... several shoeboxes full of memorabilia and a manuscript waiting to be compiled. Champagne all around! *POP*!

Just goes to show ya... everything can change on a dime. I bow to his wife and firstborn child and his integrity and ethics. Surprised? You bet! Happy? gotta believe it.

OK, shutting up now. Aren't you glad?

Glad you found Yabyum's poem!

[mtmynd]

great to see this link... so much written, so much said.... a trove.

thx for the post, Dor'... and thank you, Levi....

[still.trucking]

It looks like it took
A lot of work to transport those threads to a different format.
Thanks brooklyn. you have restored my faith in litkicks.

[Steve Plonk]

It was my impression that Levi Asher would come through for us... At least in this particular parcel. (Some of the archives are still missing about Ken Kesey from the years 2002-2004. I had to repost one of my poems in memoriam to Kesey.)

Levi is true to his word in this case. I really appreciate Levi's hard work restoring all this stuff. I had copies of most of it... But juxtaposition to others is really what makes the stuff gel.

[Doreen Peri]

Steve,

He never announced that he would ever restore the archived forums.... that's why so many of us thought they were history, never to be seen again.

There was no announcement about closing the forums/boards, nor ever restoring them. Just one day, it wasn't there any more. However, it is possible I might have missed something and he announced it all, but I don't think so. He's a busy guy so no problem with that, of course.

He's a man of integrity and I'm very happy he finally restored them! It's wonderful! I'm very happy he found the time to do this! Much of what I wrote, myself, was written spontaneously and I wasn't smart enough back then to realize I should have kept copies.

I wanted to let everyone know that I talked to him today and he told me he had always intended to eventually restore them and was sorry it took him so long.

(All that said, of course, he wasn't obligated to do that... so it was very kind of him to make the archived database available! I, for one, am very grateful!)

[Arcadia]

so Levi made heavy memory floats again ...! I won´t hail him but maybe I´ll vote him in the next elections..!!!!! It sounds like good news for everybody (included him!), gracias!!!!! . I´ll re-read and eventually save not already saved texts! since 2001?... wow!!!!!!!!!!

[Steve Plonk]

Doreen, Thanks for setting my mind straight as to what Levi said or didn't say.
All I wanted to say is that I thought he'd hinted that he was working on the "Action Poetry" archives about a year ago and also mentioned that he was converting , in stages, to something called "drupal". My bad...

I thought he meant ALL the archives boards...Moreover, about six months ago, I noticed the old boards were posted but not working yet, so I assumed he'd bring them up to par. As I said in my "Howdy, Howdy" introduction, I'm not a techie and most of this verbiage just is way over my head. Next time, I'll just check things more carefully before I make assumptions. Thanks again.
Once again, I really appreciate that the old litkicks boards are back online. Thanks for the link.

Another thing, just as you suggested, in my column, I'll refer to our forums as a "site" or "community forum" instead of a "blog". My column is kind of like a "blog", like you said. We have a loose set of rules and I appreciate all that is in this community forum.

[Doreen Peri]

Doreen, Thanks for setting my mind straight as to what Levi said or didn't say.
All I wanted to say is that I thought he'd hinted that he was working on the "Action Poetry" archives about a year ago and also mentioned that he was converting , in stages, to something called "drupal". My bad...

I wasn't trying to "set your mind straight" about what he said and what he didn't. I was only recalling what I knew (er, what I didn't know, more precisely). I don't know what he said at any given time after 2004 when he closed the boards. I haven't been to litkicks since 2004 when he closed the boards (well maybe 4 or 5 times to post a poem but that's it), so if he posted anything about restoring the archives, I didn't get the message, Steve. I believe him, of course, when he says it was ALWAYS his intention and I respect that. It wasn't an easy task, I'm sure, to navigate such a large archived database to a new location and reformat it into a different content management system. Much respect I send to him for his integrity and hard work.

(But again, it wasn't something he had to do! It's his site. He could close it whenever he wants. That said, I make no guarantees here that Studio8 will exist in the future, though I promise I'll do the best I can to make sure it CAN exist, even if I become incapacitated, get hit by a truck and die. Still, no promises from me. Copy your work which you post here and everywhere on the net. If you want to make sure you always have it, save it. No site on the internet guarantees continued presence.)

Thanks for enjoying our community here at Studio8 and I hope all Studio8 members will go back to visit Litkicks when they have some time. It always was and it always will be a really great site! It was my favorite site on the net for 4 years.

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Arcadia,
Vote for Levi Asher, King of database restorations! lol... I'll help with the campaign. I'm happy you and others now have access to those writings some of us didn't save. Now, just to find the time to copy my own work! Enjoy, girl!