The Melon To “Close Doors” Next Month
by Electric Elliot
Melonites, I have some sad news for you. Due to the changing economic climate and a need to focus more on monetary concerns, members of The Melon have decided it best to cease activity effective next month.
You may have noticed a lack of posts in the last few months, and the few posts that did show up were about trivial subjects like birthright, gardens and wine. This decline is due to our writers having to move on to other jobs and other locations.
In our attempts to stay afloat, The Melon offered community services like filming school board meetings, offering free advertising, and developing The Sweet-Spot. Unfortunately, this good will and worthwhile time investments did not give us the return or activity necessary to pay for our hosting costs.
While we’re certain we could raise funds to pay for hosting, the main issue is the time we can put into The Melon which is severly limited at best.
Some of our writers will be continuing on; Joe La Sac has been offered a job at The News Tribune, and Glynnis Kirchmeier will be picking up with Exit 133 on her return from Viet Nam. Chris Van Vechten will be moving back to Portland, and as for myself, I’ll be moving up to Seattle sometime this summer.
It has been an honor to share the joys of Tacoma and the world with our online community and I thank you all for the support and the discussions.
Best regards,
Electric Elliot
April 1st, 2009 at 10:27 am
april fools?
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:33 am
I hope this is an April Fools joke, however if it isn’t, we’ve got lots of extra hosting capacity. Have you considered maybe opening it up for all to post? I’ve got very little time to put into my site lately but other people have been filling in the gap.
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:35 am
SAD!
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am
no more chris? but what about my cool political office slogan???
“V” for Van Vechten?
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April 1st, 2009 at 10:44 am
also Joe La Sac working for the TNT? is the TNT ready to be that JAZZED?
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:02 am
“Glynnis Kirchmeier will be picking up with Exit 133 on her return from Viet Nam”
Ummmm. Glynnis has never contacted Exit133. Not saying we wouldn’t be interested in talking, just saying we don’t know who this person is.
Joke or no joke? Not sure. But best of luck to all of you either way.
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am
Shoot. I wish/hope this is an April Fool’s prank, but I suppose not. I hope your skill, eye, and passion for the medium will find a way into your life again (and selfishly, ours, too) in a major way. I have a good freind who is born & raised in Tacoma/Fife and we were tossing around the idea around with about a topic for a unique video series. Your work is not only an inspiration, but it sets the bar quite high. Good luck, and please don’t remain a stranger.
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Elliot Reply:
May 15th, 2009 at 8:51 am
@Dave_L, Sorry I didn’t respond sooner. Thanks for your kind words. As you can tell, we’re not shutting down anytime soon.
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April 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
I guess this is a good way to find out who are the Chosen Faithful Readers and who aren’t by who posted their love and tears and sorrowful goodbyes to April Fools Day!
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Glynnis Kirchmeier Reply:
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 am
@Jen Drake,
Yeah, it’s like staging your own funeral to see which people “really” love you. And now I know who doesn’t read my articles now!
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April 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 am
Now that April Fool’s is over, I was only kidding. So, Frost Park on Friday?
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’m continually surprised at the amount of people ACTUALLY fooled on April Fools Day.
Good show!
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Jen Drake Reply:
April 4th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
@Liam Rosen, yeah, well, my brother PUNK’D me right before April Fools–he found out I was on Couch Serfers, so called with a weird voice and asked if he could stay the night–he asked if he could use my car to get to Seattle, stated he was on a restricted diet, and demanded I help him out and give my address to him right away, and demanded to know if I had a boyfriend or not. I admit to being naive, but at that point I was just freaked out. Chris was ready to yank the phone from me and give the asshole on the other line the “What For” when I suddenly said, “Dude, do I know you? Is this Matt Stevens, back from India already?” At that point, he cracked. I still didn’t know who it was, but I also heard a rather large group in the background laughing hysterically. My brother had a group of 10 people listening to the conversation.
Fooled. And a fool.
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