So. After many years in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s when I researched, managed, and built the Jim Carroll community and the website …
For many years, many decades, I managed “everything” JC.
But then at some point, I couldn’t.
I have been unable to maintain the CatholicBoy.com website to my standards, or anyone else’s, for longer than I care to admit.
I first launched this website in January 1996. Post-launch, I updated with every detail as I learned it, and I updated the entire website every year, because HTML was changing by leaps and bounds. Every year I would rebuild the entire website.
Sometime around, I’m not sure . . . I’m guessing some time not long after 9/11/2001, I wasn’t able to do it anymore.
I am just starting to learn about why I have not been able to sustain it.
I just learned, at age 60, that I have ADHD. I thought ADHD was boys bouncing off the walls. I had some of those in the classrooms I grew up in. Now I know it’s not just that.
I have just started learning about this. I will try to share what I learn.
I want to dig deeper. You?
I want to share many many many stories. ADHD means you can anticipate explosions of lots and lots of detail . . . then lots of nothing . . . (oh, wait, does that sound familiar?)
Sounds good! Miss you!
Thanks Mary!
Dear Cassie,
I don’t for the life of me know why I arrived here, but the timing couldn’t have been better. I’m Jonathan Haynes, living in Everett, WA. In probably 1981, a fella at school, Nick Manson, handed me a cassette in the art room of West Delaware Senior High in Manchester, Iowa. One one side was Boomtown Rats’ “The Fine Art Of Surfacing” and on the other side was Jim Carroll Band’s “Catholic Boy.” You see this coming, I know–it changed my life. Then I saw Jim on SNL or was it Fridays? I don’t remember, but JC has stayed with me over the years.
I noticed that you are transferring material from microcassette (or was it minicassette? They are different formats, after all!) and Minidisc. I expected to see that the post was old and I still read on–then I noted that it’s happening NOW! Cassie–please let me be a part of this valuable and utterly CRUCIAL task. I’d put my phone number here, but I figure that’s not safe. 651-tree fix fix-circle fix circle seven is my number to obfuscate. Text or call, because I have both the expertise and the equipment to make sure these archives are not damaged in the transfer, and that the highest fidelity possible is pulled from these priceless recordings.
I’m an archivist by hobby–occasionally I will do professional work, but mostly just for the passion of it. And I’m a big fan of JC. I’ve never seen him live, either! Time and space didn’t align for me to experience that magic. But I remember you from the Jim Carroll Digest back when it was on YahooGroups, and then I lost track.
So, please drop me a line, send a text, or just an email. I am tickled to death that you’re endeavoring this transfer, and I want to make it the best it can be for posterity. You are a pivotal figure in this, as you likely realize.
Very Best Regards,
Jonathan Haynes, Everett, WA
I just started to call you but I don’t know what fix is.