Other members who joined in 2003 and don't post here anymore for reasons I can't go into are couw and paul secor

I joined in January of 2004, after first finding Jazz Corner and All About Jazz. Organissimo stole my heart from the get go. Never became a frequent poster but have generally been a regular lurker. And to think, back in my collection's infancy, I thought "Some day I will have 1800 CDs, and then I'll have everything I want." 6500 CDs later....

Yeah, saw the Post-Gazette is folding — but oddly, they’re not even trying to do anything just online, not in any sort of reduced capacity even. Hard to fathom a city the size of Pittsburgh without a newspaper of record. We’re already trying to survey the PGH media landscape for where to get our news — hoping to find some enterprising, hopefully non-profit news-gathering source (which if they’re no. I’m sure when we transfer our NPR support from here in DC to the Pittsburgh NPR station, we’ll double our yearly donation.