I'm really glad you're not griping, but instead recognize the inevitable movement of fringe to subculture to mainstream. Of course, it's sad when the thing one loves and has spent a good chunk of one's life building get taken over by people with less passion, less commitment and less awareness of the 'why' the thing happened in the first place.

But we - the innovators, the agitators, the true do-it-ourselves-ers - we'll go to some fresh, unexplored territory and carve out something meaningful. That process - the carving out of something meaningful where nothing had existed - that's what satisfies us. And the followers will never know how that feels.

So here's to us and whatever comes next.

the only way to keep something like this from becoming mainstream is to make it flawed. drive people away. The punkers that still hold true to punk as a music, style, and way of life, hold true to the fashions and sounds that are so ridiculous or unappealing that you have to want to like them. When something is simply good, sooner or later people will find it and like it. Or more frequently, find the copy and like that.

I hear you, Tac. But I agree with the other comments… in the long run, the punk movement brought reality back to music, and blogging will bring truth and democracy back to communication and media.

Not sure what skateboards did, but you get the idea…

PS - And it's “Troiano” with an “o” Thanks for the link anyway.

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