Hi all! I’ve been promoting Substack to pals cos it’s a quick and easy way to share info. I decided to STOP telling people I have a “Substack” and instead refer to its original usage, A BLOG.

I have a site, PunkPioneers.com. My first site was in 1995, hand coded. Started WordPress in 2006.

Email newsletter services SUCK.

How to attract readers?

How to engage readers with comments?

Substack offered easy, free, quick solutions.

Then I decided to change the Substack to a regular domain name. I have lots of them. That’s when the problems started.

I never ever never include “www” in the web address. To my astonishment, that’s required for Substack. Ok, how do I change it?

You delete and start over.

Where’s the delete button?

MIA.

I am SO TIRED of being told WRONG INFO! If there were a delete button, I never would have contacted their support!

That meant an escalation to a human. Who might respond. Someday. They are very busy. Especially regarding REFUNDS.

They responded two days later. Very quickly refunded  $50 for the domain update and removed my data.

Of course I copied all the info I needed before trying to delete my account or contacting them.

I moved my posts to my site.

That was fun. Not. WordPress and Elementor were, once upon a time, so much fun! Creating a site was fun. Now it’s torture.

Why or when did tech get unnecessarily complex? Not fun anymore.

Also, now I have email issues. I set it up, all was fine. But now I see an error? No explanation. Just a lotta gobbledygook words that are not helpful.

WILL THIS HELL NEVER END??

I just wanna share true tall tales and photos, and narrated vids showing lots of photos no one else has ever seen.

And that’s my life.

I wanted to spend the past weekend WORKING ON MY CLASH 16 Tons Tour, England, June 1980 PHOTOS. Lemme at them and I’m a happy person!

They are so cool!! But need tons of work. Too dark. Too light. Too yellow or too blue or too magenta or too red or colors need to be restored.

Most amazing band, The Clash!

(Well, my site and other fun tech issues took over. URGH.)

Hope you are doing well!!

Al Jolson sang “Let Me Sing and I’m Happy.” Now I’m crying with joy. IRVING BERLIN wrote this! Leave it to two emigre RUSSIAN JEWS to sing about the joy of creating art and music for others!!

(Jolson was Lithuanian, like most of my family. They all fled the Czar’s murderous “pogroms” in the great immigration wave of late 1800s, early 1900s. The family history of so many American Jews.)

What care I who makes the laws of a nation
Let those who will take care of its rights and wrongs
What care I who cares for the world’s affairs
As long as I can sing its popular songs

Let me sing a funny song
With crazy words that roll along
And if my song can start you laughing
I’m happy, happy

Let me sing a sad refrain
Of broken hearts who love in vain
And if my song can start you crying
I’m happy

Let me croon a lowdown blues
That lifts you out of your seat
If my blues can reach your shoes
And start you tapping your feet
I’m happy