You guys have to check this out!

So fracking weird, like a long long acid trip.

Kill this blog. It’s already dead. It’s just a matter of putting it out of its misery.

No one posts any more. At least two of our bloggers now focus on their competing sites. And does any one read?

What killed JttM? Facebook, for one. Facebook has made everyone a blogger, with a broader audience than JttM ever had. Our picture uploads and status updates reach everyone who ever read JttM– and more. JttM was a great precursor to Facebook—a way for a group of people to keep in regular touch. But, today, it’s a place for random links and Youtube clips.

But Facebook aside, I imagine we’re all busy– too busy to meaningfully blog. Edemire has blogged here only twice in the last twenty-six months; Murderman once in the last fifteen months. I’d love to have the time to write longer pieces on the matters that interest me, even if no one was reading. But I don’t. Actually, I do, but I choose to spend my waning free time in other ways. I think we all do.

JttM was a great project and once a meaningful way to keep in touch. Many us made noble efforts at blogging. Murder did especially well with the longer, more thoughtful pieces. Daniel’s exhaustive year-end music picks were always amusing. And I really enjoyed taking my stabs as a music critic. (By the way, have you heard the new Camera Obscura album? It ain’t that bad!)

But, for me, the most memorable post was what I dub the Great Philosophical Debate of 2005– not for the post itself, but the comments. I still get a kick from reading those rants.

I’ve talked about decommissioning with Joel and BWB before (to whom, I am infinitely appreciative for providing and maintaining this forum for so long). But each was resistant. JttM is not what it once was. This blog was started almost five years ago now, admittedly at the cusp of the blogging craze (hey, anyone interested in starting a group Twitter account?!?). But today, I can’t see a purpose for it. Can you?

What do you get if you mix Shawn Kemp, Vince Carter, and Dominique Wilkins, then throw them into Kennan Ivory Wayans’ body? Watch the third video on this page to see the answer.

Holy cow, eh? Dude is throwing down dunks that I had to watch five times to comprehend.

Thanks Evin for sending me the link.

Oh yes, and what do you guys think about the NBA’s idea to add four amateur dunkers to their all-star weekend dunk competition? I like it, as long as we also get four NBA players.