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A short history… of the site, not necessarily me.

Johnford.net started quite a few years ago as the now defunct radiosurfer.com. Radiosurfer was a radio news portal patterned after the macsurfer.com site. But, instead of the news being geared towards the Apple fan-boy’s, it was radio intensive. Essentially a links and commentary site highlighting the latest news in the world of corporate and not so corporate radio broadcasting. Radiosurfer lasted a few years, but in the end, it was all just too much damn work for very little return. Other sites have popped up to take it’s place, including the excellent radio news and industry site allaccess.com. Unfortunately, the niche wasn’t completely filled, and there really isn’t a ‘one stop’ radio news portal supplying links to the other radio news sites. Radiosurfer was pretty handy, but sorry, it’s gone.

About this time I got the bright idea of using my personal domain as a blog. Over the years, johnford.net swung from a site primarily about radio and media, to a singer-songwriter/americana music links and commentary site, and eventually becoming just my personal blog, with commentary, inane and often insane ramblings on whatever strikes my mind. The archives could go back quite a bit further than are currently listed, and there are thousands more postings on my old movable type blog. However, importing them all is just more damn trouble than it’s worth.

So what do you get here? Basically me. My thoughts, songs, poetry, photography, etc… It’s a continuing work in progress to get things up and running again after almost a couple of years of letting the site flounder in the wings. Where will the site go next? God only knows. But thanks for stopping by and visiting. I do promise to be more vigilant in the future about keeping the site more up to date. Feel free to contact me by shooting me an email using the form below if you have any questions or just want to say hi!

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I have a story that always starts the same. The words form in my mind,
always in exact order, day after day. “I once loved the most beautiful
woman.” This is how the story begins and ends. As I know in my heart
it shall always end. Each day I stand on a cliff not knowing which way
the winds shall course. Shall they blow me from the edge into an abyss
of violent waves crashing on the jagged edges of the hungry immovable
rocks calling to me from below. Or shall their grip pull me back to
the flowered fields and warm glow of the sunlit gardens of my
cherished dreams. For I know that someday the story will find its
course, and I wait like a shivering child, filled with hope and dread
for the tides of time to run their course. And me, a lone sailor in a
tiny boat tossed about by a violent tempest awaiting on an ever silent
God to calm the seas. Still, the story has only its two possible
endings: I shall either be telling it to my children yet unborn with
you by my side my love, as I see their faces aglow in anticipation of
the most wonderful tale of how we and they found our destiny. Or I
shall be sitting someday in a very dim bar, leaning my leathery elbows
on an ancient and tattered railing, rubbed smooth from countless years
of anguish, telling a tale to another man broken by his own fate, and
forming my parched lips to speak the words, “I want to tell you the
saddest, yet the most beautiful story you’ve ever heard.” Still, the
fact remains, I once loved the most beautiful woman. And always shall.