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I was working on the Journeyopoly game, and looking for faces of every band member, (past and present) to add to the board, when I stumbled quite by accident (through a Google search), onto a web site I have never even heard of before....

www.steveperryfans.com

I perused this site, which apparently hasn't been updated in a long time...but this page was rather fun...

http://www.steveperryfans.com/stevefun.html

And then I found THIS!!!

OH MY GAWD!!! That is a friggin' LAUGH RIOT!!!  I have this same magazine that has this ad in it, but I haven't looked at it in YEARS! This is the same exact Atari game that I still have (though I no longer own an Atari, of course), but WOW what a blast from the past!!!  I sat there, shaking my head, chuckling at how silly the damned thing was, but how COOL at the same time...

And then....before I knew where this web site was taking me, I found THIS!!!

The ARCADE GAME I was talkin' about in my last blog entry!! HA!!! That cracked me up!!  I haven't seen this damned thing in a bazillion YEARS!!! I remember, as a kid, (keep in mind I graduated high school in 1986), this was a game that came out in 1983 I believe, and I could only find it in ONE place in my home town, and that was inside a Meijer store!  We'd all go hang out at the arcade while our mom's went grocery shopping, and we'd play these cool arcade games....this one was my favorite.  I think I played it, oh, maybe 5 times, and then suddenly it disappeared and I haven't seen it since then.

The magazine article that came with this photo on this web site was also funny, it said this game was a "monumental flop," and I thought, "I betcha it could be awesome NOW though...if they ever recreated one like it..."

But, anyway, I just wanted to share this stuff with ya, in case you had never seen it before either. I did notice, also, that they listed Fan Asylum as a link, but the link doesn't work.  Lots of their links don't work, actually, I don't know who made this site, but it's very amateurish and outdated.  Bummer, it could really be something kinda cool.

Maybe YOU should start thinkin' about creating YOUR web site, Mr. Perry.  Seriously, I know you've been tossing the idea around for awhile, but come on, get busy and just do it.  My hubby works at APPLE for cripes' sake, he can definitely help you with it, and so could I, and whomever else has approached you that knows how to make it the most awesome site EVER.  Just do it.  Get it overwith, you know it's gonna happen after you're dead and gone, anyway, so you'd might as well just do it NOW while you can have control over the damned thing.

Did you recently read how Rosa Parks deemed a specific pile of papers as CONFIDENTIAL, never to be shared with anyone, EVER, but for some reason, now that she's dead and gone, her very own foundation went ahead and PUBLISHED them? And they included some information about a white man who tried to rape her once.  These were things she didn't want anybody to know about, yet they just went against her wishes anyway and did it, much to the dismay of a friend I went to high school with, who works at the foundation. (We keep in touch on Facebook, and he is outraged).

That's EXACTLY the kind of thing that is happening now with Anne Frank's stuff, too, now that my friend Miep Gies is gone.  Mr. Frank didn't want those last 5 pages of Anne's diary to ever be published, even AFTER they were all dead and gone, but they went ahead and did it anyway, right after Miep died. They made the Diary of Anne Frank into a COMIC BOOK (graphic novel)...and now they are making the play into a MUSICAL!!!  I am SICKENED by that...."let's make genocide into a musical!"  Why not make 9/11 into a friggin' musical then?  It's simply inappropriate and disgusting that they would even consider such stupidity.  Those were real people, they deserve RESPECT, not to be turned into a cartoon or a friggin' musical for God's sake. These places just want to make money, though, they really don't care about the person's wishes after they are dead, they just do whatever the hell they want to, and frankly it makes me ANGRY.

Don't let that happen to YOU. That would totally break my heart beyond all heartbreaks I've ever had.  It's bad enough that my heart hurts---literally hurts----when I think about Miep and how she would be so upset about all this if she were still alive...it's just WRONG for them to do that.

So, don't let somebody that YOU aren't thrilled with (i.e. Journey management, members, etc.) do that to you after you croak.  Take control NOW, while you still can, and make a web site that blows everybody away, and put specific legalities in it, that prevent anything like that from happening after your death.  Kick everybody's ass NOW, before they even get the twinkling of the idea in their greedy little brains.  Nip it in the bud and be done with it.

The only way to do that, is to create your web site, launch it, and sit back and watch it grow.  Think of it like it's a tree...you plant the seed, you hire amazing gardeners, and let them tend to it, but you help it along, you make sure you take good care of it, you weed it, you prune it, and you love it....and when you're gone, that tree will stand tall, above all other trees, in the tangled forest of rock and roll celebrity web sites.  You are already immortal, Mr. Stephen, with a beautiful soul...why not put a tiny piece of it out there in cyberspace, as your own personal "statue" of yourself---as a gift to the world?!

And hey, if you have a spare arcade game laying around, go ahead and ship it to me, will ya?!

I'd laugh my head off, but I would also love it!!

Bye for now.

Love, Rebecca