Sarah, I totally agree with you. I loved his posts, infrequent thought they may be. It was always something I looked forward to.

Reply

well, yea, his blog is gone .. but did you notice the mention of a video podcast? Woo! even better .. You should know how much writing a blog takes out of you. I think the addition of pseudo-live action makes the lossof the blog acceptable.

Reply

He is on MySpace which has blogging capability and you can subscribe to it. He hasn't added anything but he's on my friend list now.

http://www.myspace.com/altonbrown

Reply

there are actually two alton's on myspace./ not sure which, if any is the real alton so i added them both. i can't find the url for the second alton, but if you type his name into the search bar it'll come up.

Reply

This may have been a factor:

From Alton Brown's Rants and Raves!

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Some of you may have noticed that the “contact” button is gone from my web site and that my rant calling for refrigerator pics is gone. Here’s why: although many of you sent in some really nice pics and insightful, fun emails some of you decided to send vulgar, nasty, frightening messages and images. I always knew there was ugliness and meanness out there but you know what, I don’t have to give you a place to put it. So, the portal is closed and will remain so. If you harvested the address, don’t bother using it because it will simply dump your mail into oblivion.

I’m disappointed, upset, disillusioned, and upgrading my security system. To those who wanted to play nice, I sure am sorry but life’s just too short to drink poison.

posted by Alton
3:45 PM

Reply

That sums up everything that bothers me about the Internet today. Sure, there's a lot of good, but sometimes it seems like there's a whole lot more ugly. People whose sole purpose in life seems to be to make everyone else as miserable as they are. People who think your computer is their plaything. Phishers, spammers, scammers and other breeds of scum.

Way back in the early 1990s, when the Internet was all but unknown outside of colleges and some larger corporations it was a different story. Spam was unknown. Email was a useful, even vital tool. Oh, how things have changed since then.

I don't blame AB one bit for taking his blog offline. Maybe he's just waiting to bring it back, or maybe it's gone for good. Either way, it's his call. I'm nobody, but I have to deal with a fair amount of comment spam on my main blog. I shudder to think what a high-profile celeb like him gets.

Reply