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 Mindfield
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 |  |  | In Memorium of the Alkaline Canine
< on 10/5/2005 5:01 AM >
|  | | | I apologize for starting a new thread about this when a long one has already been going for some time, but as I am not ordinarily a part of these forums (though have always had an interest, if not the time, in urban exploration) and knew Jeff only during the YIP years, I though perhaps it would be more polite to post outside of the alumni who knew him mainly as Ninjalicious and for his passion for infiltration.
That said, allow me to intrtoduce myself. My name is Eric, otherwise operating under the moniker of Mindfield. I came to this site by a coincidental and melancholy series of events. About a week ago I made good on something I had been meaning to do but just never got around to: I decided to visit archive.org for more than just the Wayback machine (which I liked using from time to time to see old websites or forums I used to belong to.) Specifically I was interested in browsing their "Moving Pictures" archive.
One of the first things that caught my attention in the list of Moving Pictures archive categories, was a section dedicated to footage taken from BBS: The Documentary. I was interested in this because Jason Scott, the director, had contacted me in 2000 to ask if I would be available for an interview. Nothing ever came of that (probably because I moved and changed ISPs and was therefore no longer able to be contacted. I did note that he made it to Toronto eventually -- the first entries in the documentary archives were with none other than Milky Puppy!
I was pretty amazed. I was all about the YIP thing back in the early 90s; I used to call Jeff's Babble BBS under the name DragonLord, chatting amongst the regs, writing stories here and there, and occasionally contributing to the home-grown 'zine that became an outgrowth of life in YIP. I went to a few of the parties/gatherings centering around YIP -- those were fun. The very idea that he was still around to some extent (even though the video was shot in 2002) suddenly interested me, and I thought it would be hella cool to look him up again.
But then I actually read the blurb written in the video's description. The part that mentioned Jeff's passing in August. I was stunned. That couldn't be right. This can't be the same Milky Puppy they were talking about. So I googled him. I found YIP's old (but still active) website. I found Smarry's website with all the great text files from YIP. And I found the news articles. They all mentioned YIP only in passing, focusing instead on this Ninjalicious character who was all about urban exploration. Once again I had trouble thinking that this was the same Jeff. Urban Exploration? Nothing wrong with that -- I guess I've sort of been doing that since I was a kid -- but it was just so antithetical to everything YIP was about -- and YIP was the only side of Jeff I really knew. But sure enough, it's the same Jeff. A side of Jeff I never knew and never would have imagined.
After YIP, or more specifically after Babble went down, I felt left in the lurch where YIP was concerned; I didn't call any of the remaining two YIP boards and never really even considered doing so. Thus YIP faded into my past, particularly when I switched platforms entirely, got on the 'net in a more premanent fashion, and never looked back to the world of BBSes. For some reason it never occurred to me that Jeff -- or anything YIP for that matter -- would survive and make the transition from BBS to web page, so it wasn't until this fateful and lamentable sequence revealing Milky's passing that I discovered all of this entirely too late. Just the same and after consideration, I found this place -- the only forum I could find that had anything at all to do with Jeff.
He was a great guy. Even if I wasn't a close friend (mainly just an ardent part of the YIP collective) he had an impact on my life -- his BBS and YIP in general were my creative outlet for Babble and all things absurdist. There were no other boards I participated in that were even close. It was wonderful that Jeff started it up and gave others like himself, and like me, a place to indulge in our stranger and more creative sides. And now I see that he has since gone on to inspire in other ways -- in the art of urban exploration. It's amazing how many people he has touched and how deeply he has touched them. I guess you never truly understand the impact someone had on you until an event like this comes to pass and makes you really think about it. I'll miss him.
Wherever you are Jeff, I hope there are mountains of cheeze, fields of cows, and impossibly large structurers full of doors with "No Entry" signs on them.
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