Test bested. The site is back up and I am working on my new interviews. I am still getting these harassing emails but hey, walk in the forest bugs are going to annoy you. They are still God’s creatures.
Now on to more serious stuff. I got interviews to arrange. Hopefully a few surprises will be forthcoming interview wise.
My initial assertion of Fair Use has been tested after being thrown off YouTube and having my site shut down. You would think they would see this as an opportunity. They do, as an opportunity to get rich. If you want be rich, if that is your sole purpose, then you work hard at what you do and build a solidly based infrastructure, do creative marketing and deliver superior services.
They need to talk to Sifi Dodaro about how that is done, not that I am saying he is rich. But he is very sucessful with his school and is really a true tribute to the kind of business acumen that Dante possessed. Two sides of John Keehan/Count Dante are at work here. Chicago had more John Keehan then we had of Count Dante, Fall Rive had all of the Count Dante Side. The sad man who got his best friend killed in an unwise act of bravado.
There are no heros in this story but the ones who continue the organization and entrepeneurial legacy of John Keehan/Count Dante. Preston Baker, Jimmy Jones, Tolo-Naa, Woody Edgell and Sifu Dodaro. These people and other students of Keehan have developed whole human beings with the martial arts as a principled foundation.
And in some cases they have not. But what do we do? Accentuate the positive. This negative stuff will wear a brother down.
I just starting looking at all this about Count Dante. It brings back a lot of old memories of Chicago. <br /><br /><br />I remember in 6th grade I use to go all the way to 79th and Ashland from 95th and Western on the bus. I worked for 5 years cleaning up Gene Wyka's DOJO. Coming from humble beginnings myself, I remember the nice duds John Keehan wore.<br /><br />I was learning to be a