I was actually surprised to hear that Blake had crawled out from under his rock after so much time away...not surprised to hear that he evidently had another meltdown. Like he should really be surprised to hear that people "might" think he was/is lying about his involvement in his wife's murder?

Of course, you of all people would jump to post on a Robert Blake thread.

I really, truly regret the loss of the Jim Rockford thread....

Anyway, I was actually surprised to see Blake came out of seclusion because I thought he had actually decided to disappear forever after he beat the rap (or rather LA County failed miserably in their effort to prosecute him), but I wasn't surprised to see he had a meltdown. I always thought he was mentally unbalanced...even way back when I was a kid and I'd see him on Carson. I just don't have a clue what he thought he had to gain by going on there. I guess he's trying to promote some upcoming memoir or something...but still.

Yeah, you so don't regret it that you went whining to Steve about taking your posts down because I wouldn't give in to your faggotry and take them down for you.

And according to his wikipedia page, he was the product of incest and survived a botched abortion attempt.

Only to the extent that I never should have had to, in that I never should have started the thread in the 1st place. And after I did, I allowed it to snowball into something way more than the initial intent, which only made it worse.

Though I didn't share anything all that intrusive, I also knew it doesn't take much to get her upset and all worked up & I failed to rationalize that I was doing & sharing what I was right out in the open/public, and on an industry related board at that. We were friends...we had a nasty falling out...there's still bad blood between us...but that's still no excuse...It was still a major douchebag move on my part. I'm the 1st to admit that I can be a dick at times...but I'm really not a dick & I actually have a conscience. That's why I genuinely regretted starting that thread. Though some of what I shared I had discovered on my own after we had our falling out, some of it wasn't....and I was wrong for betraying the friendship and trust that we had formed between us. Two wrongs never make a right.

I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't worried about how she was going to react (when I stepped back and looked at what I started), especially knowing how much she really loves her father to this day...but that wasn't it. The fact of the matter is that I really did feel bad about starting something that was only going to end up causing shit for and/or hurting her. At the end of the day, that's just not me.

Hell, despite the bad blood, the nasty falling out, and the lies that have been spread by her, about me, in public (which she always deleted I guess after she stepped back and thought about what she was doing too)...I still don't actually hate her, and I don't actually want to see her being hurt in any way, shape, or form. I've seen both sides of Nikki...but I know deep down, she really is a good person. There is a difference between genuinely believing something that isn't true & acting accordingly and knowing something isn't true and just doing something out of malice.

I have two sides too...I can be the nicest and sweetest guy you would ever want to meet....but I can be a really mean dick too. That thread was a glimpse at the latter.

Anyway, I've come to find that impulsiveness and anger are a TOXIC combination. Things that seem to be a good idea when you are upset and not thinking rationally, rarely do when you calm down & step back and view them rationally/calmly from afar. That's why it is important to always step back, take a time out, and think before doing something impulsive. Easier said than done...but still.

So in summation....the only thing that I actually regret, for several reasons, is starting the thread in the 1st place, and having to run to Steve could be included...but only by extension.

I'm not objective enough to say whether or not I agree with your decision to not let me off the hook for my douchebaggery or not, to examine the motivation behind that decision, or to be perfectly honest, examine my true motivation behind wanting the thread removed (I know it was for me and for her...but I'm not objective enough to tell which weighed more) but I don't actually regret going to Steve (though I should have just gone to him to begin with) after the fact (after I fucked up royally to begin with) instead of seeing how things played out, especially after they got out of control. Yeah it was a punk ass move...but it was also one that needed to be made.

A wise woman once taught me that actions have consequences (I also learned one should never cross an Italian woman from this same person actually). Perhaps I did get off easier than I deserved to with regard to the whole thread issue...but the main fact remains that I NEVER should have started the thread in the 1st place & I'm certainly not saddened in the slightest that the thread is no more...I'm only saddened that I ever started it. There is a right way to go about things, and that certainly wasn't it.

Sorry this post was so long....I figured I'd just go ahead and cover it all once and for all. Moving on......

I didn't know much about him other than my dad watched Baretta when I was a kid. I didn't know he was that loony until he murdered his wife. I wonder if Blake is so delusional that he didn't even imagine Piers eventually asking him about the murder.

He was in Our Gang too

quoted in case you go whining to steve again.

That being said....I'm really am sorry.

You don't actually have any real friends, do you? No one who interacts socially with humans on a regular basis would ever be as verbose, irritating or stupid as you are.

You don't actually have any real friends, do you? No one who interacts socially with humans on a regular basis would ever be as verbose, irritating or stupid as you are.

Steezo, shh! I'm looking to make my bones on this guy, maybe enough to get promoted to full Admiral. Let things build to the sudden but inevitable denouement.

The verbosity is the curse of too much education. A legal background "kind of" tends to lead to being wordy.

The "too much education" thing doesn't strike me as being correct. If anything, college taught me to self-edit myself in the interest of being concise & accurate. You didn't actually graduate with any sort of legal degree, did you?

He claims a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Penn State, the sort of degree that is an entree to renting cars at Enterprise in Cincinnati.

I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice with a minor, in Political Science from Penn State (graduated top of my class...3.98 GPA actually)...yes, I really did graduate with a "legal degree."

I have no doubt it's B. S.

No, you really didn't. I did, but you didn't. The only legal degree of note is the Juris Doctor, or Bachelor of Laws, each of which is a post-graduate degree. Criminal Justice, like Education, is a bullshit degree for losers.

So, what exactly do you do for a living? Just curious. I'm asking because you seem to have excuses for everything.

I just checked and Dickinson still charges the same tuition as before: $39,400 a year. State resident, not a resident, no difference. So Penn State Law offers all the prestige of a state university education ranked about the same as UNLV, coupled with the high tuition of a private university. Cost of attendance is estimated at over $60,000 a year and you'll graduate $200,000 in debt, into a seriously depressed and oversupplied employment market where the median starting salary seems to be settling in around $50,000 a year?

You should definitely do it, Rockford.

I used my law degree as a stepping stone to what I really wanted to accomplish, too, Rockford. I'm 46, debt free, and I enjoy a drug-fueled whore-a-thon at least twice a month. But I came out into the marketplace 18 years ago, and things are different now. I wouldn't go into the same career field in this economy.

Coincidently, Bonnie Lee's first marriage was to her first cousin whom (or is it who?) she had 3 children with.