The News

Why would I build a web site that it entitled "Ray's Sometimes Controversial Comments?"  Well, I have wanted to do it for several years and I finally decided the time was right so here it is.   Actually I started this web site in the year 2000 as a place on The BBQ Forum where I could say some of the thing I wanted to say.  

I am and have been, the creator/moderator of The BBQ Forum, since 1995, the first and largest forum on the Internet about barbecue.  As moderator I have always felt the I should remain in the background of the BBQ Forum.  I never have thought that I should post a lot of messages to the forum and try to influence the content with my posts.  I have always felt like I should just steer the forum and let the people who post on the forum decided the direction of the forum.  There have been almost 800,000 messages posted to the forum and I have been kind of quiet.  As a result I have been a bit frustrated because in reality I am quite an out spoken person.

Around the year 2000 I wrote a few articles that were linked to the BBQ Forum.  A lot of people told me that the articles were interesting and that made me feel good.  However, I soon became so busy that I had no time to write and so I discontinued the "Ray's Comments" section.  So now nine years later I have decided to resurrect the the comments in the form of this web page.  I am busier then I was when I stopped writing the comments, but I think and write a lot faster than I did back then.  Maybe the fact that I quit drinking several years ago has something to do with my "enhanced writing skills."  In the future I plan to write my comments and views on many subjects and publish them here on this web page.  Now I must warn everyone that reads these comments that you might not like what you see written here at times.  I plan to say what I feel (with some constraints) about a lot things.

I only hope that I am up the the challenge that I have given myself by starting all of this.  I hope to entertain you and stimulate you and to expand your views and knowledge on the subjects that are of interest to me.  In return I hope to grow with the feedback I receive from you there readers of my ramblings.  I hope that I don't "come-off" and an all knowing smart ass.  I will do my best to entertain you.