I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway...

The End has come.

The blogging career of Carter Wayne Jones will from here on out be nothing more than a footnote in the history of the medium. This will be my last post, because the powers that be have shut me down, thus explaining the long absence of a new post as I've been dealing with the fall-out over the past week.

I will not be returning to State University, because they have expelled me for writing about underage drinking, drug trafficking and hazing. I have been excused from the Fraternity by International Headquarters along similar lines. My painstaking efforts to keep my identity, the Fraternity’s and the university’s a mystery have been for naught, as my cover has been blown and the consequences are raining down upon me.

Just nine credits short of a degree, in the midst of a recession, I have been thrown out in the cold. My incisive pen has pissed off the wrong people, who saw to it that my identity became public and the fire brought to my feet.

I have greatly appreciated the support of you, my readers, over the last eight months. It has been an enlightening experience to try to entertain, educate and pontificate in this space for people I have never met. I have sharpened my style and gotten better acquainted with the English language, which I believe will be useful in future endeavors. I will miss posing as this alias, congratulating the great and questioning the inadequate.

I do not know what I will do from this point forward. I will be forced to find another university to finish my degree, but I fear it will be hard to line my credits up with a different institution’s requirements without repeating a great deal of courses. I shudder in fear, because my parents will not be willing or able to continue to give me the advantages I have enjoyed over my four years of study here.

I still have my First Amendment rights, so the site will stay active. Now that I have been outed, and with little else to do, I will probably continue my blogging career, but it will have to be under my given name and at a different address. When I know more, I will let you know. Thanks again, I shall Press On.