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Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« on: February 4, 2009 12:02 pm CST »
Does anyone know where he is or if something happened?  His YouTube and Flickr accounts have been closed (which is the most surprising and worrying part), I haven't seen him in months, etc.  Does anyone have any information?
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #1 on: February 6, 2009 12:04 am CST »
Now that you bring it up, his absence is kind of worrying. I can't say I noticed it myself, but I'm extremely imperceptive to those sorts of things anyway...
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Okay, so a quick google search brought me to this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slorge

Maybe someone he's worked with knows what happened to him?
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #2 on: February 6, 2009 03:22 pm CST »
About the only thing left of him that I've found are a portion of his videos on Dailymotion.  I was searching youtube and other people have commented as long as three months ago that something is weird.  No conclusions yet.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #3 on: February 6, 2009 04:17 pm CST »
Matt Hawes, who worked with Slorge on some videos, responded to my inquiry with this:
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I haven't heard anything from Slorge for months, myself. I was curious as to why he closed his account, as well.
No one knows.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #4 on: February 6, 2009 04:19 pm CST »
I emailed his established email address (yahoo) on 1/22 and haven't received anything back either.  Considering that this is a technical guy who has been well-established on the public side of the net since the early 2000s this is very odd.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #5 on: February 6, 2009 09:23 pm CST »
I was thinking the same thing. Very odd indeed. Can you determine the last time he'd logged on to these forums? The most recent activity from him that I can uncover was from at least 10 months ago, when he posted "How to fake a monster video" on one of his numerous video website accounts.

I checked into his old band, "8 Mile Bend" (I think that was his band, at least...)
Their YouTube profile was last touched 7 hours ago. I also came across this...
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UPDATE................We are getting back together ......It looks like it will be all of us except Scott Goodhart.....I will miss that voice and bass. But I am glad we all are getting back together......It should be a blast !!!

And Slorge's wifes YouTube page.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TiredSlorgeWife
Last signed in a month ago.


I sent out a few messages to see if I could dig up some info. We'll see what comes up.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #6 on: February 6, 2009 10:07 pm CST »
I could swear I saw Slorge on the server not too long ago, but I don't know for sure.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #7 on: February 8, 2009 07:19 pm CST »
Managed to get a word from someone:

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Well, i know him personally.
he lives around the corner
his account got banned when someone posted a responce to a contest video.
but before he could deleted youtube kiked him off!
egglooke

So he's probably okay at least.  Still sucks that he got robbed essentially.  :(
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #8 on: February 8, 2009 07:47 pm CST »
What the heck?

So how come that affected his Flickr account as well? And nearly every trail that leads to him winds up nowhere? Damn peculiar if you ask me...
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #9 on: February 8, 2009 11:14 pm CST »
« Last Edit: February 8, 2009 11:23 pm CST by Lidge Farkley »
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #10 on: February 8, 2009 11:19 pm CST »
If someone was pissed at him, it might not be too difficult to go after his Flikr account too, but I agree that this whole thing is strange.  I'd expect him to have either fought it by now or somehow get a word out to us.  Maybe he just decided to hell with it all.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #11 on: February 8, 2009 11:23 pm CST »
Yeah... it seems quite unlike him... in many ways.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #12 on: February 9, 2009 12:12 pm CST »
Well here's the end-game:

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Hi Geoff,

Yes, Scott is fine. He decided to go off-line and, basically, quit all of it in one day. I don't know about emailing him. He still has his account, but I don't know if he checks it regular.

He's changed jobs, spending more time with the family, and has become more involved at church - so, he's still in the limelight. It's just a different kind.

Scott is terrific and it's nice to know that other people appreciate him too! I will let him know that you are trying to reach him, as well as, others. If you don't hear back from him, please feel to write at this address again.

Sincerely,
Karen Goodhart

It looks like he's a-ok but decided to disengage from the online world.  It is truly sad since he always had such great content to share and was a joy to have around.  I'm just glad to be sure he is alright in the real world.  I can live with him going offline if that's what makes him happy.  :)
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2009 01:16 am CST »
Got a similar message from Karen:
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Hi Josh,

Yes, it's the same Slorge. I just sent a note to Geoff to let him know that Scott is fine. He just made some major changes in his life, and he did them quickly.

I'll check this evening when he's home from work about his email, but I believe he still has the same account. I just don't know if he's using it. I will let him know that everyone is writing and will pass your email along.

Thank you for your concern, and if I can help with anything else, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Karen Goodhart

Glad to know he's alright.
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Re: Where is Slorge Gridlock?
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2009 10:21 am CST »
It feels good to have solved this mystery.  It makes me wonder:  If I disappeared would the people I left behind care enough to start an investigation like we did for Slorge?  Probably not.  I should try to be more like him.  He's obviously changing people's lives for the better.
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