So many vendors make a huge splash in here for a while, presumably solidify their fanbase, and all but disappear from the headlines. Highbrow is still mentioned fairly frequently, and truly deserves to be - great stuff. Kickbass is a great line, especially if you love bakery and sweets, and you'd never find more gracious, fun and conscientious folks than yssiM and boB - very much a step up from those who are wanting to move on from Ms T. et alia. Really delicious juice. I think of so many more, some already mentioned in this thread - I'm always wishing that newbies who are promoting very eh generic mass-produced dekangy 'bargains' to fellow newbies would peruse the archives in here and rediscover some of the excellent long-standing vendors out there.
On the other hand, some (not all) of the latest stars are really unsurpassably excellent. Well, one is. IMHO. And everybody's having a good time still.
Mr Mann said somewhere that he's a juice person, not a mod person (did I get that right, dearheart?). That's where all the fun is for me, too. I get no charge from rebuilding atties and searching the forum for the least leaky of the newest frequently-leaky atty systems or fiddling with various twiddly combos that yield the same basic voltage, or dremels and kickers and all - but juice? Oh, that never gets old. But then, I'd drink good wine from a jelly jar, I don't care.
I'm jealous of the tobacco-flavor folks because that's where the liveliest new action is.
Am I allowed to ramble like this at 2AM, just because I feel too contented with life to waste the small hours on sleep?