i chuckle everytime bowerbird chirps. he believes no one heeds his golden wisdom. after all, bowerbird knows everything. he is always right. we are the stupid ones. he alone knows what's best for us. he is above us all. he is god. in his own words, bowerbird admits his purpose in posting to listserves: http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/090704.pdf "even though he obviously can't get anything to work well himself, bowerbird nonetheless seems to have absolutely no difficulty in butting in and telling other people what _they_ should be doing. since he started doing performance poetry, he has been telling los angeles poetry producers that they should try to concentrate the community's resources rather than diluting its critical mass. absolutely no one ever listened to him. (or realize he was right.) for years he was a thorn in the national slam family, using their own listserve (which he had helped bring about and make a success) to tell them exactly what they were doing wrong. in explicit detail. with convincing argument after convincing argument. day after day. until they had no choice but to ban him from the listserve, thereby fully demonstrating the depth of their commitment to free speech. that wasn't the first listserve from which bowerbird has been banned. and it probably won't be the last either... some people just never learn. even though (as is clearly evidenced here), once he actually gets going, it is extremely difficult to shut him up, it nonetheless remains true that bowerbird is very uncomfortable talking about himself in the third person -- which is why he rarely writes a bio -- so he will stop doing that now, and he will go have a sandwich because he is kind of hungry right now..." so bowerbird got kicked off a listserve he helped create?! oh! the injustice of it all. if they only knew he was there to lift them from oblivion. -- Dale Reese dalereese@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web