When I first saw this thread, it looked like the perfect place to post the announcement that I was three days into a cold-turkey withdrawal from Zoloft. Then I got interested, first in the discussion of the collection, then in "Gargoyle's elf" complaining that the thread wasn't labeled B.S.--before I had read Catspaw's message I was thinking how much I hated the B.S. designation and my determination never to use it in a thread title again unless commenting on fertilizer of a bovine origin, and my response was much the same as Catspaw's, but I came here much too late to beat Spaw to the punch--and, I'm rather certain, I would have equivocated a bit more than Spaw did--I might have commented that Gargoyle doesn't have elves--Santa he ain't, and please take your B.S. and spread it on your strawberries (I prefer sugar and whipped cream on mine).

As things moved along and we got back to the tired old argument about what was happening to the Mudcat and came to remarks about the hostile attitude that seems to rear its ugly head from time to time, I wanted to scream that execpt for transitory political arguments that turned tendentious and postings from occasional hit-and-run flamers, the bad feelings which have driven some away from here originated with {one of} those who wanted to exclude all content which failed to meet their standard of acceptability. Admittedly, some of us who were targets of the hostility returned it, but to blame the changed atmosphere of the Mudcat on people who enjoy the company of others here as well as the music we share is the real bull shit.

--seed