Actually, my mother died on June 24th (not July)--which explains my absence from Old Songs.

Rita Ferrara and I plan to get together on Sunday, July 10th, and engineer a new thread containing registration form linkages and other important information, which will be edited and kept to actual news and logistics. We're going to make it cross-listed to this thread, which is where the banter can remain, and we'll be editing the other thread to keep the banter here and not there.

Given the html coding involved in cross-referencing the two threads, I want her editorial skills to make sure I've got everything right.

--Charlie Baum