Why I oughta....

Don't you get it, GUEST? By flaming one of our friends instead of making a general comment about folk music styles, you have negated any hope of having your point of view taken seriously here? IT NO LONGER MATTERS what you were trying to say, we are now obliged to gnaw off your ankles. Roll down your socks, please. No, I'm serious. Fine. I'll bite through your trousers....

Okay, so if Dave were here he would invoke his paternal side and convince me not to post (And let me say, it's a FINE day when a guy in fishnets and half a gorilla suit becomes the voice of reason in a household...) But he's off pulling fat ladies out of trees today, and I'm free to overreact unrestrained to mindless drivel such as this.

He's succeeded in convincing me to take the high road many times in the past, but I'm sitting here thinking...If someone just took a pot-shot at me in a thread, would my friends have kept quiet? Would Mick have been his better self, or Catspaw showed restraint as befits his status? Would Katscratching or WylieWoman or Beat'emwithaBanjoBonnie not have gotten up on their hind legs and formed a posse? So why should I show restraint and let this insult pass?

No matter what kind of musician Rick is, we'd have defended him because you attacked him, and because we love him. As it is, you didn't choose to resurrect a post and comment about your difference of opinion with the definition of a genre, you started a new thread specifically to insult someone who is respected and cared about around here.

And because of that-- AND THIS IS THE POINT-- because you approached the subject the way you did, a point of discussion that could have been interesting has become meaningless. Let's talk about oral tradition. Let's debate about folk music and it's various incarnations. Let's discuss diverse opinions and perspectives-- but please, handle it in a way that leaves out personal references to Mothers, Sisters, and Friends.

Guilty of crossing the street to pee on a flamer,

pj

p.s. Peter T., you are the Wind Beneath My Wings.