Amos, I love your thoughts on this, as always. If it wasn't for your unfortunate and inexplicable antipathy to William Shatner, I would recommend you as "Man of the Year".]

Clinton, you are so much yourself that it is impossible to think of anyone else playing your part effectively. :-) Look, sing a memorial song for me at your next show, okay? Something appropriate. I leave it to you to decide which song would be just right for that. Dylan would be nice.

And those of you who were genuinely upset...HEY, I would have been too if I wasn't already me and didn't know better. It's nice to know that you care. I appreciate that. Raptor left a phone message this morning that he had "bumped me off on Mudcat for April Fool's Day". I laughed, and thought, "What an *sshole! Bet he's gonna catch hell for it too." Typical. Just typical.

I do not hope to live until 2096. I hate getting old, and that would just be too damned old for toleration! Spare me the experience, unless someone can find me a fountain of youth somewhere.