I don't write professionally and Severn's my real first name.

A lot of what I write is in the context of reacting to others, and I wouldn't begin to know how to properly frame it. Thanks for the praise, but this is Bruce's thread, and I'm just having some fun on it, not trying to hijack it or grab someone else's glory.

I suppose if you click the name Severn atop one of my posts, you can view several thousand of them and with a few more clicks, put them in each one's individual context. However, Mudcat Taverns and foodfights and unsung cartoon heroes and such involve me interacting with some world class accomplices who are putting out stuff just as good inspred by what everybody else is doing and it all builds as a community thing. It would be hard to isolate from other contributors and to explain a lot of interCat in-jokes, and launch myself on an ego trip I don't seek to pick out and edit a "best of Severn", the precedent of Van Morrison once having produced his own Tribute Album notwithstanding.

Sorry folks, but I don't feel I'm publisher ready yet, by any stretch....


But there IS this Magenta gent out there who actually copyrights things and, thinking that purple is the color of royalties, tries to make money from his hidden talents (and rather obvious hue). And ironically enough, the more you people try to cover his works, the more you'll end up exposing them to the public.

After all, the definition of a singer-songwriter is:

One who risks being called a Communist for excercising the freedom of speech guaranteed by a Democracy to defy the Dictatorship* of popular tastes with the end goal of achieving and perpetuating Royalties.


......and if that's not Capitalism, then what is?






*And a Facist IS someone who has decided for everybody else what's in fashion, isn't it?