Motivated by my dismay to find the threads down again on Sunday, I went to my word processor and started banging out my "Missing the Mudcat Blues." The first three verses came easily, but I couldn't remember enough names to finish it--luckily, although I couldn't call up any postings, at least the names of the members posting came up, so after i went back and got a bunch more names, I was able to crank out the song, which I posted that evening, but stupidly omitting the the and the quotes in the title. Missing Mudcat blues doesn't quite convey a] that it is a song and b] that it is about times without the 'cat.

I hope that there is enough content here on the process of writing it that it won't seem too much like mere shameless self-promotion, but I do hope you'll check it out. It's at least mildly amusing. --seed