Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:12:08 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232838#Comment_232838 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232838#Comment_232838 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:57:21 -0700 warrenellis
It's a little altered in its running from the original columns, but it's all there.

If you buy it, let me know, and tell me what you think.

(Especially if you didn't read the columns online first!) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232950#Comment_232950 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232950#Comment_232950 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:07:11 -0700 ramenpreacher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232955#Comment_232955 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232955#Comment_232955 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:18:27 -0700 Dickey
Thanks for the series though, it's been a fun read and re-read. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232956#Comment_232956 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232956#Comment_232956 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:21:34 -0700 rickiep00h
I almost bought it at c2e2 to have Jacen sign it, but decided against the expense since it was winging its way to my shop. (Yes, yes, $7 is a huge expense, I know. Shut up.)

In any case, expect comments later this week. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232958#Comment_232958 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232958#Comment_232958 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:27:15 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232974#Comment_232974 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232974#Comment_232974 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:23:16 -0700 Mark Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232993#Comment_232993 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232993#Comment_232993 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:15:10 -0700 David Matthew
(Also, older version of this thread HERE.) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232996#Comment_232996 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=232996#Comment_232996 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:45:28 -0700 SJD
-SJD ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233092#Comment_233092 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233092#Comment_233092 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:43:42 -0700 sleemo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233198#Comment_233198 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233198#Comment_233198 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:19:47 -0700 SIRUS http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233201#Comment_233201 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233201#Comment_233201 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:55:01 -0700 James Cunningham
-edit- And I'd love an annotated version. Admitted, it would boost the page count from 48 to 300, easy, and would require a music CD to go with it, but it'd be worth it. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233215#Comment_233215 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233215#Comment_233215 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:26:00 -0700 Jay Kay http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233272#Comment_233272 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233272#Comment_233272 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:26:08 -0700 warrenellis i just checked out the Alex Toth critique. MY GOD

I know, right? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233287#Comment_233287 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233287#Comment_233287 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:45:55 -0700 MagicSword!
Was Do Anything ever offered as POD like Shivering Sands, or was it straight to the direct market through Avatar? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233311#Comment_233311 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233311#Comment_233311 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:27:17 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233315#Comment_233315 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233315#Comment_233315 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:40:50 -0700 epalicki http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233370#Comment_233370 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233370#Comment_233370 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:49:52 -0700 Alan Hess If anything comes off as rude, I apologize and want to say I don’t mean it as such. I think I’m hypersensitive about offending someone after reading about the Toth critique.

I was a bit surprised by your portrayal of Stan Lee. Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey really tore into him in the fourth issue of Comic Book Comics and I was kind of expecting a similar treatment since you have Kirby’s head front and center. Maybe it’s just because I didn’t see an artist draw Kirby’s angry face. Had Jacen Burrows drawn Jack Kirby yelling at the top of his lungs, I might have gotten the same impression.
You make the early Marvel method of writing comics seem much more appropriate, while CBC gave the impression that only the collaborators (namely Ditko and Kirby) actually knew how to tell stories.
I was surprised with CBC because I would have figured Van Lente, having worked so much for Marvel and now being a “Marvel exclusive,” would be much more reticent to criticize Lee.

I also feel kind of weird that I didn’t take the time to sit down and read these online, but I gladly picked it up for $6. I guess it is true what they say about eye strain with computer screens. Also, I could read the book version and put it on my nightstand before I went to bed, whereas lugging my laptop through the house would have been less practical.
I’ve recently been getting a friend into comics. I lent him Nightly News, Pax Romana and some stuff like Civil War and Ultimates to give him an idea of how Marvel functions. He, like I, enjoyed Pax Romana the most. This collection of essays would also be a cool thing to lend to help him get a better idea of comics in general.
And while I’m mentioning Pax Romana, does anyone know about anything else in a similar vein? I’ve got almost all of Hickman’s other stuff, and SHIELD is the closest to it. The Kipling issue of the Unwritten is very different but was intellectually stimulating in a similar way. I picked up Joe Casey’s Wildcats 3.0 last week and haven’t gotten to them quite yet. I guess I’m looking for a mix of politics (with focuses on empires, economics, and history) and sci-fi.

Personally, I really enjoyed the essays and was glad to have them in a more portable form. I’d really love to see this as a series but a bunch of different writers. Any chance for any collaborations with other authors? Something like what Brubaker does with Criminal and have a bunch of guests come in and write essays?
I mentioned a love for Hickman above, and I’ve seen him do some Concentric Circles columns on iFanboy. He has cool notes in the back of Nightly News, but I’d love to see him do a book of essays.
Of course, don’t take this to mean that I don’t want to see more from you. I might not have read them online because they were all done and didn’t take the time just to sit down and read them. Are you still doing a weekly column? I’d read them if it were a weekly item in my RSS feeder.
And this is not a complaint, but some of those asides/digressions were insanely long. Namely #9. I actually laughed when I had to go back and find where the digression started. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233524#Comment_233524 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233524#Comment_233524 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:09:59 -0700 Jay Kay http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233939#Comment_233939 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233939#Comment_233939 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:05:39 -0700 sleemo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233948#Comment_233948 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233948#Comment_233948 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:49:06 -0700 rickiep00h
I mean, I realize that the web is just a bunch of connections, but within a single work it's a lot easier for me to navigate. For some reason. Maybe it's because it forces me to focus. I don't know.

The quality of the book itself is okay. I like the graphic design, but the book itself seems a bit on the thin side compared to, say, your novellas. I always felt like it was going to fall apart or I was going to break the spine and pages would start falling out. But really, that's my only complaint.

Still looking forward to Do Anything 2: Possibly One of the Things Mentioned in Do Anything 1, but More Likely Something Completely Different. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233956#Comment_233956 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233956#Comment_233956 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:15:38 -0700 sleemo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233962#Comment_233962 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=233962#Comment_233962 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:38:36 -0700 Jeff P.
Style-wise, I was faintly reminded of one of Alan Moore's history-hopping spoken word CDs, which is a good thing. It also seemed to be a continuation of the path of Crecy and Frankenstein's Womb: a train of thought mounted on a rigid structure. My favorite aspect was that, even when delving through several layers of causal references, it always felt as if we were moving towards something, some conclusion or endgame. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234221#Comment_234221 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234221#Comment_234221 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:54:41 -0700 St.Wanger http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234258#Comment_234258 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234258#Comment_234258 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:56:48 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234270#Comment_234270 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234270#Comment_234270 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:50:58 -0700 kperkins http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234296#Comment_234296 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234296#Comment_234296 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:00:03 -0700 warrenellis
Khepri.com will have it, I'm sure.

CORRECTION: Khepri don't have DO ANYTHING either. What the fuck? ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234298#Comment_234298 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234298#Comment_234298 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:07:31 -0700 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234311#Comment_234311 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234311#Comment_234311 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:15:21 -0700 Karmadrome
The thing I really loved about the book is that I found myself making notes to get more information on something you'd written on just about every page. Books that are informative but don't leave you with any questions at the end are nice, but it's a lot more fun to learn something about how much more you have to learn.

Yeah, well worth my (whatever I paid for it, I didn't even look at the price). ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234321#Comment_234321 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234321#Comment_234321 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:47:18 -0700 Dickey
Your approach to the history of comics as a history of connections is quite brilliant too. It has gotten me to reexamine some of my approach to historiography, so maybe you can provide me with a springboard to eventually say something novel in my own field. Someday in the future at least.

I want to close by thanking you for one of the most beautiful long-form sentences I have ever seen. At the end (I believe page 47) you managed to compose a nicely sized paragraph on Bowie, Eno, and Moore playing music, discovering comics, and doing anything that is one of the most breathless and masterfully wordy sentences I have had the pleasure of reading. And you do it without me bitching about running on, as I do whenever I read academic shite like Edward Said. So bravo, that one combination of words and ideas has sold a few friends on picking this collection up. (Forgive the incoherence of all this, my brain is fucked today) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234442#Comment_234442 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234442#Comment_234442 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:51:02 -0700 Dan Kelly
Not sure what they'll be doing with last weeks stuff once tomorrows arrives... they may have to rotate stuff to the "normal" shelve quite quickly... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234930#Comment_234930 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=234930#Comment_234930 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:52:46 -0700 nigredo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235053#Comment_235053 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235053#Comment_235053 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:14:10 -0700 sarianlives these arrived each lunchtime on my break, with a satisfying plop through the heathen letterbox, that usually only brings me bills or arguments from British Gas...

for once, my letterbox likes me, and i am rather fond of it....

BEHOLD!!!!




(arse eels just out of shot)

and just for good measure... i just polished this off once again, whilst having another poo...
The highest of reading honours... Poo reading is second only to long hot bath reading in satisfying reading honours...



I also just lent the entire TRANSMETROPOLITAN run to my guitarist, telling him to pay special attention to NO ONE TOUCH THAT DOG... panel.. and challenged him to FREE STEVE CHUNG count off, and i will give him beer if he is correct with the totla amount it appears...

Ladies and Gentlemen...
Please excuse me whilst i get my Ellis on...

Its going to be a GOOD weekend.

SLx ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235055#Comment_235055 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235055#Comment_235055 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:15:49 -0700 sarianlives




No matter how much you keep asking...
; )

SLx ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235139#Comment_235139 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235139#Comment_235139 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:38:41 -0700 The_Toxo_Zombie
Since it is called "Volume 1" I assume there will be more? Please please say there will be more. And please let it actually be about Harlan Ellison's sentient kitchen table. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235143#Comment_235143 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235143#Comment_235143 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:50:20 -0700 David Matthew http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235228#Comment_235228 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235228#Comment_235228 Sat, 01 May 2010 10:10:03 -0700 Cat Vincent
As a read - inspirational, even more so than on the instalment plan. Not so much on comics specifically - though I love how my understanding of the Anglophone medium got upgraded between reading Do Anything and Googling the various parts I didn't know - but the presentation of the connectivity of ideas there touches on a whole bunch of things I've been trying to write about in semi-coherent fashion (including my next Weaponizer bit). The spirit of James Burke is clearly alive and well! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235231#Comment_235231 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235231#Comment_235231 Sat, 01 May 2010 10:20:54 -0700 icelandbob


I enjoyed the instalments on the site. It will be good to read them again this weekend... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235629#Comment_235629 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=235629#Comment_235629 Sun, 02 May 2010 23:54:11 -0700 St.Wanger Does Amazon.de not have it?

No, it doesn't. Weird thing is: There's kind of an entry for it:
http://www.amazon.de/Do-Anything-1-Warren-Ellis/dp/1592911056/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1272869469&sr=1-1
but it isn't in stock or available by any marketplace retailer ...

My local comic book store didn't get it either (and there's lots of the Avatar stuff comin' in, normally) ... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=236107#Comment_236107 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=236107#Comment_236107 Tue, 04 May 2010 21:26:04 -0700 Mark Seifert
]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=236477#Comment_236477 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=236477#Comment_236477 Thu, 06 May 2010 11:50:31 -0700 St.Wanger http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237171#Comment_237171 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237171#Comment_237171 Sat, 08 May 2010 02:18:59 -0700 jeremiah http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237177#Comment_237177 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237177#Comment_237177 Sat, 08 May 2010 05:30:43 -0700 warrenellis I didn't know a lot of the comic/creators you referenced and some of the ones I did know of, I hadn't read much of their stuff. I will probably have to google

Kind of the point. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237182#Comment_237182 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237182#Comment_237182 Sat, 08 May 2010 07:48:12 -0700 paribolzi It's a thought that leads naturally to paranoia. OMG AVATAR N WARRENELLIS R WATCHING ME ON INTERNETS ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237203#Comment_237203 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237203#Comment_237203 Sat, 08 May 2010 11:44:33 -0700 Mark Seifert OMG AVATAR N WARRENELLIS R WATCHING ME ON INTERNETS
Count on it. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237387#Comment_237387 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=237387#Comment_237387 Sun, 09 May 2010 18:14:10 -0700 Casey Moore http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240558#Comment_240558 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240558#Comment_240558 Tue, 25 May 2010 00:02:46 -0700 stsparky
And you were right about the Gil Kane response I wrote. Oddest thing about Blackmark is how crisp it is even now. Can you eye which assistant did what? I think I see Neal Adam's inks in the throne scene ... ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240589#Comment_240589 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240589#Comment_240589 Tue, 25 May 2010 05:53:40 -0700 Flabyo
For some reason it wasn't in their till system, so the shop got to hear someone asking over the tannoy system if anyone know how much 'Warren Ellis' Do Anything' costs... Hehe.

Other than that I'd just be repeating what everyone else here has said, that the connections flow better in this form than as a weekly column, and that a wander around wikipedia is probably in my near future.

Someone needs to write something like this about the history of videogames, all the gaming history stuff I've read tends to be really dry and full of the 'official' line. No sign of the actual people. Maybe it's just a little too early for gaming for that kind of writing. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240854#Comment_240854 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=240854#Comment_240854 Wed, 26 May 2010 15:03:00 -0700 warrenellis For some reason it wasn't in their till system, so the shop got to hear someone asking over the tannoy system if anyone know how much 'Warren Ellis' Do Anything' costs... Hehe.


hahahah ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257507#Comment_257507 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257507#Comment_257507 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:21:14 -0700 Professor Imagine
Incidentally, my Comic Guy's official pitch: "Even if you're a fan of the guy [warren] already, your respect for him will only increase after reading this. I had no idea he was into so much shit and so knowledgeable. I see why you read so much of his stuff now."

High praise indeed from those out in the trenches peddling the products of your craft. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257594#Comment_257594 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257594#Comment_257594 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:59:14 -0700 Professor Imagine
This info-dense prose should be a model for a future in which, rather than a PC, a robot-head in every home, download your heroes (or villains) and engage in essential dialogs to suss out the true meaning of your attachments to one artform or historical entity/era, or style over another. the central conceit of the robot-head of jack kirby (as well as the... quantum narrative as we jump between points in space and time, all moments happening at once, forever entangled by these 48 pages) makes this much more of an interactive and participatory history lesson than it otherwise may have been. and of course, the pivot point of 1963 and the TARDIS [wvromp, wvromp, wvromping] through the narrative definitely makes this more of an adventure tale through the comics equivalent of the time vortex, with Warren Ellis as The Doctor (The Nth Doctor), and we, the reader, as the naive and ignorant companion visiting Planet Druillet or the Braxton Galactic Music System.

(also, as a side note: the mention of Dan O'Neill, a new absolute favorite of mine, whose work I've only just discovered in Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic. When attempting to turn anyone on to the mag, I start with Dan's pinups. From issue #1, my mind has been turned inside out, exploded, and orgasmed entirely in the span of a single page.)

big fan of the parentheticals. that one paragraph, in the Superman section, pg 27: "Comics weren't just about Superman (... ...) even then." YES. Thank you. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257608#Comment_257608 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=8102&Focus=257608#Comment_257608 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:37:28 -0700 Professor Imagine "...maybe, writing about comics can be music too." yeah. I think this book is really rather brilliant, at least as brilliant as half the things you wrote about in it. now I'm stuck trying to think of ways to make people read it. and, most importantly, now I'm inspired. I'm gonna go see if I can do anything. ]]>