I posted there before the Buffy thread got to be active, and one summer they all sent me postcards at sleepaway camp.

CoseyMo told me about that and I thought it was the cutest thing on earth.

Miss Cosey, too. Should try to track her down.

Jesse, FTR:

Consistent demon-like behavior may earn a warning from the Stompy Feet.

This should say a warning from the community, or something -- because the Stompy Feet aren't the ones who decide this.

We're the only ones that can post a warning, although we don't just pull them out of our (lovely) asses.

Christine Edgar works in the same office as my DH. She's doing great, and her daughter is a gorgeous kid.

Good point, ita, but a person who didn't know that wouldn't know. If you see what I'm saying. There's no obvious thing saying that it isn't the Feets making the decision.

This is making me long for the days of TT's Book Sluts and Literary Lounge Lizards thread.

I was a hardcore lurker/semi-poster in the Eggers/Mcsweeney's thread which was just so full of funny brilliant people it was frightening. You would read a post and the next day it would be the daily entry on the Mcsweeney's page.

To this day I have my favorite TT post ever written (it's about politics) on a stickie on my desktop. I'm glad I saved it but I cannot believe I forgot to make a note of who wrote it.

Uhm. Yeah....Off to look at that pesky ol FAQ.

You know, listening to the TT talk, it makes me feel young, as I delurked during Buffy 5 on TT and often feel like an old-timer.

Of course, I was just talking to a student of mine who had assumes I was over 40 when in reality I am just 30, so I like feeling young.

Yay those of you who have the energy to do updates to the FAQ and etiquiette! I wish I had timeto help.

I lurked on the first Buffy thread, as I recall.

tina, if you transcribed it I bet one of us would recognize the post, or at least the writer's style.

And Susan, that's great to hear about Christine.

There's no obvious thing saying that it isn't the Feets making the decision.

I'm not saying the current wording is good (unless it's spelled out repreatedly elsewhere that the Stompies are merely enforcers of community will). Both points are important. Allyson can't post a warning, and I can't make one up.

if you transcribed it I bet one of us would recognize the post, or at least the writer's style.

But it's not from the buffy threads - I think it's from the Florida threads during the election chaos.

But - reading it now I really couldn't tell you why it's my favorite - it's much loftier than what I usually enjoy but it just struck me as kind of wise:

Politics, the aesthetics of mass organization, will never make anyone happy (with the possible exception of politicians), it can only make things "less worse." Culture and art, consistently make individuals happy, but can never change the world. The key is for each of us to be engaged in each. In politics because we are members of a group and sub-groups and are biologically indistinct. In art because our minds are, in their darkest hours, alone and discreet. Politics because our selves are meaningless, Art because, in spite of that, they are all we have. We are molecules held together by the tension of wanting to collapse in on ourselves and the opposing desire to spin-off as far from ourselves as possible.