He is really busy at the moment, but I may well get his revised draft back sometime tomorrow. As soon as I get it I'll post it in the WCC forum.

We are really counting on you to give this a good final going over, and for more than one reason.

This is the first edit that Daniel will see, and we need it to be a flagship effort.

More specifically, I do not want the <CG Librarian> to be style editing anything we have worked on.

Why? I don't know her. I don't know where she has been. I have no idea whether she can style edit or not.

But I know you can style edit. I need to show Daniel, not just tell him, that you are all the style editor we need or want.

I have a nightmare vision of thousands of man hours of your lean, concise, eminently logical and readable style savaged by somebody we don't even know.

Perhaps I sound overly dramatic here. But I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.

I may be hysterical, but I think I know how to present our case to Daniel. You already gave us the ideal content and tone in your template letter. I won't be demanding to see the CG Librarian's resume. This might be funny in a movie, but it's not going to help us get what we want.

I don't speak to Daniel the same way I post in our forums.

One of the things I like best about Daniel is he doesn't actually read the posts in our forums.

He has said he doesn't, on numerous occasions, and I believe him. And I think it's more that "just because he doesn't have the time"- although clearly he doesn't- I suspect it also has something to do with his philosophy of running this website.

He not only gives us a great deal of "free speech" latitude, but I think Daniel's style gives us even more- a kind of limited, but real, "expectation of privacy" from the admins in our forum conversations.

I know he doesn't plug his name into the search box to find out what the "forums" are saying about him.

He's kind of the opposite of Stalin in that respect.

I was thinking a little Camomille Tea laced with dramamine?

I'm editing a draft for <Alekhine-Bogoljubov 1934>, and every time I re-read what I wrote, I hear this little voice "What would Ohio say." Actually it's not your voice I hear, it's your avatar I see in my mind. Literally.

Despite this spooky phenomenon (possibly I should stop watching horror films every night until 4am), you have taught me to write much leaner prose, and I thank you for that.

I look forward to future lessons in the very near future.

I'd like you to give it a thorough <Ohioization> if and when you have time/inclination.

yrs truly

I guess you're pretty excited about the new <World vs. Andy Williams> game eh?

I hope you enjoy every minute of it. One hopes for more "parody songs," but I suppose the <Nat and Pat> game offered the best opportunity for such fare.

They did get mentioned in <Howard the Wonder Hedgehog's> prize winning article on <The World vs. NN> though.

At any rate a serious issue brings me here.

QUESTION: Can <Anti-Screwhead> be considered a legitimate music genre?

It gets my vote, but so far I'm the only one who has voted.

Here is a fine <Anti-Screwhead> performance to help you enjoy the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMPe...

Excellent sir, excellent. In such form I think some parodies are in the offing?

You know how welcome you are in the editor's booth, but I wasn't fishing to bring you home.

I know you will decide when and what to target next, and I see you've recently been active on other site editing projects as well as ours.

The first, and still the best, Elvis Impersonator:

Here is <Wim Mertens> track I am listening to a lot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QSR...

"Anti-Screwhead" or not? I need to know.

If you notice me curiously dropping the "a" and "the" out of sentences it's because of six years of doing it in daily speech here in Korea. I recently noticed this habit is infecting my writing as well.

Like magic, if you include the articles in your sentence, no Korean will understand you. But if you leave them out, they have no problem.

Hey, they are confusing eh?