THE ENDING

After the Golden Age (Helen_Wheels's, then Waldo's reigns), the IMDb's F9/11 board had sunk under the influence of a kind of incontinent David Koresh, who promoted a kind of fusional Hug Mafia sharing his worldview and drowned the rest under the sheer number of his posts. David was a great guy and an awful closet tyrant. Like Mike, he had common sense and spoke the truth. Like Bush, he was unfit for command.

When it came to pass that David moved "his peeps" to a promised Wonderland with "no rules" and "relaxed discussions", one of the guys more equal than the others pre-emptively excluded me from where I would never have gone. I then insisted that David and his tree huggers either admitted to being a nepotistic tyranny, either changed it to something healthier.

But, as one of the "peeps" pointed out to me, after all, everybody had condoned this regime. And, when one of my oldest pals - a companion of Kopel debunking - came to insult me from nowhere with David's worldview, I saw that time had come to move on and leave the board to an indistinct Bored Crowd and people I still liked but could no longer respect.

Bitter ? In the heat of the moment, yeah, hell, I was. But, all in all, it quickly passed. After all, things will wear out and decay. I've been part of the epic. That's life. And then, the friends I really cared about stayed by me. And THAT's great news. :-)