Well, somewhere in the last batch of 5,000 posts at tafultong's blog, someone posted
that NIR-PWR had become a series of love letters between iameye and myself.
That remark caught me totally off guard, because I have also struggled with the nebulousity (?)
of her posts, and er-uh, have been a bit catty about them myself, as you may have recently noticed.
When I unexpectedly found myself in the presence of
a roaring lioness as a consequence,
it began to dawn on me that perhaps it might have been just a little bit better for me
to have - um - how can I put this?
Let's put it this way:
She's trying to make a point, and the end of a claw, or a fang, isn't the way you really
want to find this out. So she's trying to do what she can, but - for her - dealing with us is
a bit like dealing with the mentally challenged, at times. So she tries to break things down
into bite-size pieces. But you don't want to be one of them! ;D
As for myself, I try to use a conversational approach when I post things, but that can
be a lot of work just to make a point.
I hasten to say that my input is limited by what areas I have some knowledge of.
There are many Beatles experts out there who know far more than I do regarding them.
My presence here has been driven by two things, mainly.
1. My feeling that there has to be someone here, minding the store, as it were.
I may not be a Beatles expert, but if someone comes to the forum, and wants to know
if thus and such a topic has been discussed, I feel that I can sometimes help in that regard.
2. The feeling that "there's something here". When I heard about the possibility of Paul
being dead, listening to WABC back in October of 1969, it gripped me just as hard as the Kennedy
assassination had. I sensed that something meaningful was afoot, even if I didn't know why.
When people would say, "Oh, those Beatles! They pulled a clever little joke on us to sell records!"
I'd want to grab them by the shirt, and say, "No, it goes deeper than that!"
but I had nothing to go on, other than a gut feeling.
And as time passed, the whole thing went on the back burner, but it never went away.
So when I came across 60IF/TKIN, my obsession was born again, because now
there was a way to compare notes that didn't exist in 1969.
And so you poor people have been stuck with me ever since.
But I'm here to tell you now, that there
is something here.
Something as big as anything you think is big, it's that big! Or bigger!
Yes, huge, I would say, so try to hang in there.
Because what it is, is YOU!
Trust me.