On Tuesday, 12 October 2004, at 14:49:59, Johnny Wildseed wrote: In light of the impending volcanic doom of the Seattle metropolitan area, you all need to depart from Ballard as soon as humanly possible to come join Us and chant for world peace (through the enlightenment of the Bible Belt) here athwart the very roofbeam of Our much-molested continent. Times have grown difficult enough that We're even accepting the morally cheesey--upon the condition of their sincere repentance, and a pledge signed in their own loathesomely-compromised blood to chant AT LEAST an hour a day for the rest of their natural lives on behalf of the enlightenment of the Bible Belt in all its misguided wretchedness. (Foot-kissing of the Immaculatus is optional, but highly recommended in hardened cases.) By no means was the moniker "Land of Enchantment" gratuitously applied to New Mexico! Moreover, the gracious, if sinuously archaic cranes already begin to gather in frenzied droves amidst the sand hills of the Bosque del Apache. It behooves the ragtag lot of you, as well, to "Come"--as was sung of old and in whatever form of modern conveyance seems most convincingly dependable--"to the church in the wildwood. . . ."